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 24 February 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Taking Control of Your Mental Health

Awareness is where you begin to reclaim yourself My earlier blog was about the world losing its balance. And that’s true. But what affects the…
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Date 23 February 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Growing Up Without Context

Growing up Without Knowing why Everything Felt Harder How many of us grow up without context? For you, it might have been not knowing you…
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Date 22 February 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

An Anthony Liccione quote

Something inspirational: “Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.” ANTHONY LICCIONE  
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Date 21 February 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Accepting the Past Without Letting It Define You

Not all things begin with our choice We don’t choose every reality we encounter, but we do choose how we meet it. Some circumstances arise…
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Date 20 February 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

February Fitness: A Quiet Reset Before Spring

Building Momentum Before Spring February doesn’t have the loud motivation of January or the fresh-start energy of spring. It sits in between – colder, quieter,…
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Date 19 February 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Thich Nhat Hanh

Something inspirational: "Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping." THICH NHAT HANH Food for thought: Thich Nhat Hanh’s explains that “running”…
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Date 18 February 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Losing a Twin: Life as a Twinless Twin

A Loss No One Prepares You For Losing a twin is a kind of loss no one prepares you for, least yourself. It’s not just…
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Date 17 February 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Contentment, Closer to Home

A Gentle Invitation to Look Inwards There's a line that stayed with me while watching the Durrells: “We all love the sunset, but we would…
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Date 16 February 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

The Grief Of Lost Protection

The Belief in Protection Sometimes clarity arrives long after the experience itself. And when it does, it changes how we understand everything that came before.…
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Date 15 February 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

A Calvin Coolidge quote

Something inspirational: “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius…
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Date 14 February 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Enlightenment and Earthly Traits: Why We Lose Our Way

Much of what I write on The CP Diary promotes understanding, patterns that validate our thoughts, fears and habits that shape our wellbeing. But those…
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Date 13 February 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

When Absence Becomes Part of You

Healing in the Stillness of Shared Absence In solitude, I find a different kind of connection – one that doesn’t come from the noise of…
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