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 18 August 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Our perceptions & realities

Our perceptions are our reality, which become our stories. As we go about our daily lives, we all get caught up in our own stories.…
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Date 17 August 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Animal Fats & Bone Density

How many of us are aware that consuming too much beef, chicken, lamb, duck, pork and milk can rob the body of precious calcium? It…
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Date 16 August 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Feelings of intimidation

It’s usually not what people say, it’s how they say it and that can make us feel intimidated. Some circumstances can make us feel vulnerable.…
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Date 15 August 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

A Gertrude Stein quote

Something inspirational: “Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.” GERTRUDE…
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Date 14 August 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Lifestyle study

There is no question that our predominantly sedentary lifestyles have made us fat. This once again is confirmed in a new analysis of the US…
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Date 13 August 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Finding a niche

Every now and again what we have to deal with acts as a gentle reminder of our life and that often gets in the way.…
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Date 12 August 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Life is short

Something inspirational: “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.” CHARLOTTE BRONTE, Jane Eyre Robin Williams. Rest in…
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Date 11 August 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Respect

My grandparents’ generation had it in abundance. My generation also had its fair share. From a very early age, although I wasn’t consciously aware that…
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Date 10 August 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Other people's stress

Stress isn’t something we can touch or see, but we can learn to recognise its signs. Unfortunately, stress impacts on relationships more than any of…
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Date 9 August 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Talkitt speech device

GUEST BLOG Ordering a cup of coffee; picking up the phone and ordering a pizza; or telling a taxi where to take you should be…
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Date 8 August 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Our cultural lives

We’re born into a culture that society and our parents expect us to conform to and with all cultures there are rules, it doesn’t matter…
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Date 7 August 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

An Aldous Huxley quote

Something inspirational: "Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you." ALDOUS HUXLEY
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