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 22 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Growing pains

The things I didn’t like growing up, were the fact that I had one leg shorter than the other, a club foot and very little…
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Date 21 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

A Carlos Zafon quote

Something inspirational: “People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.” CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON, The Shadow of the Wind
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Date 20 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Understanding our worth

As a child, I used to think that giving up, meant it was because we had no staying power and that we were emotionally weak.…
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Date 19 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Children taking sides

Childhood experiences often show that adult relationships aren’t always happy ones and that even if children don’t see problems from the outset, it doesn’t mean…
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Date 18 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Changing personalities

How we see ourselves in a close relationship, can prompt us to alter how we define our identities, both in negative and positive ways. Our…
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Date 17 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

An Emma Watson quote

Something inspirational: "The less you reveal the more people can wonder." EMMA WATSON
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Date 16 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

The benefits of oats

Oats are a low GI food and are naturally gluten free. They are not related to grains containing gluten like rye, barley or wheat. Unfortunately,…
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Date 15 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Exercises for children

I love to research things that have the potential to make our lives better, easier and healthier. Although I am limited to what exercises I…
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Date 14 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Finding ourselves

If I had advice to give anyone, it would be to be in a particular state of mind, and know what you want from life,…
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Date 13 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

A Jamie Gonzalez quote

Something inspirational: "Strength is in presence." JAMIE GONZALEZ
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Date 12 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Settling for second best

We mustn’t settle for second best and yet that is what we do, what some of us have always done. It’s not that we consciously…
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Date 11 April 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Bringing awareness

Bringing awareness to our emotions brings reasoning, where we didn’t have reasoning and where we have reasoning, we can work on change. Bringing awareness helps…
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