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 14 January 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Learn to be a Support

When I tell others I have autism they usually say ‘sorry,' but you don't have to be sorry, it's what I get to deal with,…
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Date 13 January 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Mental Health Issues are Silent Killers

My mum used to say 'you only get one crack at life'. Following my cerebral palsy diagnosis at 46, I took up writing and 'took…
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Date 12 January 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

A Mary Baker Eddy quote

Something inspirational: “Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore, it cannot exist alone but requires all mankind to share it.”…
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Date 11 January 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

My Book Struggles

My first book, Cerebral Palsy: A Story ‘Finding the Calm After the Storm’ was published here in the UK the day news broke about the…
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Date 10 January 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

What Happens When You Eat Too Much

In Covid-19 we replaced 'things' with food. True for most of us in lockdown. But what happens when you eat too much. How it works…
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Date 9 January 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Facing Life Without My Twin

A few days into 2023, and I’m struggling to comprehend what has happened and where my personal life has taken me. I could never have…
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Date 8 January 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Why Destiny can't always be changed

Something inspirational: "One of the greatest awakenings comes when you realise that not everybody changes. Some people never change. And that’s their journey. It’s not…
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Date 7 January 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

No one is protected from Covid-19

If with or without the vaccine you can still catch and spread Covid, no one is protected from the virus. Also, with no precautionary measures…
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Date 6 January 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Common Misconceptions on Spirituality

Before I understood and began to practice spirituality, like others I was somewhat confused on what spirituality was, but like all beliefs it's a lifestyle…
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Date 5 January 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

A Katherine Mansfield quote

Something inspirational: “Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t…
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Date 4 January 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Losing Someone Close

You lose someone and your whole life changes. If you can, try to remember to tap into how you feel, so you're aware of your…
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Date 3 January 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Cancel Culture

Cancel culture is the removal, a cancelling of people, organisations, brands, or products, usually down to something that a group, or community disapproves of, often…
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