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 4 September 2022
Author Ilana Estelle

The World Needs More Love

“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases…
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Date 3 September 2022
Author Ilana Estelle

A Laurie Halse Anderson quote

Something inspirational: “When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.” LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON, Speak
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Date 2 September 2022
Author Ilana Estelle

A Poem by Martha Medeiros

“Die slowly He who becomes the slave of habit, who follows the same routes every day, who never changes pace, who does not risk and…
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Date 1 September 2022
Author Ilana Estelle

Working on Mental Health

Mental health issues can turn into mental health illness. It’s not the experience that hurts us, it is our perceptions, not being able to let…
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Date 31 August 2022
Author Ilana Estelle

Managing Life at Home in Covid-19

The definition of institution: 'The act of instituting.' - thefreedictionary.com In the pandemic, for those who are already institutionalised, they have never made it out…
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Date 30 August 2022
Author Ilana Estelle

A Tyrion Lanister quote

Something inspirational: "Once you've accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you." TYRION LANISTER
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Date 29 August 2022
Author Ilana Estelle

A James Gordon quote

Something inspirational: “It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.” JAMES…
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Date 28 August 2022
Author Ilana Estelle

Super Easy Summer Sandwich

Super Easy Summer Sandwich 'Adapted from myrecipes.com' Ingredients: 1 medium tin tuna chunks 4 teaspoons extra-virgin olive ...
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Date 27 August 2022
Author Ilana Estelle

Mental Health is in the Doldrums

Why is it that mental health is rarely talked about now the pandemic is finished being discussed? Since all restrictions have been lifted in the…
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Date 26 August 2022
Author Ilana Estelle

An Update On My New Website

The design of my new The CP Diary new website is coming along well. It’s vibrant and modern, and super easy to navigate. I absolutely…
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Date 25 August 2022
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Atticus Poetry

Something inspirational: “We are all born free and spend a lifetime becoming slaves to our own false truths.” ATTICUS POETRY, Love Her Wild
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Date 24 August 2022
Author Ilana Estelle

Another Robin Sharma quote

Something inspirational: “If your life is worth thinking about, it is worth writing about.” ROBIN SHARMA
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