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 19 March 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

A David G Allen quote

Something inspirational: “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” DAVID G. ALLEN
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Date 18 March 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Surprising Benefits of Exercise

There are plenty of compelling reasons for us to start moving, age is immaterial. Exercise is medicine. A pill doesn’t replace exercise. Below are just…
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Date 17 March 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Being Outspoken

Being outspoken isn’t always helpful. As a child I wasn’t so much outspoken, rather angry. I didn’t have an opinion, unless I was asked a…
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Date 16 March 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Emotional Barriers

Emotional barriers are the emotions we put up to protect ourselves from the outside world. Those barriers are a place that keeps our emotions in…
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Date 15 March 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Responsibility and Closure

"Having worked on my book for 3 years, outlining my life with what I later learned was a disability and my experiences as they happened,…
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Date 14 March 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

A Jillian Michaels quote

Something inspirational: “It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change…
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Date 13 March 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Vegan and Vegetarian diets

According to a new major study people who eat vegan and vegetarian diets have a lower risk of heart disease and a higher risk of…
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Date 12 March 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Family Disputes

When it comes to family, disputes aren't easy to navigate. Too much water under the bridge and working together seems near to impossible. But where…
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Date 11 March 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

My Autism Nemesis

I was always aware I was different. My parents parenting made me different. For me, there was something about my eyes I didn't like. Fast…
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Date 10 March 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

A Yukito Kishiro quote

Something inspirational: “The purpose of battle is to attain the greatest heights within your own limits.” YUKITO KISHIRO
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Date 9 March 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Letting Go of the Past

Many of us physically live in the present, but we emotionally live in the past. Each experience we have resides in the past and unless…
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Date 8 March 2020
Author Ilana Estelle

Finding Inner Peace

Finding inner peace is having self-acceptance. We shouldn’t have to prove ourselves to every person we come into contact with. Inner peace comes through acceptance…
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