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 18 March 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

I Didn’t Fail: Reframing My Past After Decades

Discovering a childhood diagnosis later in life often brings a response similar to grief. It’s a common and natural process. It's taken decades. I’m still…
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Date 17 March 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Modern Life and the Quiet Strain on Mental Health

People Can Feel It There’s a quiet, widespread sense that something fundamental has slipped. Not collapsed all at once, not announced, but are being eroded…
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Date 16 March 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Sitting In My Truth

Reflecting on Discovering Cerebral Palsy at Forty-Six. I didn’t know that I had cerebral palsy until I was forty-six. Most children grow up with at…
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Date 15 March 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by James Baldwin

A reminder about truth: “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” JAMES BALDWIN
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Date 14 March 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

A Hal Holbrook quote

A universal truth about loss: "Death ends a life. But it doesn't End a Relationship." HAL HOLBROOK Food for thought: Death may part us physically,…
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Date 13 March 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by George Lucas

Something inspirational: “The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.” GEORGE LUCAS People may assume that someone who speaks confidently must be intelligent. However,…
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Date 12 March 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Reading Beyond the Scroll

Why Slowing Down with Words Matter We scroll. We skim headlines. We consume words without letting them settle. But reading without skimming is different. Reading…
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Date 11 March 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Growing Up Before My Disability Was Understood

Reflecting on my Experiences with the Understanding I Have Now For those who read my blogs, you will know that I write from experience. Those…
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Date 10 March 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

The Quiet Battles People Carry

The Battles We Don't See Some conversations stay with you long after they end. I recently listened to a podcast where an animal welfare advocate…
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Date 9 March 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

An Annie Dillard quote

Something inspirational: "The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less."…
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Date 8 March 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Happy International Women's Day

Happy International Women's Day – 2026 It has taken me a long time to change my life – to find the courage to work out,…
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Date 8 March 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Why Kindness Matters In Everyday Life

What the Way We Treat Others Says About Who We Are Everyone is fighting a battle we don't know about. We like to believe the…
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