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 1 May 2019
Author Ilana Estelle

Issues and Change

Issues are very much the catalyst for non-change. Dealing with issues are important if we are to come through the other end of change. For…
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Date 30 April 2019
Author Ilana Estelle

The injustice of it all

There’s a photograph of me as a child that I often find myself peering at. I don't know how old I was but I must…
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Date 29 April 2019
Author Ilana Estelle

A legacy that inspires

Something inspirational: "If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an…
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Date 28 April 2019
Author Ilana Estelle

Chocolate Brownies

Chocolate Brownies 'Moist and absolutely loaded with chocolate. Recipe adapted from King Arthur Flour' Ingredients: 2/3 cup cocoa powder 1 cup sugar substitute such as…
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Date 27 April 2019
Author Ilana Estelle

Ethical Principles

Ethical principles are a philosophical stance which directly or indirectly leads to a standard based around ethics. Ethics means ‘moral principles that govern a person…
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Date 26 April 2019
Author Ilana Estelle

Shutting Down

I have always known I emotionally shut down, but perhaps withdrawal feels more accurate. I withdraw when sensory input becomes too much, where there is…
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Date 25 April 2019
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Denis Waitley

Something inspirational: “Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.” DENIS WAITLEY
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Date 24 April 2019
Author Ilana Estelle

Climate Change Facts

Climate change continues to dominate conversations, and rightly so – it remains the most pressing issue facing our world today. Governments must not only discuss…
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Date 23 April 2019
Author Ilana Estelle

A Lifetime of Disbelief

Given the depth of hurt and unnecessary suffering, it’s no surprise that the same thoughts keep circling in my mind. They are shaped by my…
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Date 22 April 2019
Author Ilana Estelle

More on My Cerebral Palsy

It's 56 years into a disability I didn’t know I had, and there are new things that I am needing to come to terms with.…
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Date 21 April 2019
Author Ilana Estelle

An Erol Ozan quote

Something inspirational: “Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.” EROL OZAN
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Date 20 April 2019
Author Ilana Estelle

Social Responsibility

We all need to have a social responsibility. It is something we should take control of and be responsible for. Social responsibility is an ethical…
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