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 28 February 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A Peaceful and Proactive Place

In a world that is fast changing, it would be easy to feel demoralised, anxious and stressed. Given the rhetoric that’s going on in the…
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Date 27 February 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Breakfast Oatmeal Smoothie

Breakfast Oatmeal Smoothie 'Provides a good proportion of your daily fruit and vegetable intake.' Ingredients: 1 ripe banana 1 apple or 1 pear ...
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Date 26 February 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Conditional love

We say we love and yet the love we give is conditional. We don’t do something for nothing, we do something to have something back…
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Date 25 February 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A Henry James quote

Something inspirational: "Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is…
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Date 24 February 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Being invisible

Although I grew up in an era when children were seen and not heard, those times made it easier for me to become invisible. Why…
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Date 23 February 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Our Stories

I feel fortunate to have created a platform where I can use my experiences to talk about my story and that of my experiences. Our…
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Date 22 February 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Listening attentively

We listen to what we want to hear. If what we’re being told doesn’t concur with our own thoughts, beliefs or how we see our…
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Date 21 February 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Frank A. Clark

Something inspirational: “Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.” FRANK A. CLARK
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Date 20 February 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

What we see and what we get

In a world that has become more divisive we should be unique, open and honest, but what we see isn’t always what we get. We…
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Date 19 February 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

Doing things to spite

We can choose to do things to spite, or we can choose to do things in spite. It takes a certain type of character to…
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Date 18 February 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

A Deepak Chopra quote

Something inspirational: “On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you,…
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Date 17 February 2017
Author Ilana Estelle

High Intensity Interval Training

High Intensity Interval Training is a strategy that involves alternating short periods of intense exercise, with less intense recovery periods. The idea is that we…
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