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 29 October 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Anticipate

I anticipate my next move, not because I’m ready, but I know that if I don’t, what I fail to anticipate may blow up in…
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Date 28 October 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Butternut squash soup

Butternut squash soup Ingredients: 1.5kg (3lb) Squash Olive oil to drizzle ...
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Date 27 October 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

The conventional view

Something inspirational: “The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.” JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
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Date 26 October 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Challenging our thoughts

I believe we must challenge and continue to challenge our thoughts, because that’s the only way we’ll begin to understand our life and the way…
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Date 25 October 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Unconscious reckoning

Our unconscious thoughts play their part in our conscious every day conversations. For example, resentment provoked by angry conflicts between two people, will automatically encapsulate…
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Date 24 October 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Anticipating problems

Something inspirational: "Dig the well before you are thirsty." CHINESE PROVERB
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Date 23 October 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Caring less

I was a pleasing child and cared too much. Then I learned it was more important to please myself that in fact I needed to…
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Date 22 October 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Emotions & disability

A disability is difficult for the child with the disability. Not only is a disability difficult for the child, but it can be difficult for…
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Date 21 October 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

A Soichiro Honda quote

Something inspirational: "The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred." SOICHIRO HONDA
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Date 20 October 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Effects of Aluminium

You might be surprised to discover that the metal aluminium is the 3rd most abundant element in the earth’s crust, after oxygen and silicon. In…
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Date 19 October 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

What is normal?

I’ve asked myself this question many times before. What is normal? What one person perceives as being normal, another person won’t. My definition of normal…
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Date 18 October 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

A Noel Fitzpatrick quote

Something inspirational: "People don't care what you know until they know that you care." PROFESSOR NOEL FITZPATRICK, veterinary surgeon
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