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 13 September 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

The need to be proactive

I haven’t always been strong, determined or confident. Truth be known, growing up I was the complete opposite. I needed to stop relying on others…
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Date 12 September 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Ability & education

I remember a conversation that took place years ago with a relative who thought that being born to uneducated parents meant their children would also…
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Date 11 September 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Believing what we're told

If we’re told something and it becomes continuous, after a while we will begin to believe that what we’re told. For example, if we’re told…
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Date 10 September 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

A Bruce Lee quote

Something inspirational: "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect." BRUCE LEE
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Date 9 September 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Compensatory senses

Over the years, my senses have compensated for the lack of conscious awareness of feeling, arising from extensive damage to my Cerebral Cortex, brought about…
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Date 8 September 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Spiritual and Emotional Growth

When we fail to open our minds to the possibilities of what we can learn and how we can change, we will always inhibit spiritual…
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Date 7 September 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Judgment & non-diagnosis

I know that had I have known what was wrong with me all those years ago, I wouldn’t have been judged on my lack of…
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Date 6 September 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Doing what's right

Something inspirational: "Never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the wellbeing of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small…
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Date 5 September 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Understanding my anxiety

I am always finding ways to bring about more understanding of my neurological symptoms, to find an explanation for the things I deal with daily.…
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Date 4 September 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Petty and Mean Behaviour

I am sure we’ve all come across people in our lives, the ones who are petty, mean and added to that, those who facilitate bad…
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Date 3 September 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Children & respect

As a child, it didn’t matter what my parents said, I was respectful. I never stopped to question their authority or their decisions. We’re not…
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Date 2 September 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Plato

Something inspirational: "The greatest wealth is to live content with little." PLATO
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