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 29 July 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

How I Got to this Place

Emotional or mental trauma is based on living a traumatic life. Not knowing I had cerebral palsy or autism, and having to live each day…
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Date 28 July 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

An Epictetus quote

Something inspirational: “Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.” EPICTETUS
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Date 27 July 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Vegan Chilli

Vegan Chilli 'Adapted from BBC Good Food' Ingredients: For the chilli 2 tbsp olive oil 2 medium onions sliced 1 red pepper, deseeded, cut into…
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Date 26 July 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Find Yourself

Do we really know what it means to find ourselves and to discover ourself in a world that is changed? In life it is the…
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Date 25 July 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

My Book and PR

Having had my book Cerebral Palsy, ‘A Story’ published in January 2020, and going into lockdown in March for four months, I wanted to do…
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Date 24 July 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

A Stephen Richards quote

Something inspirational: "When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you." STEPHEN…
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Date 23 July 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Visualisation

"Visualisation is the act or an instance of visualising a technique involving focusing on positive mental images in order to achieve a particular goal that…
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Date 22 July 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

True Feelings

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role.” – Jim Morrison We…
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Date 21 July 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

What is Meant to Be will Be

What is meant to be will be. Then there are things that are self-inflicted, like the Covid virus. It's a virus we have created through…
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Date 20 July 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Accountability

Accountability is something we know to do, something ignored, but it should not be ignored. If we want to create a culture, so we can…
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Date 19 July 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

A Maxime Lagace quote

Something inspirational: "You’ll be calm the day you learn to sit alone and do nothing." MAXIME LAGACE
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Date 18 July 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Unknown benefits of Exercise

All of us know the many physical benefits of exercise, such as weight control, lower blood pressure, reduced risk of diabetes, and increased energy, but…
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