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 6 May 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Andre Gide

Something inspirational: "Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves." ANDRE GIDE
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Date 5 May 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Invisible Neglect

Invisible neglect is simple in its definition and powerful in its effects. But whatever our experiences growing up with neglect, it is important to accept…
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Date 4 May 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Managing Anxiety

I deal with anxiety because I deal with autism. My emotions are also impaired through extensive damage to the cerebral cortex, brought about through cerebral…
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Date 3 May 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Lifestyle Changes

If the coronavirus is teaching us one thing, it's time to change our lifestyles. What we do now is important if we are, our children…
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Date 2 May 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Stanley Tucci

Something inspirational: "A dream you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life." STANLEY TUCCI
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Date 1 May 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

My Experiences are Not Okay

We are human, we are capable of adapting to all sorts of change, but we have to want to. “People don’t resist change. They resist…
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Date 30 April 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Brainwashing Children

Brainwashing, also known as coercive persuasion, is the concept that the human mind can be controlled or altered by certain psychological techniques. Brainwashing and New…
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Date 29 April 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Hot Cross Bun Pudding

Hot Cross Bun Pudding 'A delicious cross between bread and butter pudding and hot cross bun adapted from Olive Magazine.com' Ingredients: 200ml low fat cream…
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Date 28 April 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

A Patrick Ness quote

Something inspirational: “You do not write your life with words... You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important…
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Date 27 April 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Good things Come to Those Who Wait

"I have always been optimistic. I always believed that no matter what happened around my disability, good things would come. That thought never left me.…
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Date 26 April 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Time to Reflect

The more I move forward with my life, the more I seem to be reflecting. I am finding it difficult to get my head around…
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Date 25 April 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Our Corona Lessons

Autism and Covid-19 is the reason I've been in shock – lockdown was difficult, but now I'm able to bring a new thinking. Into the…
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