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 December 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

A Michael Cunningham quote

Something inspirational: “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM
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Date 13 December 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

The Spirituality Concept

Spirituality and the spirituality concept isn’t difficult. It’s a lifestyle choice that if learned to embrace, brings the most peace. Spirituality Spirituality isn’t just about…
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Date 12 December 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

I am a rainbow

I choose to see the world through a multi coloured lens and appreciate the beauty of all that is complex, unique and individual of the…
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Date 11 December 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Small gestures of kindness

The world has changed, or maybe it hasn’t changed, but we have changed. What is clear, in Covid, we are not the same people and…
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Date 10 December 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

A William Ellery Channing quote

Something inspirational: "No one should part with their individuality and become that of another." WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
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Date 9 December 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Rejoicing life

Some days when I look back on my experiences, not knowing I was dealing with a disability, I am left feeling sad with what I…
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Date 8 December 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

A John Milton quote

Something inspirational: “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” JOHN MILTON
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Date 7 December 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Seeking out the truth

Covid-19 is never far away, neither is what’s happening out there, particularly with the new variant, which will change again, the vaccine and with the…
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Date 6 December 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Mental Health, time to evaluate

The UK has come out of the EU with significant difficulties and those are still on-going. The world has been hit with a pandemic and…
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Date 5 December 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Autism doesn't need fixing

Having watched the documentary by Paddy McGuiness and his wife, about their 3 children with autism, I didn’t learn much more than I know through…
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Date 4 December 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

A Daniel Defoe quote

Something inspirational: “The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.“…
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Date 3 December 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Memories of a lost childhood

I remember struggling with my disability around a diagnosis I didn’t know I had. I remember my mental and emotional struggles, the visuals I didn’t…
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