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 14 November 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

A Bernice King quote

Something inspirational: "It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness." BERNICE KING
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Date 13 November 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Children Living with Abuse

The World Health Organisation distinguishes four types of child maltreatment, sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect and emotional and psychological abuse. The "WHO" shouldn't have to…
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Date 12 November 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

More 'topical blogs'

When I was growing up there was little in the media, including the environment, food and the relationship between food production and the environment, its…
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Date 11 November 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Mercury in our Seas

According to an article dated 6, August 2014 in The Guardian newspaper, the amount of mercury near the surface of many of the world’s oceans…
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Date 10 November 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

A Jake Gyllenhaal quote

Something inspirational: "I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person." JAKE GYLLENHAAL
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Date 9 November 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Communicating

"Living with a Disability I Didn't Know About and Learning to Speak My Truth" We tend to ignore our tone and how we communicate with…
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Date 8 November 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Extra pieces of the jigsaw/2

As a continuation from my ‘Extra pieces of the jigsaw’ blog, as part of the co-occurring conditions I get to deal with I can also…
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Date 7 November 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Extra pieces of the jigsaw

I’ll never know now because it’s way too late in the day, but it would have been that I would have had a little more…
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Date 6 November 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

The price of everything

Something inspirational: "Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing." OSCAR WILDE
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Date 5 November 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Changing ourselves

Personality traits will always be made up of facets that make up who we are, but it depends on what those facets are. For example,…
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Date 4 November 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Animal welfare

We should all be concerned about animal welfare. In a cultured and civilised society, it is our responsibility to ensure that their needs are met.…
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Date 3 November 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

My exercise routine

Growing older with cerebral palsy doesn’t come without its difficulties. Taking advice over the years from consultants who thought they knew what was best, like…
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