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 11 May 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

10 portions a day

What started as 5 portions, went up to between 6 and 8 portions a day, now we’re being told that we must eat 10 portions…
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Date 10 May 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A high pain threshold

I’ve had two foot operations, acute appendicitis, fallen down the stairs at the age of 9 and ended up in hospital with a black eye…
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Date 9 May 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Stop drawing comparisons

We must stop comparing our show reel to another person’s show reel. Their show reel isn’t ours, so it would be wrong to draw comparisons…
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Date 8 May 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A Cheryl Strayed quote

Something inspirational: "Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves. And so I chose to tell myself a different story."…
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Date 7 May 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Out of my hands

I know hand on heart that if it wasn’t for my thoughts and bringing clarity on those thoughts, I’d be in a worse off emotional…
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Date 6 May 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Our basic needs

As human beings, we have basic needs. Basic needs in life are what we need if we are to function and function well. We all…
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Date 5 May 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

The CP Diary upgrade

Because the site has been so successful, I also wanted others to have an opportunity to have access to The CP Dairy. The site will…
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Date 4 May 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A Harry Fosdick quote

Something inspirational: "Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written…
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Date 3 May 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

People & their actions

When someone does something that hurts us, it’s easy to see why we would hate that person. Perhaps what we should be solely thinking is,…
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Date 2 May 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Modelling behaviour

We model our behaviour on others and expect them to be as we are, but that’s neither realistic, nor how things should be. We are…
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Date 1 May 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Living in the dark

I liken not knowing that I had Cerebral Palsy for 46 years, to living in a darkened room during that time, only seeing the world…
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Date 30 April 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A Socrates quote

Something inspirational: "It is not living that matters, but living rightly." SOCRATES
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