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 November 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

An Alexander Pope quote

Something inspirational: "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." ALEXANDER POPE
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Date 11 November 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Mental health & obesity

There is a correlation between mental health issues and incidences of obesity. When we have mental health issues, it is not uncommon for us to…
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Date 10 November 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Hidden toxins

It is important to watch out for hidden toxins in our foods. Not everything we put into our mouths that we think is healthy, is…
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Date 9 November 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Reaching boiling point

It takes a steely determination and great effort on our part to begin to recognise our emotions, but we only ever take stock when we…
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Date 8 November 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

A Jim Rohn quote

Something inspirational: "Either you run the day, or the day runs you." JIM ROHN
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Date 7 November 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

A sense of purpose

Growing up not knowing I had Cerebral Palsy has given me a sense of purpose, a purpose to find out what was wrong with me…
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Date 6 November 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Friends first

It's important to be friends. Friends in a marriage or a partnership. Yes, that may seem obvious, but it’s not as obvious as you think.…
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Date 5 November 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Hidden agendas

The human condition is inevitably tragic and I say that with the best of intentions. We’ve come to live in a world where people have…
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Date 4 November 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

A John Ruskin quote

Something inspirational: What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what…
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Date 3 November 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Time to heal

Yesterday I woke up to what was the beginning of a new world and one that I don’t recognise, because of the US election results.…
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Date 2 November 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Not fitting in

There’s a Kurt Cobain quote that goes: "They laugh at me because I’m different; I laugh at them because they’re all the same." For me…
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Date 1 November 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

A question of conformity

Something inspirational: "I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself." RITA MAE BROWN
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