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 20 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Emotions and decisions

Because emotions dictate some of the decisions we make, it is important we don’t rush into or make permanent decisions we can’t change, unless we’re…
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Date 19 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Respect & disrespect

Something inspirational: "When someone disrespects you, beware the impulse to win their respect. For disrespect is not a valuation of your worth but a signal…
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Date 18 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

My Lifestyle Blog

While each blog I write represents a new way of thinking, which moves me on to a new thought process, I can see how my…
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Date 17 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Overcoming mental blocks

We all have mental blocks where we’re stuck and have no control over our thinking, like we have forgotten our thought process. Whether we’re trying…
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Date 16 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Low impact workouts

Although I can’t participate in most exercises, I do like to write about them as part of a healthy lifestyle. It is important to give…
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Date 15 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

We save ourselves

Something inspirational: "No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path." BUDDHA
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Date 14 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

The right thing to do

If we’re given information that could go on to change a person’s life, we must put that person’s needs first before our own, even if…
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Date 13 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Healthy Snacking

Snacking between meals can contribute to maintaining a healthy balanced diet, as long as those snacks are healthy; so it’s equally as important when considering…
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Date 12 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Blanking things out

Blanking something out doesn’t mean the thing we have blanked out didn’t happen. Sadly, we spend a lifetime blanking experiences and conversations out, so we…
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Date 11 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Gossip

Something inspirational: "Gossip dies when it reaches a wise person's ears." UNKNOWN
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Date 10 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Morality and education

Morality isn’t always taught through education. But even if children were to learn morality in the classroom, it is a parent’s job to teach right…
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Date 9 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

How we see abuse

Sadly, on an unconscious level, those of us who have been abused may not always equate that others too may perhaps have also been abused,…
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