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.
I spend my life looking for understanding, because without understanding I struggle. That when we come to understand what we’re dealing with, we take away…
There is a misconception about being happy. Being happy isn’t about making other people happy. We don’t just become happy, because we make other people…
Our emotional suffering on past events will end when we decide we don’t want the struggle anymore. Until then, our unconscious thoughts will continue to…