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 22 March 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Owning change

We want change, but we don’t want to change the process, make the time or the effort. We want change but aren’t willing to put…
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Date 21 March 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

My ups and downs

It’s taken me too many years to understand why I continue to have up and down days. It has taken me too many years to…
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Date 20 March 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

We can't fix other people

Instinctively, there will always be people who want to reach out, people who will want to understand, people who want to help others, people who…
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Date 19 March 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Jack Rose

Something inspirational: “Peace of mind comes when we exercise our right to be honest, especially with ourselves.” JACK R. ROSE
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Date 18 March 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Denial and the facts

Food for thought: Living in denial will never change the facts as much as we’d like to believe they will. We can live in denial,…
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Date 17 March 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Running away

As we continue to protect ourselves by ignoring the truth, we become more exposed than we are protected. It wasn’t so much that I was…
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Date 16 March 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Progress & change

Something inspirational: "Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
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Date 15 March 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Watching our food intake

We are constantly surrounded by messages about food. These are often designed to make us buy and ultimately eat more. Places that sell food are…
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Date 14 March 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

A Terry Pratchett quote

Something inspirational: "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so as a lot of ignorance." TERRY PRATCHETT
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Date 13 March 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Why we should internalise

It is important to be able to internalise your thoughts, not because you’re manic or self-obsessed with things, but because it can help you understand…
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Date 12 March 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

Closing the door

I wake up with the same recurring thoughts whirling through my mind of things wronged, by those who were supposed to support and protect me,…
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Date 11 March 2015
Author Ilana Estelle

An Emily Pankhurst quote

Something inspirational: "My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of…
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