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 13 December 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Turning poison into nectar

We live our lives holding on to resentment and poison expecting others to swallow first, as if our lives depend on it, and yet it’s…
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Date 12 December 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Rosa Parks

Something inspirational: “When one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” ROSA PARKS
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Date 11 December 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

My Medical Records

I don’t normally do two personal blogs back to back, but felt I needed further clarification on my medical records. I have become slightly agitated…
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Date 10 December 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Symptoms and Diagnoses

I wish I could say that all my symptoms are boxed and ticked under the right diagnosis, but sadly that’s isn’t the case. Yet more…
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Date 9 December 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A special needs child

Having empathy helps us understand how a child with special needs works, but me having special needs was never something I equated in myself, because…
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Date 8 December 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Words and Pauses

Something inspirational: "The right word may be effective, but no word was ever effective as a rightly timed pause." MARK TWAIN
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Date 7 December 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Overlooked vs Ignorance

My childhood thoughts on how things happened are never far away. Although any disability being overlooked would have been bad enough as a child, it…
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Date 6 December 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A page from someone's book

I can see how without actively thinking about our lives, we may end up copying the very people we should actively be seeking to distance…
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Date 5 December 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Being critical

I’ve heard it said, ‘don’t criticise what you don’t understand.’ Instead, we may come in from a place of knowing, when in reality we may…
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Date 4 December 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A Sophia Loren quote

Something inspirational: "It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new. SOPHIA LOREN
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Date 3 December 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

My Autism Symptoms

I’ve had a lot on my mind recently since looking through my medical notes again. It is vital for any specialist to be informed about…
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Date 2 December 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Bumps in the road

While our life is made up of setbacks and bumps in the road, they’re ones we’d rather not repeat, but may go on to repeat.…
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