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 3 March 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

The Impact of Brexit and Covid

I’m fed up with having to live a different life to the one I want to live. I share snapshots of what's going on in…
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Date 2 March 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

A Denis Waitely quote

Something inspirational: "Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and…
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Date 1 March 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Mental Health: Why Is It Being Ignored?

Why Do We Keep Ignoring Mental Health? Mental health isn't bound by age, colour or creed. It is essential to the human experience and yet…
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Date 28 February 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Spicy Chocolate Orange Fondue

Cheese Fondue Ingredients 300ml/ 1 pint white wine 1 tsp lemon juice 225g/8oz Emmental cheese grated 225g/8oz gruyere cheese grated 1 tsp cornflour 1 tbsp…
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Date 27 February 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Aaron Lauritsen

Something inspirational: “There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a force…
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Date 26 February 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

The Past Doesn't Stay in the Past

The past doesn’t stay in the past. Around mental health, If there’s something you have struggled with that you haven't dealt with, rest assured, it…
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Date 25 February 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Benefits of Getting Active In Middle Age

A new study suggests that if you're over 40, regular exercise may not just keep you fit, but it may also keep you out of…
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Date 24 February 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Coping with Loss and Grief

Watching someone close to you decline is difficult enough, not understanding their decline is harder. But even if you know and you slowly prepare yourself,…
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Date 23 February 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

A Virgin River quote

Something true: "Doing the right thing doesn’t make you special, it makes you a decent human being." JACK SHERIDAN, Virgin River
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Date 22 February 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

The Importance of Understanding Others' Reality

When it comes to Covid, not all our immune responses will mirror the exact same response even if were to catch it twice, or we…
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Date 21 February 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

What does it feel like to lose someone?

Death is part of life. It's the part of life we tend not to talk about. But it's there, it's something we all get to…
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Date 20 February 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Still Unwell

It's now 20 days into February and I am still not feeling like I did pre-Covid. Poorly from the first week in December with Covid,…
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