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 8 December 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Children want the Truth

As babies we're born with truth. But as life continues, we grow and hurt when we’re not being told the truth. Children intuitively know what…
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Date 7 December 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

A Swami Vivekananda quote

Something inspirational: "You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but…
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Date 6 December 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Why we need a different approach

Having come out of the second lockdown, where I live in the UK, we have now gone back into Tier 3, and people (with exceptions)…
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Date 5 December 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Covid-19 and My Disability

It is because I have cerebral palsy that I have respiratory disease, a disorder that affects the airways and the lungs. My disability has become…
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Date 4 December 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

My Journey in a Book

My journey in a book is based around my difficulties of living with a disability I didn’t know I had. Those were difficult times, it's…
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Date 3 December 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

A Chico Xavier quote

Something inspirational: "Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... anyone can start over and make a new ending." CHICO XAVIER
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Date 2 December 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Rejection and Redirection

When rejection becomes our truth even for a finite time, redirection can help with that, redirecting ourselves into a new life. Turning something harming and…
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Date 1 December 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

My life is no accident

What I have lived through has become purposeful. My birth injury and the life I have subsequently lived wasn’t an accident. All the hardships I…
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Date 30 November 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Covid, we must all change

The virus has turned its mirror on us, showing us exactly who we have become and it’s not bringing the best out in us. We…
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Date 29 November 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

A Sonya Parker quote

Something inspirational: "STOP spending all of your time and energy on people that don't care about you and START using your time to better yourself…
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Date 28 November 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Baked Cauliflower with Pearl Barley

Baked Cauliflower with Pearl Barley 'Adapted from a recipe by Delicious Magazine' Ingredients: 1 large cauliflower leaves removed and saved Olive oil for frying 1…
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Date 27 November 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

A Study of Brexit Voting

In 2016 the UK was given the referendum vote, which 4 years on is still courting controversy. According to the following research, Brexit has also…
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