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 12 July 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Albert Camus

Something inspirational: "Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear." ALBERT CAMUS
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Date 11 July 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Cultivating Equanimity

Finding calm in our chaotic world isn’t always easy, particularly when we are continually compounded by news and decisions taken that are made for us,…
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Date 10 July 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Shared Experiences

Although we may have shared experiences, we will interpret and take different things from those shared experiences, that put us on a different path. No…
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Date 9 July 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

The Universal Way

Even as a small child with my problems around a disability I didn’t know I had, I unconsciously held on to the belief that I…
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Date 8 July 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

An Akshay Dubey quote

Something inspirational: "Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives." AKSHAY DUBEY
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Date 7 July 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Masks Save Lives

I should have put out a feature page today, but this was an important but difficult blog that I felt I needed to write. Questioning…
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Date 6 July 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

UK's handling of Covid-19

Living with the pandemic has sent my anxiety into overdrive and with autism, I still have my struggle days. It’s difficult, because for every reason…
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Date 5 July 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Book versed or Intuitive?

When we are book versed, we’re more likely to judge others on what they choose to do with the information we give them. When we’re…
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Date 4 July 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

A long and difficult road

It’s been a long and difficult road to get to where I am. There are days when I wonder at it all. My writing doesn’t…
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Date 3 July 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Something inspirational: “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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Date 2 July 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Politics, Brexit and Covid-19

I don’t run from my thoughts; I deal with them. I also don’t like to write about politics, in fact it’s the opposite, but if…
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Date 1 July 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Why we hold on to anger

“Anger is defined as an emotion characterised by tension and hostility arising from frustration, real or imagined injury by another, or perceived injustice” – Google…
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