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.
Mental fortitude is our ability to focus on and execute solutions when faced with adverse or uncertain situations. It requires patience, exploration, creativity and positive…
Through cerebral palsy I have neurological issues, so hearing that most hospitalised Covid-19 patients have neurological symptoms isn’t resting easy. COVID-19 is a very real…
We can be forgiven for not quite understanding everything we need to know about the coronavirus, primarily because governments aren’t giving us the information we…
Living with a physical disability, autism and now having to navigate a virus, life is difficult. According to the World Health Organisation ('WHO') the virus…