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 12 October 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Selfless parenting

Even with our own insecurities, it’s important we parent children in a way we would want to have been parented ourselves, even if that didn’t…
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Date 11 October 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Toxic behaviour

Toxic people may not inherently be bad people, but they’re clearly not the people we would want to spend our free time with. When it…
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Date 10 October 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Eating smaller meals

Those of us who eat smaller multiple meals every day, eat better and weigh less than their counterparts, who eat fewer but larger meals. People…
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Date 9 October 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Elizabeth Elliot

Something inspirational: "Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith." ELIZABETH ELLIOT
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Date 8 October 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Make lemonade

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” We can have lemons or we can make lemonade. We can encourage optimism and a can-do attitude in…
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Date 7 October 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Closing doors

Unconsciously, in our mind we close the door because of our inability to see our worth. We close the door because of our negative thinking…
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Date 6 October 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Charles Darwin

Something inspirational: “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” CHARLES DARWIN, The Life & Letters…
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Date 5 October 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Unpredictable Sensory Issues

It’s always scary when my sensory issues become unpredictable. They make the issues that I deal with much more difficult, because I don't always know…
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Date 4 October 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

My health thoughts

Living every day with a condition we’re born into, where there is no cure is like living with a cloud over our heads. Because I…
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Date 3 October 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

A Sarah Dessen quote

Something inspirational: “Don't think or judge, just listen.” SARAH DESSEN
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Date 2 October 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

A late learner

By the time we’ve got into our twenties having made it through our adolescence years, we’ve usually managed to fathom ourselves out, what makes us…
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Date 1 October 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Our whole selves

If we break a leg, we have a broken leg, but then how does a broken leg constitute us being broken? We’re broken, well not…
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