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 26 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Living under a Covid-19 cloud

It is because I deal with autism that I find living in the pandemic unsettling and uncomfortable. In the early days, when the magnitude of…
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Date 25 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Vivian Amis

Something inspirational: “Some people would rather be right than free.” VIVIAN AMIS
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Date 24 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Looking forwards

Looking forwards means we’re looking to the future, we’re taking control. It puts us in a healthier head space, and as long as we’re not…
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Date 23 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Emotional Validation

The reality of living through the pandemic is enormously difficult for us all and although I cannot prevent emotional storms from cropping up, with emotional…
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Date 22 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Stop caring what others think

The thing that holds us back the most, is our concern of what others think, instead of thinking about ourselves and what we want to…
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Date 21 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

A Brittany Hawes quote

Something inspirational: "Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.” BRITTANY HAWES,…
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Date 20 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

My Book Writing

“Writing is a way to engage with the world on your own terms and to escape, however temporarily, the world’s noise. Article continues after advertisement.…
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Date 19 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Simple Home Exercises for Lockdown

All around the world people are in varying states of lockdown. While some are able to get out and about and exercise others unfortunately can’t.…
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Date 18 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Stop Waiting and Start Doing

Without us having a sense of self, everything we try to do may not work out. Start understanding who you are and stop waiting for…
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Date 17 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

A Roshani Chokshi quote

Something inspirational: “I know your soul. Everything else is just an ornament.” ROSHANI CHOKSHI, The Star-Touched Queen Happy St Patrick's Day
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Date 16 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Unresolved handwriting issues

Out of everything I have had to deal with, my handwriting is something I continue to struggle with. It’s not something I am always comfortable…
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Date 15 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

We define ourselves

However you define yourself, you shouldn’t be defined by someone else’s opinion. No one really knows how you feel, or what you’ve been through. Unless…
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