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.
It's official, we mustn't skip meals. Research in The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, compared mice that nibbled their food throughout the day with mice that…
Something inspirational: “Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.” WALLACE STEGNER
It isn’t just years of inappropriate behaviour that equates to abuse. Being narrow-minded, controlling, one-sidedness, giving someone the silent treatment, expecting someone to mind read…
Skin cancer is one of the most common cancers. For decades, we have known that ultraviolet-radiation from sunlight bombards our skin and has the potential…
Living with self-pity is like pressing the ‘self-destruct button’, because that’s exactly what we’re doing. When I look back I can resonate with feelings of…
