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 2 October 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

My version of normal

I’ve had to make a conscious effort over the years not to carry over my parents’ issues to raise me as normal. As far as…
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Date 1 October 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Love & growth

Something inspirational: "Love dies only when growth stops." PEARL S. BUCK
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Date 30 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Negative pre-conditioning

Anyone can change the way they see themselves. We’re all capable of change changing how we see others through our core inner beliefs. The reason…
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Date 29 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Humble beginnings

We know and understand our background and roots, but we’re embarrassed, we choose to deny all knowledge, or that it was our existence. If more…
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Date 28 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Learning to listen

We listen on our own terms. We listen, not to understand or to hear, but to jump at the opportunity for us to speak again,…
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Date 27 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

An Edmund Burke quote

Something inspirational: "Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." EDMUND BURKE
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Date 26 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Sticks and stones

As a child growing up with anger issues centred around my physical and emotional issues, it was easy for others to blame me for something…
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Date 25 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Salmon and Broccoli Cutlets

Salmon and Broccoli Cutlets 'Recipe by Claudia' Ingredients: 1 tin red salmon 2 large broccoli florets ...
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Date 24 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Recognising our feelings

Not many of us use introspection, but by observing our own mental and emotional processes, we will start to recognise our thoughts and feelings. We…
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Date 23 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A Zig Ziglar quote

Something inspirational: "If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost." ZIG ZIGLAR
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Date 22 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

I was angry, not bitter

The neglect, my emotional and physical difficulties and not knowing I had Cerebral Palsy made me angry as a child and years on I’m still…
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Date 21 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A life reshaped by diagnosis

Over the years I have documented about my physical and emotional difficulties since I started the Diary, but one of the things I go back…
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