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 1 December 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A new cerebral palsy diagnosis

At the age of two and a half I was being treated for a spastic monoparesis, although I didn’t know I had been diagnosed. Then,…
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Date 30 November 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Robert Brault

Something inspirational: "Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got." ROBERT BRAULT
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Date 29 November 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Simple Veggie Curry

Simple Veggie Curry 'Adapted from a recipe from the BBC Good Food' Ingredients: 1 tbsp oil 1 onion, roughly chopped ...
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Date 28 November 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Recognising others' issues

It is far easier to know how to help others, than it is to help ourselves. Perhaps it’s got something to do with the fact…
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Date 27 November 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

My Spina Bifida diagnosis

I initially dismissed having spina bifida because I had no obvious symptoms, but my medical notes clearly state that at the age of fourteen in…
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Date 26 November 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Walt Whitman

Something inspirational: "The future is no more uncertain than the present." WALT WHITMAN
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Date 25 November 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Aerobic Exercises/2

Today’s exercise blog is the second part to last month’s Exercise blog on Aerobic Exercises. As with all exercises please remember to warm up before…
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Date 24 November 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Angry people hurt people

Angry people hurt people. It takes strength and courage from us to take a step back and remind ourselves that being angry, or hurt because…
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Date 23 November 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Closure on particular issues

It becomes a revelation when you come to understand something you thought you would never understand but you do; it’s also cathartic, if a hard…
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Date 22 November 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A Sterling K Brown quote

Something inspirational: "Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms."…
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Date 21 November 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Unlocking our thinking

We will either spend a life disengaging, then engaging, reacting inappropriately, get that wrong, then disengage again. Unproductive actions lead us to nowhere, instead of…
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Date 20 November 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Silencing our inner critic

Having positive role models when we’re children is the key to an unwanted inner critic, but in times of continual stress and negativity, sadly it’s…
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