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 8 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Not knowing & guilt

I enjoy watching programmes that make a difference to people who need help having their homes adapted to fit their conditions and for whatever reason…
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Date 7 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

My life, my story

Something inspirational: "This is my life... my story... my book. I will no longer let anyone else write it, nor will I apologise for the…
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Date 6 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Taking a step back

Sometimes I need to take a step back so that I come up for air every now and again, to look at where I’m at…
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Date 5 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Baking & sugar

Baking is something that we acquire a taste for and it usually starts in childhood. I remember my mum baking and me and my siblings…
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Date 4 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

More on my SPD

My Sensory Processing issues are never far away. We know that sensory process is the way in which the central nervous system of the body…
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Date 3 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Repair or repeat

Something inspirational: "We repeat what we don't repair." CHRISTINE LANGLEY-OBAUGH
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Date 2 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Pull and push factors

Push and pull factors not only occur when we’re thinking about changing jobs and what may push and pull us to accept one job over…
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Date 1 September 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Society & being different

Why are so many of us who deal with something treated differently? It’s not just Cerebral Palsy of course, but what about Asperger’s, Autism and…
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Date 31 August 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Open about my life

I’ve always been open about what I deal with, even before The CP Diary was born. It’s my way of trying to understand, deal with…
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Date 30 August 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A Ralph Marston quote

Something inspirational: "Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open." RALPH MARSTON
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Date 29 August 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Panzanella Salad

Panzanella Salad ‘Adapted from a Recipe from the Guardian’ Ingredients: ½ red onion, thinly sliced 1 red pepper ...
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Date 28 August 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Our self-righteousness

The self-righteous will always be blindsided by all that life has to offer. They will never learn about other people or other people’s lives, because…
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