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 6 May 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Discipline and Pride

Something inspirational: "Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction." MARGARET…
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Date 5 May 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

My Over-Compensating Senses

If I woke up tomorrow without Cerebral Palsy, I wouldn’t be able to write in the way I do now and therefore wouldn’t have my…
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Date 4 May 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Health and Working Long Hours

A study recently published in the medical journal ‘The Lancet’ identifies a link between working hours and our health. It is thought that the stress…
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Date 3 May 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Emotionally balanced

Being emotionally balanced being ’emotionally stable’ is something we all need to be. It is not something we think about unless we’re struggling, but without…
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Date 2 May 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

A Simone Biles quote

Something inspirational: "I'd rather regret the risks that didn't work out than the chances I didn't take at all." SIMONE BILES
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Date 1 May 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Joining the dots

A good friend of mine commented in one of his responses that my blogs helped him maintain a firm grip on life and although my…
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Date 30 April 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Personality Characteristics

According to personality type theories, the individual’s type is inborn and doesn’t change, but as individuals we can develop habits and personality traits that can…
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Date 29 April 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

My anxiety struggles

I have always dealt with anxiety ever since I was a small child and no one thought to ask the question, or do anything about…
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Date 28 April 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

A Chinese saying

Something inspirational: "Things at the worst will mend." CHINESE PROVERB
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Date 27 April 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Homemade Sushi

Homemade Sushi For the Sushi: 255g/9oz sushi rice 1 tuna steak, cut into long thin strips ...
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Date 26 April 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Initiating change

We allow our subconscious to dictate how we live in the present and that will never help us initiate change. We must be the ones…
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Date 25 April 2018
Author Ilana Estelle

Understanding 'Write & Burn'

There is a Shamanic Teaching, which teaches us that it’s important to release ‘the old’ so that we can invite in ‘the new.’ The enormity…
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