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 19 November 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

More neuro symptoms

Because my parents didn’t ask questions about my neurological symptoms, I am still having to piece those symptoms together through various medical notes. It’s a…
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Date 18 November 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Government's first duty

Something inspirational: "Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." RONALD REAGAN
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Date 17 November 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A processing deficit

I have always been happy for others to make their own decisions, but it’s the effect of their decisions that can sometimes interfere with my…
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Date 16 November 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Questions and Clarification

Asking questions gives us clarity. It’s the simplest way of learning and its effective too. It’s also the best way for us to gain deeper…
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Date 15 November 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Pesticides and Food

None of us would choose to eat dangerous pesticides with our fruit and vegetables every day and yet that is what we do. Sadly, much…
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Date 14 November 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Spiritual teachings

Something inspirational: "Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness…
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Date 13 November 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Mirroring relationships

A friend of mine brought up a valid comment in one of his responses to my blog and wanted to write further about it. ‘It…
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Date 12 November 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

What was meant to be

Although each blog forms an experience, writing about my disability, referring to my emotional and physical difficulties, not being addressed, explained or dealt with makes…
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Date 11 November 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Self-worth and others

Although some of us may have emotional wounds inflicted upon us by others and as a result, a lack of self-worth is what we end…
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Date 10 November 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Change yourself

Something inspirational: "Change yourself and your work will seem different." NORMAN VINCENT PEALE
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Date 9 November 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Falling into line

Sadly, not knowing I had Cerebral Palsy, let alone neurological impairments, meant that I would always struggle to understand how to function normally in my…
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Date 8 November 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

The Undateables

There is a TV programme in the UK called ‘The Undateables,’ which is centred around those people who are mentally and physical disabled, who get…
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