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 5 July 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

A Neil Gaiman quote

Something inspirational: "We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable." NEIL GAIMAN
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Date 3 July 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Our realities in the present

We see what benefits us, what conventional wisdom tells us to see and that can’t help us. We would rather be right than admit we’re…
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Date 3 July 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

A little too late?

Sometimes there are things that are a little too late for us to make amends. When anything becomes too late, the events that should have…
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Date 2 July 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Give and Take

There are givers and takers. For those of us who give, we put other people’s interests ahead of our own. Takers work on themselves, believing…
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Date 1 July 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

An Andre Gide quote

Something inspirational: "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." ANDRE GIDE
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Date 30 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

There's a Certain Nastiness

You'll probably have noticed that when you pick up a newspaper, or turn on the t.v. and what’s happening in the world today has changed…
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Date 29 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Feeling irritated

Although subconsciously I always wanted to know what was wrong with me, up until mum became terminally ill and ‘she said it was a difficult…
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Date 28 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Accepting Disability

When I was born in the 1960s, disability was scarcely mentioned in public discourse or legislation. Britain’s legal landscape was practically silent on the matter,…
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Date 27 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

A Jason Mraz quote

Something inspirational: “Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your…
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Date 26 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Salmon & vegetable fritters

Salmon & vegetable fritters Ingredients: For the fritters 200g courgettes ...
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Date 25 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Getting a Grip on Anxiety

Not knowing I struggled with anxiety throughout my childhood years is the hardest thing I’ve had to come to terms with, knowing why has made…
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Date 24 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

The value of positive emotions

Having lived through experiences I wouldn’t want others to have experienced and not having the emotional support, I know and understand the beneficial psychological effects…
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