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 27 August 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

My struggles with SPD

Out of everything I deal with, my senses bother me the most. Unless I find a resolve quickly on a particular issue, I usually have…
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Date 26 August 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Alexander Pope

Something inspirational: "He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty…
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Date 25 August 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Finding time to chill

In this fast-paced world, we live in, we tend to place all our emphasis on work and not enough on our home lives, including spending…
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Date 24 August 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Perceptions & responsibility

From a young age, we develop our identities through self-image. Through self-image we create perceptions of how we view our beliefs, ourselves and the world.…
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Date 23 August 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

The ignorance of it all

"A Life Lived in the Dark: Discovering the Disability I Never Knew I Had" For 46 years, I lived without knowing I had cerebral palsy.…
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Date 22 August 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Facing change

Something inspirational: "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." UNKNOWN
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Date 21 August 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

About SPD

Sadly for those of us dealing with Sensory Processing Disorder, even if someone tells us something is going to be alright, we don't always know…
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Date 20 August 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Understanding the reasoning

We need to understand the reasoning behind another person’s actions, to understand why they choose to behave in the way they do. Although they’re not…
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Date 19 August 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Disability & being exposed

My mind doesn’t seem to be far away from my disability. Sadly, anyone who deals with a disability may always be exposed, until disability becomes…
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Date 18 August 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A David Baldacci quote

Something inspirational: "Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other." DAVID BALDACCI
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Date 17 August 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Emotionally distressed

Other people’s distress may infect our emotions within moments of us being in their company. After some exposure to emotionally distressed people, we may begin…
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Date 16 August 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Brain Exercises/2

Well this is the second half of last month’s blog on Brain Exercises. It’s massively important that we continue to exercise our brains, particularly as…
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