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 2 December 2019
Author Ilana Estelle

Changing for Something Better

There is no point in change unless you’re sure what you’re going into is better than what you have now. Never let yourself unconsciously believe…
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Date 1 December 2019
Author Ilana Estelle

A Shel Silverstein quote

Something inspirational: “He wasted his wishes on wishing.” SHEL SILVERSTEIN, Where the Sidewalk Ends
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Date 30 November 2019
Author Ilana Estelle

A Story of Positivity and Hope

"Living with so many thoughts whirring growing up not knowing about my disability, I took to writing about my disability at the first opportunity, in…
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Date 29 November 2019
Author Ilana Estelle

Stuffed Butternut Squash

Stuffed Butternut Squash Ingredients: 1 medium-sized squash 4 tbsp olive oil 100g wild rice 1 large fennel bulb 1 cooking apple 1 lemon, zested and…
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Date 28 November 2019
Author Ilana Estelle

Positive Environmental Impact

Coldplay have taken the initiative and have put their plans to tour on hold, while they consider how to make their tours environmentally friendly. We…
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Date 27 November 2019
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Kanye West

Something inspirational: “I didn't play the cards I was dealt. I changed the cards.” KANYE WEST, Through the Wire: Lyrics and Illuminations
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Date 26 November 2019
Author Ilana Estelle

Accepting Universal Truths

I am aware that without my writing, I would be no nearer to understanding my disability. I certainly wouldn’t have gone down the knowing what…
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Date 25 November 2019
Author Ilana Estelle

Childhood Trauma

The word trauma describes continuous negative events that are emotionally painful that long-term interfere, with a child’s ability to cope – ‘Google.’ Children who are…
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Date 24 November 2019
Author Ilana Estelle

Late Bloomer

"I suppose you would call me a late bloomer. In my formative years, I merely existed. In a world that has become obsessed with early…
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Date 23 November 2019
Author Ilana Estelle

A Thaiia Senquetta quote

Something inspirational: “Healing is your right, your responsibility and the risk you can't afford not to take.” THAIIA SENQUETTA, Honey peppered tongue
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Date 22 November 2019
Author Ilana Estelle

Uncertainty

"Growing up around a disability I didn’t know I had meant I lived with uncertainty, because I had no understanding on what I was dealing…
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Date 21 November 2019
Author Ilana Estelle

Multiple Genes

Many people are familiar with single-gene disorders, but what’s less known is that these conditions are far less common than disorders influenced by multiple genes…
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