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 7 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Worrying & letting go

Something inspirational: “Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. Be patient…
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Date 6 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

The good in bad

How great it would be to grow up around people who choose to support and encourage instead of people who interfere, criticise and only think…
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Date 5 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Apportioning blame

It’s not unusual for parents to be blamed by their children for how their lives turn out. It’s also not uncommon for children to have…
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Date 4 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Muhammed Ali

Something inspirational: “The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” MUHAMMED…
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Date 3 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Risk taking

During our lifetime, some of us will spend a lot of time weighing up the pros and cons and that's right. I tend to assess…
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Date 2 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Working on my week

This weekend hasn’t been the best of weekends, but come to think of it neither has the last week before that, so it’s really not…
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Date 1 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

A closed mind

We close our minds. We close our minds to the possibilities that we may have done okay, but instead convince ourselves we’ve failed. We then…
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Date 31 May 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Allan Rufus

Something inspirational: “Your inner strength is your outer foundation.” ALLAN RUFUS
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Date 30 May 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

A little girl's dream

When I was a little girl, I used to imagine happily ever after scenarios, but as I began to grow up, I slowly came to…
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Date 29 May 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Tomato Enchiladas

Tomato Enchiladas  'This simple recipe is adapted from Marcussamuelsson.com' Ingredients: For the tomato sauce: 1 tbsp olive oil 2 garlic cloves, peeled and finely sliced…
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Date 28 May 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

The facts about CP

Because of a lack of research pertaining to my cerebral palsy and being premature, I am still left with uncertainty as I age. When I…
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Date 27 May 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

A Gerald Jampolsky quote

Something inspirational: “Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.” GERALD G. JAMPOLSKY, Love is Letting Go of Fear
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