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 9 October 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Phobia

A phobia is an irrational fear of a situation or thing that compels us to avoid it, despite our awareness that it’s not dangerous. A…
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Date 8 October 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Deserving Better

I accept I deserved better, although how I got to this place is difficult. A Quote by Jim Rohn There is a famous quote by…
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Date 7 October 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

A Gordon Ramsay quote

Something inspirational: "The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over." GORDON RAMSAY
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Date 6 October 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Publishing in the Pandemic

The pandemic and Brexit continue to have a bearing on my book Cerebral Palsy: ‘A Story’. On the day I was officially published, Covid-19 had…
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Date 5 October 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Finding clarity

We may not always have clarity, but we can work on finding it. Clarity isn't a gift, it's something we need to create for ourselves.…
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Date 4 October 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

The 'Write Offs'

The Channel 4 documentary two part series called ‘The Write Offs’ explores Britain’s low adult literacy rates, takes 8 adults, aged between 22 and 66,…
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Date 3 October 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

A David Attenborough quote

Something inspirational: “An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfilment.” DAVID…
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Date 2 October 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Coming together

We are all open to catching the Covid-19 virus, it's why I write about, it's worrying and concerning for me particularly because I deal with…
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Date 1 October 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

My Writing Journey

Although my disability is responsible for my writing journey, I am humbled by the fact that I am able to write, in spite of what…
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Date 30 September 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Silence and Solitude

Even as a child I was alone with my thoughts, having to work things out. I didn’t know about cerebral palsy or autism back then.…
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Date 29 September 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

An Aristotle quote

Something inspirational: "All persons ought to endeavour to follow what is right, and not what is established." ARISTOTLE
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Date 28 September 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Child Obesity

The rates of obesity are alarming among younger children, with one in ten children aged four to five years now classed as obese. National Records…
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