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 19 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Vegetable and feta tart

Feta tart with grilled vegetables 'This is based on a recipe from the BBC Good Food guide'  Ingredients:  2 tbsp olive oil 1 diced small…
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Date 18 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Listening to ourselves

Taking advice from ourselves is often a difficult thing to do, primarily because we’re not always aware of what we want and because we often…
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Date 17 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Oscar Wilde

Something inspirational: “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” OSCAR WILDE
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Date 16 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Repeating history

Many of us will go on to repeat history instead of creating our own, because we see our parents’ failing as ours. We think there…
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Date 15 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

My vulnerable side

It’s easy for me to talk about what I deal with and what I feel. As long as I can remember I’ve always been like…
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Date 14 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Rob Liano

Something inspirational: “Don’t ever perceive other people’s success as your own failure.” ROB LIANO
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Date 13 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

We're over things

We’re over things. We tell ourselves we don’t blame, we tell ourselves we don’t hold grudges, but our body language and behaviour tell a different…
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Date 12 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

A low day

It’s that time of year again and I’m struggling to find shoes to fit that aren’t boots. I’m not sure whether I am resigned to…
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Date 11 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

The health risks of red meat

In a large US study reported in the New Scientist, November 2006 that looked at the dietary intake of protein in almost 90,000 female nurses to…
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Date 10 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Spilt milk

Something inspirational: “Let us cry for the spilt milk, by all means, if by doing so we learn how to avoid spilling any more. Let us…
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Date 9 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Our ability to cope

As adults, we’re expected to fit into an adult world, adapt into our circumstances and adapt into our lives, but all that starts in childhood.…
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Date 8 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Different but the same

Perhaps it is a cultural thing, a feature of the behaviour of a certain generation, but there are parents who tend not to treat their…
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