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.

Connect with me:

Blogs by Ilana Estelle

Date 17 October 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

Quiet Traces: The Life My Twin Left Behind

Echoes of the Start Somewhere along the way, what my twin left behind is where I seem to have ended up – and it's not…
Read more
Date 16 October 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Erich Fromm

Something inspirational: "Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction." ERICH FROMM…
Read more
Date 15 October 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

Mental Wellbeing Begins With You

Taking Responsibility for Your Emotional Health Over the years, The CP Diary has become a space for exploring life’s challenges, understanding emotional wellbeing, and learning…
Read more
Date 14 October 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

The Truth About Diet Soda

What It Might Be Doing To Your Liver A new 2025 study presented at the United European Gastroenterology Week has given us something to think…
Read more
Date 13 October 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

Learning to Make Peace with Not Having Peace

Finding Emotional Peace and Truth While Living with a Hidden Disability I used to believe that once I understood what was wrong with me growing…
Read more
Date 12 October 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

An Antonio Porchia quote

Something inspirational: “One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.” ANTONIO PORCHIA "This quote reminds us to live in the hope of becoming a…
Read more
Date 11 October 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

Healing Within: Embracing Our Broken Pieces

Healing Within: Embracing our Broken Pieces Today, I’m thinking about how we all walk through life, carrying pieces of ourselves that sometimes feel broken, disconnected,…
Read more
Date 10 October 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

Patterns of One-Sided Behaviour

When Attention Becomes One-Sided In everyday life, most of us will meet – or sometimes be the person who dominates a space. That space doesn’t…
Read more
Date 9 October 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

The Dissonance of Living Without My Twin

Learning to live in the space between what was and what remains Since losing my twin, I’ve struggled with mental health. The life I knew…
Read more
Date 8 October 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Max de Pree

Food for thought: "Leaders should be able to Stand Alone, Take the Heat, Bear the Pain, Tell the Truth, and Do What's Right." MAX de…
Read more
Date 7 October 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

Jane Goodall: A Reflection on Living the Message

Reflecting and Sitting in Truth "I have some anger around this loss. So many of us liked her, admired her, without listening to her. Without…
Read more
Date 6 October 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

Unwritten Rules, Unlived Life

When Love Comes with Conditions When I look at my life through my eyes, I see a version of me that you built – a…
Read more
1 … 31 32 33 34 35 … 507

Subscribe to receive regular updates

Enter your details below to be the first to receive updates on new articles on my blog. 
© The CP Diary • In Dedication of Jesse Bauer | Privacy Policy
Website Design by Fallen Leaf