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 23 September 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Courgette loaf cake

Courgette loaf cake 'My version of a recipe adapted from BBC Good Food' Ingredients: 350g courgettes, coarsely grated 2 eggs ...
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Date 22 September 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

The Write & Burn Letter

Not everyone will have the opportunity to speak to their parents about unresolved childhood issues that continue to affect them. Whilst I would always recommend…
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Date 21 September 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Getting an education

Something inspirational: “If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” RUDYARD KIPLING
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Date 20 September 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

The fear of change

The fear of change. Why do we fear it? It’s not the change itself that we fear, it’s the adjustment that causes the stress that…
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Date 19 September 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Courage & success

Courage isn’t something we’re born with. It’s not something afforded to us, bought or even something we can borrow. It’s an inward behaviour that if…
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Date 18 September 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

A Winston Churchill quote

Something inspirational: “We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.” WINSTON CHURCHILL
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Date 17 September 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

An other's decisions

It’s accepted that when we’re little, our parents make the decisions for us, that as we grow they will encourage us to make our own…
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Date 16 September 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Family & issues

Some families have a lot to answer for. Too often issues are brought into the equation by other family members that don’t belong to us…
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Date 15 September 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Inflexible thinking

There are people who genuinely live with difficulties in accepting change, shifting thoughts, making transitions and who demonstrate forms of inflexibility. Inflexible patterns will become…
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Date 14 September 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

A Harper Lee quote

Something inspirational: “The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.” HARPER LEE, To Kill a Mockingbird
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Date 13 September 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Negative emotions

We often learn more from negative emotions than we do positive ones, but I wouldn’t suggest anyone hold on to them. They can be damaging…
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Date 12 September 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Ice cream: the facts

With summer firmly behind us, there’s a debate over ice cream, how healthy it is and how much we should really consume? Ice cream used…
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