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 10 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Sensory Processing Disorder

“A child with sensory issues has responses to experiences that are way out of proportion, consistently showing behaviors that can’t be dismissed.” I was intending…
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Date 9 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Setting an example

Being no example is better than being a bad example. As a child, I didn’t think about good or bad examples, not consciously anyway, but…
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Date 8 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Managing Cerebral Palsy

The more I read about Cerebral Palsy, the more I am disillusioned by the lack of support and necessary preparations that could have helped me…
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Date 7 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by George Carlin

Something inspirational: "The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going on." GEORGE CARLIN
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Date 6 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Standing by your morals

Defining, living with and communicating our core values will mean nothing, if those values don’t push us into living better lives. When I look back…
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Date 5 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Taking it out on others

We undermine, we belittle and bring other people down, because we struggle. It’s far easier to bring someone else down, than it is to bring…
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Date 4 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

A Deep Trivedi quote

Something inspirational: “There is no other enemy of a human being except his own nature.” DEEP TRIVEDI, The Pulse of Wisdom
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Date 3 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

How we really feel

How we feel about ourselves is a mirror image of how we will feel about other people. We're conditioned from an early age to think…
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Date 2 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

In a funk

Unfortunately, we don’t always journey through life without a care in the world. Things happen along the way that changes the status quo and changes…
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Date 1 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Fate

Something inspirational: "Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant." UNKNOWN
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Date 31 January 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Turning our backs

The hard part is knowing when it’s time to turn your back on something or someone. There are two trains of thought here. Understanding what…
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Date 30 January 2016
Author Ilana Estelle

Non-recognised milestones

I realise that not only did I miss out on my milestones growing up, because my I struggled to learn, I also struggled to reach…
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