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 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Avocados and Gut Health

The avocado is a unique fruit. While most fruit consists primarily of carbohydrate, avocado is high in healthy fats. Numerous studies show that it has…
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Date 13 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

A Rae Carson quote

Something inspirational: “From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.” RAE CARSON The Girl of Fire and Thorns
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Date 12 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Living with Stigma

I normalise my thoughts, by writing about my life including my disability and how I feel about that. For those who deal with a disability…
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Date 11 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Behavioural Conditioning

As children, we don’t think about how much we rely on learned behaviour. It’s what we’ve learned, it’s what we live by without question. Behaviour…
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Date 10 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

The Peanut Butter Falcon

Have you ever come across a film that speaks to you, that makes you question your values, captures your soul and heightens your imagination? For…
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Date 9 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Counting our Blessings

Something inspirational: “Some blessings do not look like blessings initially, but later you realize you are in fact better off the way things turned out.”…
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Date 8 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

How my Cerebral Palsy Journey Began

In October 2006, I didn’t know it was to be my family’s first and last holiday abroad. We were in St Paul de Vence, in…
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Date 7 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Getting on with life with Covid-19

Since I started writing, I write about things on my blog, so that I can reduce my anxiety. Covid-19 is definitely at the top. What…
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Date 6 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Our Intuitive Mind

When we use our intuitive mind we find resolution, instead of using blame. Where we know others are to blame, we may choose resolution instead.…
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Date 5 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

A Ma Jaya quote

Something inspirational: "When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.” MA JAYA
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Date 4 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

A Book For You

My website, The CP Diary will be 11 years old, and into my 12th year of writing on the 17th May 2021. My biggest achievement…
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Date 3 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Hiding Behind a Mask

It is because I live with anxiety that I have chosen not to hide behind a mask. As a child I wanted to talk about…
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