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 5 March 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Parenting

Being a parent is difficult no matter the age of our children. We’re not given a book on how to instinctively parent, but we’re still…
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Date 4 March 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

A Goldie Hawn quote

Something inspirational: “You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it." GOLDIE HAWN
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Date 3 March 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Enormously proud

It would go on to take many years for my father to say he was enormously proud of me, but when he did, it eventually…
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Date 2 March 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Decision making foundations

Every day, we are inundated with making daily decisions, some small decisions and some decisions that aren’t so small, but end up being life changing.…
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Date 1 March 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Disability in 2016

Enough is still being done to get disability out into the public domain and to keep it there. Unfortunately, disability is just one area in…
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Date 29 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by W. Allston

Something inspirational: “Never judge a work of art by its defects.” WASHINGTON ALLSTON
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Date 28 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Humility & inclusion

“I think we can’t go round measuring our goodness by what we don’t do… by what we deny ourselves … what we resist and who…
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Date 27 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Learning to like ourselves

How many of us like ourselves and if we don’t like ourselves, how then can we be honest with ourselves? Unless we learn to like…
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Date 26 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by June Ahern

Something inspirational: “How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.” JUNE AHERN
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Date 25 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Criticisms

Being self-critical stems from our core beliefs which, unless corrected, will continue. But how many of us are aware that each time we say something…
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Date 24 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Toxic people

Food for thought: We’ve probably all come across people in our lives who are toxic. They’re in our environments, and in our lives too. If…
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Date 23 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Gluten-free Cherry Bake

Gluten-free Cherry Bake 'A wonderful recipe adapted from Great British Chefs' Ingredients: 75g of unsalted butter, soft 150g of caster sugar ...
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