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 13 January 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Health Benefits of Eating Vegan

There are many benefits of eating vegan food. The biggest benefit is it's healthier, because you're eating plant based food, which is good for the…
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Date 12 January 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

A Søren Kierkegaard quote

Something inspirational: “The most common form of despair is not being who you are.” SOREN KIERKEGAARD
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Date 11 January 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Misplaced Loyalty and its dangers

Misplaced loyalty which is based on guilt, can come at a cost to our own personal, mental and emotional health. When anyone is biased towards…
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Date 10 January 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Autism and Covid

I go back to autism every time. I am tied to my autistic thoughts, which aren't normal around what is happening in the pandemic, Covid-19.…
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Date 9 January 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

A Robyn L. Gobin quote

Something inspirational: "When we are spiritually healthy, we realize that we exist beyond the physical and our life has a sense of meaning and purpose."…
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Date 8 January 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Using setbacks as stepping stones

The pandemic has reinforced just how much the world is divided, economically, socially and politically. Where there were cracks there are now chasms. The ‘Daily…
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Date 7 January 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

The Bigger Plan

If like me, you believe life is part of a bigger plan, then my family were chosen, and everything was pre-determined before I was born.…
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Date 6 January 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

People doing as they please

Taking a trip out in the car before lockdown, it was evident and clear to see that society hasn’t changed in the pandemic, the streets…
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Date 5 January 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

A Vivian Amis quote

Something inspirational: “All problems, though appearing outside of you, must be resolved within YOU.” VIVIAN AMIS, The Essentials of Life
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Date 4 January 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

Too many years have passed

I may never get over that I grew up with a disability I never knew I had, with no mental or emotional support around a…
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Date 3 January 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

The UK out of Europe

The UK has gleefully left the EU, the country has rejected 48 years in the European customs union, also called the Common Market, and 28…
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Date 2 January 2021
Author Ilana Estelle

A New Year, 2021

There is no doubt that 2020 was a difficult year, because the world had the pandemic and the UK had Brexit. In 2021, we still…
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