Ilana Estelle

Position:

Author & Writer

Awards / Certifications:

  • Dip. Counselling (OCODL)
  • Dip. Diet and Nutrition (Distinction) (OCODL)
  • Dip. Nutritional Therapy (Distinction) (OCODL)
  • S.N.H.S. Dip. (Stress Management)
  • S.N.H.S. Dip. (Psychotherapy & Counselling)

About the author:

Ilana Estelle is a mental health and wellbeing advocate who combines educational insight with her personal experience of living with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities. She holds diplomas in Counselling, Diet and Nutrition, Nutritional Therapy, Psychotherapy and Counselling, and Stress Management. Through her writing, Ilana supports others in navigating their emotional, mental, and physical health challenges. In addition to writing for The CP Diary, her work has appeared in healthy lifestyle magazines. Ilana is also the author of three books: Cerebral Palsy: A Story – Finding the Calm After the Storm, Spirituality, Healing and Me, and Survival: The Covid Years – Time for Change.

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Blogs by Ilana Estelle

Date 22 September 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Mental and Emotional Health Blog

The CP Diary is where I get to deal with my thoughts and feelings, it's a place where I get to talk about 'things.' It's…
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Date 21 September 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Valuing Nature and the Natural World

The CP Diary is a snapshot of the past, the present and the future, our future. We should be concerned about what will happen to…
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Date 20 September 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

A Mr Eko quote

Something inspirational: "I didn't ask for the life I was given but it was given nonetheless, and with it I did my best." MR EKO,…
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Date 19 September 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

The Creative Writing Industry

I first got into writing when I found out about cerebral palsy, for the first time at the age of 46. I started The CP…
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Date 18 September 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Everything Has Changed

With a disability I want to be able to go out like everyone else without the worry of being vulnerable. The pandemic has changed everything.…
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Date 17 September 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Covid-19 Lessons Not Being Learned

Social media should count, since it's the hub of conversation right now, particularly around Covid-19 and politics. Politicians aren't talking about or dealing with the…
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Date 16 September 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Marie Lu

Something inspirational: “Tell me there is still good in the world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us.” MARIE LU, Champion
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Date 15 September 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

An A C Grayling quote

Something inspirational: “It takes a certain ingenuous faith – but I have it – to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than…
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Date 14 September 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Disability, Discrimination and Exclusion

Generalisations about society's tolerance levels towards people with mental disabilities particularly during the pandemic may have varied from person to person and community to community.…
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Date 13 September 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Breakfast and a Child's Development

After a night's sleep, the first meal of the day is important to re-supply both the body and brain with necessary nutrients and energy. Why…
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Date 12 September 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

The CP Diary is the Pinnacle of Health

Pinnacle of health - "in humans, the extent of an individual's continuing physical, emotional, mental, and social ability to cope with his or her environment."…
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Date 11 September 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Cesar Millan

Something inspirational: “Dogs don't rationalise. They don't hold anything against the person. They don't see the outside of a human, but the inside of a…
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