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 6 December 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Why we avoid responsibility

We either block issues out because the issues are too difficult, or when we look back we’re not willing to agree another person’s version of…
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Date 5 December 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Mark Twain

Something inspirational: “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that…
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Date 4 December 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

My emotional deficits

Due to the nature of my cerebral palsy and the damage around my cerebral cortex, I know I am more mentally and emotionally disabled, than…
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Date 3 December 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Another piece of the jigsaw

I’m still learning. While it’s 7 years since I found out about cerebral palsy, I haven’t stopped looking for answers on my neurological issues, in…
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Date 2 December 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

A Buddha quote

Something inspirational: "The trouble is, you think you have time." BUDDHA
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Date 1 December 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Spending time on our own

I did have someone close to me who not only struggled with being alone, he also didn’t like himself, which didn’t help and that added…
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Date 30 November 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Be confident, not arrogant

Many of us who are confident turn out to be arrogant. Over-confidence can spill into arrogance and no one likes arrogance, let alone having to…
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Date 29 November 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

My immature thinking

Age is not always a guarantee of maturity and for me it’s absolutely true. I would love to write a different blog about maturity, of…
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Date 28 November 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

A Jimi Hendrix quote

Something inspirational: "Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens." JIMI HENDRIX
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Date 27 November 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Consciously connecting

Perhaps we need to consciously connect, to rethink our thoughts, particularly where it involves our past, because without our past in check, we will come…
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Date 26 November 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Not knowing gave me hope

It is hard to imagine how not knowing about a diagnosis can give you hope, but for me, that is just what it did. I…
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Date 25 November 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Jack Horner Cocktail

Jack Horner cocktail Well it is nearly Christmas! Ingredients: 1.5ml of cinnamon syrup 20ml of fresh lemon ...
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