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 12 March 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

The wrong impression

We can spend a lifetime giving people the wrong impression. For some, it’s not always intentioned for us give the wrong impression, but for others…
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Date 11 March 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Rationale, an understanding

Given that everything was done for me when I was a child and I didn’t have to rationale anything, I couldn’t know that I struggled…
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Date 10 March 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Our journey

Our journey is for us to make and must never be compared to that of someone else. Our journey may take time, for others it…
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Date 9 March 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A Frank Zappa quote

Something inspirational: “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” FRANK ZAPPA
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Date 8 March 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A reflection on my blogs

Looking through and going back to read some of my earlier blogs, I didn’t realise how damaged my emotions were at the time I set…
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Date 7 March 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Others' conformity

I am more emotionally disabled than I am physically, because it’s my Cerebral Cortex that is extensively damaged. Any neurological disorder will adversely affect normal…
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Date 6 March 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A resistant childhood

We spend our childhoods being told what to do, with parents making sure we do as we’re told. It is possibly one of the worst…
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Date 5 March 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A Marilyn Monroe quote

Something inspirational: "Dogs don't bite me, just humans." MARILYN MONROE
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Date 4 March 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

An other's story to be told

Are we ever happy for another’s story to be told? I’m under no illusion that 'My Story' may never have been told. Throughout my life,…
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Date 3 March 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

My son Tadhg

GUEST BLOG My son Tadhg was born with Cerebral Palsy and Global Developmental Delay, which affects him both physically and intellectually and as a result…
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Date 2 March 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Others' responsibility

We’re not off the hook because we avoid responsibility for our actions, or choose to live in denial. By us choosing to right a wrong…
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Date 1 March 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A Suzy Kassem quote

Something inspirational: “Stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong.” SUZY KASSEM
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