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 25 December 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

Christmas 2025 Reflections

When the Year Has Been Hard, We Keep Going As Christmas 2025 arrives, I am lonely without my twin. Her absence has changed the way…
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Date 24 December 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

Living Inside Inherited Karma

What We Inherit – And What We Choose Next There’s a difference between carrying someone else’s karma; and living inside inherited karma. Most of what…
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Date 23 December 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

When Fear is Learned

When Lived Experience Meets Research Although my experiences are deeply personal, many of the things I struggled with growing up are reflected in research. Not…
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Date 22 December 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Walter D. Wintle

The Quiet Strength of Self-Belief Something inspirational: If you think you are beaten, you are;If you think you dare not, you don’t;If you like to…
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Date 21 December 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

The Cost of Living Reactively

Self-awareness, Personal Responsibility, Political Clarity and Inner Work I live with anxiety, alongside the long-term effects of decades of trauma and autism, which means I’m…
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Date 20 December 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

Exercise: Midlife Strength Over Aesthetics

Inside the Living-room Workouts helping Women to feel Capable, Confident and Strong Four days a week, without fail, Caroline Idiens set up on her living-room…
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Date 19 December 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

Twin Loss Without the Mirror

A Quiet Bond, A Life Forever Changed Grief after the loss of a twin is deeply misunderstood. Many people assume twin relationships are defined by…
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Date 18 December 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

When It’s Close Enough to See

A Familiar Sense It often only takes a few minutes. Not because the realisation is simple –but because once you see it, you can’t unsee…
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Date 17 December 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

An Edward Abbey quote

A Warning Against Mistaking Ego for Substance Something inspirational: “An empty man is full of himself.” EDWARD ABBEY
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Date 16 December 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

Writing Through The Noise

Continuing to Write with Hope in an Unbalanced World This is a personal reflection on how, for me, writing has become more challenging in today’s…
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Date 15 December 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

Generational Differences: Acting Without Wisdom

On Discernment, Decision-Making, and Consequence The younger generation is often described as risk-takers. Brave. Willing to push boundaries and challenge systems that no longer work.…
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Date 14 December 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

The Food Trends Set to Shape How We Eat in 2026

As we look towards Food Trends 2026, two of the most overlooked factors – diet and mental health are becoming impossible to ignore. What we…
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