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 11 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

A Kahlil Gibran quote

Something inspirational: “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.” KAHLIL GIBRAN
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Date 10 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Reinforced Insecurities

Deep-rooted emotions will always affect how we feel and our energy, therefore it is important to think about issues that are making us unhappy and…
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Date 9 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

A time for mourning

Mourning isn’t just something we do when we lose a loved one. Mourning is also for something that happens to us, something that we need…
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Date 8 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Holding a grudge

My mum used to quote the saying ‘no one goes go to school to be a parent’, but that puts children at a disadvantage. It…
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Date 7 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Anger is an acid

Something inspirational: "Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it…
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Date 6 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Goodnight Beautiful Bird

While out for a walk, I came across an injured pigeon that looked to have been clipped by a car and was left injured on…
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Date 5 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Getting to grips with anxiety

My mind isn’t settled. It comes on the back of having to continually deal with anxiety. There seems to be no reprise. It is because…
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Date 4 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

OCD and Perfectionism

The majority of us will hold ourselves to an impossible standard that is difficult to uphold, where we continue to aim for perfection. Obsessive Compulsive…
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Date 3 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

A Sandy Nathan quote

Something inspirational: “Your life is your spiritual path. It's what's right in front of you. You can't live anyone else's life. The task is to…
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Date 2 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Why not me?

As a child, growing up with physical and emotional difficulties, it is remarkable I never once asked ‘why me?’ Instead I told myself, it was…
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Date 1 June 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Changing the initial response

Changing the initial response to something, is important if we are to avoid closing ourselves further in. But without changing the initial response, we cannot…
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Date 31 May 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Breaking the cycle of abuse

Abuse and the cycle of abuse will always continue unless the cycle is broken. But often the root of abuse is deeply embedded in the…
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