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 September 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

Why Plant Variety Matters

UK Adults Do Not Eat Enough Plants A new study out of King’s College London has looked closely at what we eat, and it makes…
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Date 11 September 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

Living in the Shadow of Invisibility

The Quiet Weight of Feeling Invisible Feeling invisible or overlooked can leave deep wounds of emotional neglect. For much of my life, I carried the…
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Date 10 September 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

The World Covid Revealed

Toxic Divides, Fragile Trust, Choice of Empathy It's vital we're honest: the Covid-19 pandemic didn’t just test our physical and emotional health, it cracked open…
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Date 9 September 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

Carrying the Weight of Depression

Words That Heal Us Both My twin struggled with depression but differently to me, I later learned. She struggled to read my words, this side…
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Date 8 September 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Audre Lorde

Something inspirational: "I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival." AUDRE LORDE
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Date 7 September 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

Another Ayn Rand quote

Something inspirational: “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all.…
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Date 6 September 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

Holding Space for Rest and Reflection

Choosing Rest, Reflection and Intention in Uncertain Times Writing for and managing social media isn't easy. There’s always a crisis unfolding on the social media…
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Date 5 September 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

From Following to Leading: Living Authentically

My Journey to Change Change doesn’t happen until you want it deep enough. I realised I had to stop drifting and start living on my…
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Date 4 September 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Les Brown

Something inspirational: “Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.” LES BROWN
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Date 3 September 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

A Poem by Alison Ramirez

Alison Ramirez Poem... "Love yourself I say to meIt's the only way you will be freeFree from the despairFree to find a way to careAs…
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Date 2 September 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

Surviving Silence: My Life with Undiagnosed Cerebral Palsy

My Journey Living with Cerebral Palsy For over four and a half decades, I carried a conversation inside my own head. I didn’t have answers…
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Date 1 September 2025
Author Ilana Estelle

Resilience and Strength: My Journey in Books

Life is full of challenges we cannot control, yet it is within those very challenges that we often discover our greatest strength. Through my writing,…
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