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 8 April 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Covid Is Still Out There

Like 500k other people in the UK, (Google) I am still living in part isolation/shielding with no end in sight. For people like me, lockdown…
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Date 7 April 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Mental Health: Peel Back The Layers

How many of us really peel back the layers on our experiences, on our lives, how many of us really look at our past and…
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Date 6 April 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Alan D Smith

Something true: "Your unconscious mind is in continuous contact with the unconscious minds of all other currently living people and perhaps with all minds on…
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Date 5 April 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Disability Rights

At school I was invisible, nobody saw me. I morphed into the background, I wasn’t popular. I was ignored throughout my school life. Although my…
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Date 4 April 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Do the Work on Mental Health

‘A Decade of Change in Just 2 Years’ – UK Government The Covid-19 virus happened and mental health took a knock, not helped by some…
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Date 3 April 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Trigeminal Neuralgia

First it was Covid, then it was a cough and flu virus. Having gone for my routine check-up at the dentist it was confirmed there…
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Date 2 April 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

A Dolores Del Rio quote

Something inspirational: "Take care of your inner beauty, your spiritual beauty, and that will reflect in your face. We have the face we created over…
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Date 1 April 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

A George R R Martin quote

Something inspirational: “People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.” GEORGE R.R. MARTIN, A Clash of Kings
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Date 31 March 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Super Easy Cheese Muffins

Super Easy Cheese Muffins 'Adapted from justamumnz.com' Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups self-raising flour 1/2 tbs salt 1/2 tbs sugar substitute 2 cups low fat cheese…
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Date 30 March 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Khaled Hosseini

Something inspirational: “There is only one sin. and that is theft… when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.” KHALED HOSSEINI,…
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Date 29 March 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Mitigating the Effects of Personal Health

Covid-19 is the reason we should be dealing with mental health, but instead we are choosing to ignore mental health. It is rather remiss, considering…
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Date 28 March 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Newest Addition to the Family

As a child, my family acquired a couple of goldfish through the fair ground. I shudder at that, but it was my first introduction to…
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