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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
"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.…