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 15 April 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

A Jim Morrison quote

Something inspirational: “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade…
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Date 14 April 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Quinoa

Quinoa (pronounced "KEEN-wah") is a grain, grown in South America (namely Chile, Peru and Bolivia) for thousands of years, is now heralded as a super…
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Date 13 April 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

We choose not to see

As children, we live our lives without questioning our parents, siblings or our lives, their roles in our lives, however bad those roles turn out…
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Date 12 April 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

A Benjamin Franklin quote

Something inspirational: “Many people die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.” BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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Date 11 April 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Confirmation, a sign

Every now and again, something will come into our lives briefly as a sign to show that the universe understands, even if it can’t change…
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Date 10 April 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Choose to walk away

Just a thought: There are some people who always seem angry and continuously look for conflict. The battle they’re fighting isn’t with you, it’s with…
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Date 9 April 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

A Deidre Wallace quote

Something inspirational: "What you internalise from your parent’s relationship will affect all your relationships." DEIDRE WALLACE
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Date 8 April 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Cognitive symptoms

It’s apt that my 1800th blog is about traumatic brain injury and The CP Diary was borne out of me discovering at the age of…
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Date 7 April 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Lost & labelled

It’s easier if we don’t have to deal with it, therefore she can’t know. That was my life, not knowing I had Cerebral Palsy for…
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Date 6 April 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Judgment & experience

Something inspirational: "Good judgment comes from experience and experience, well that comes from poor judgment." A A MILNE
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Date 5 April 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Glossing over

I never gloss over anything. If I’m struggling I’ll tell you I’m struggling. If I’ve got a problem with someone, I’ll tactfully find a way…
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Date 4 April 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

When it's right to assume

I never assume. I ask questions then I know, so then I don’t have to assume, or live with an outcome I don’t want. But…
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