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 30 September 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by James Joyce

Something inspirational: "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." JAMES JOYCE
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Date 29 September 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Our internal workings

Our emotions have everything to do with our internal workings. Unless we deal with our emotional cognitive framework, which comprises our emotional understanding of the…
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Date 28 September 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Another revelation

There isn’t a day go by, where I’m not having to piece something together based on my Cerebral Palsy diagnosis. Often from nowhere, a conversation…
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Date 27 September 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Time & explanations

Something inspirational: “Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” PAULO COELHO
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Date 26 September 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

A question of spite

I was an angry child, but I wasn’t malicious or spiteful, nor did I have a desire to hurt, or be mean to anyone. Underneath…
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Date 25 September 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Spicy Prawn Spaghetti

Spicy prawns, olives & wholemeal spaghetti Ingredients: 130g Wholemeal Spaghetti 250g Cooked King Prawns 1 sliced red and 1 yellow peppers 20g Black olives 1…
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Date 24 September 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

In the perfect order

Something inspirational: “Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.” VALERY SATTERWHITE
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Date 23 September 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Thinking to fail

On average, we talk ourselves into thinking we’re going to fail, more than we think we’re going to succeed and continue to live our lives…
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Date 22 September 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Yesterday and tomorrow

The past should be a stepping-stone to building a better future. But by bringing memories into the present, and dealing with those, we all ourselves…
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Date 21 September 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

A Gita Bellin quote

Something inspirational: “Every issue, belief, attitude or assumption is precisely the issue that stands between you and your relationship to another human being and between…
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Date 20 September 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Fad Diets Part 2

This is the second part to my Fad diets blog, highlighting fad diet examples. Everyone is talking about how healthy fats are, so people are…
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Date 19 September 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Being defensive

If we listened and understood how other people felt instead of becoming defensive, we’d certainly lighten the load without being defensive and bitter all the…
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