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 6 July 2022
Author Ilana Estelle

Living with a Disability in the Pandemic

I’ve never seen myself as disabled more than I do today. It is clear from how the ‘disabled’ are being cast aside, that yes, we…
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Date 5 July 2022
Author Ilana Estelle

Nobody Goes Through Life Unscathed

Emily Blunt… ‘Nobody goes through life unscathed.’ (theguardian.com) We don’t always have to deal with trauma to be scathed. We could have someone control us,…
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Date 4 July 2022
Author Ilana Estelle

An M Scott Peck quote

Something inspirational: "The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning." M SCOTT PECK Happy 4th July to all my American Readers
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Date 3 July 2022
Author Ilana Estelle

An Adrian Corday quote

Something inspirational: “Happiness is not determined by what’s happening around you, but rather what’s happening inside you. Most people depend on others to gain happiness,…
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Date 2 July 2022
Author Ilana Estelle

Feature Page Quotes

Over the next few days, I shall be putting out some feature page quotes. After two days of self-isolation, my children are heading home for…
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Date 1 July 2022
Author Ilana Estelle

Rethink Mental Health

We can either deal with mental health or choose to ignore it. We can allow others to take control of our mental health, or we…
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Date 30 June 2022
Author Ilana Estelle

My Supermarket Visit

Still very much in the throes of the pandemic and two and a half years later, I felt confident enough to go back to a…
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Date 29 June 2022
Author Ilana Estelle

A Dieter F Uchtdorf quote

Something inspirational: “By becoming the answer to someone’s prayer, we often find the answers to our own.” DIETER F UCHTDORF
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Date 28 June 2022
Author Ilana Estelle

The World is going Digital

I write about the things that matter to me and the wider world and when it comes to health, I write about that too. There…
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Date 27 June 2022
Author Ilana Estelle

Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream

Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream Ingredients: 500g pot of vanilla custard 284ml carton double cream 1/2 tsp vanilla extract Method: Mix the ingredients in a bowl…
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Date 26 June 2022
Author Ilana Estelle

Looking at the Positives in Lockdown

No matter what I deal with, I always try to find the positives. In the beginning of the pandemic with autism, it was difficult for…
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Date 25 June 2022
Author Ilana Estelle

The Virus The World Thinks Has Gone

I once wrote a blog entitled ‘My life after Covid.’ A little premature perhaps, two and a half years in, I am ‘four walled,’ confined…
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