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 18 May 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

A Gail Sheehy quote

Something inspirational: “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” GAIL SHEEHY
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Date 17 May 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

The CP Diary is 8 today

The 17th May 2010 is when it all began. What started as an inspirational tool for me to vent, has turned into so much more.…
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Date 16 May 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Dance

Dancing is an excellent form of exercise and brings lots of other surprising health benefits, too. Dance 'as an exercise' When we dance, we expend…
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Date 15 May 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Confronting those who abuse

Abuse is abuse, whichever form it takes, but no matter how it presents, it has become so common place now, we don’t even think or…
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Date 14 May 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

We must want to learn

Something inspirational: "Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn." HENRY FORD
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Date 13 May 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

My school exams

Certain experiences trigger certain issues. My writing, has shaped who I have become, so it’s not all bad. There is no doubt that my father…
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Date 12 May 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

As in life, in death

I always like to bring meaning to my writing, by finding explanations about different things in life. Sadly, when we talk about death it strikes…
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Date 11 May 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Probiotics and Anxiety

I’ve always used a probiotic supplement to help me with reflux and my digestion, but did you know they can also be used to help…
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Date 10 May 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Drawing back positivity

Something inspirational: “The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.” NORMAN VINCENT PEALE
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Date 9 May 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Keeping thoughts in check

I was once told by a family member that I was lucky because my cerebral palsy saved me, but it wasn’t cerebral palsy. It was…
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Date 8 May 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

My Kenophobia symptoms

Looking back on my symptoms over the years, it’s obvious I have been dealing with stress and anxiety since I was a small child and…
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Date 7 May 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

We live our karma

If you believe in karma, you will know that however we choose to live our life, we will have to deal with karma. You will…
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