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 26 May 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

How The CP Diary works

For anyone who is interested to know how The CP Diary works. The CP Diary isn’t based on how I see the world, but how…
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Date 25 May 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Opinions formed

Opinions formed and for some of us, that is our biggest bugbear.  Where others seem to have formed opinions about us, or comparisons made without…
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Date 24 May 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Bodhidharma

Something inspirational: “All know the way but few actually walk it.” BODHIDHARMA
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Date 23 May 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Things to change

We will always fail to please others when we fail to please ourselves, we will always fail to trust others when we fail to trust…
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Date 22 May 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Images of illness

When I found out my father was terminally ill, I wasn’t sure I’d be able to watch his declining health. I began to cope reasonably…
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Date 21 May 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Dealing with Guilt

Guilt will always manifest itself ten-fold, if it’s not addressed. Dealing with guilt is not something we easily manage or remedy either. Guilt interferes with…
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Date 20 May 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Freedom and choice

Something inspirational: “Freedom is realizing you have a choice.” T F HODGE
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Date 19 May 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Missing out on life

I’m not sure what’s worse, making choices that turn out to be bad ones, or not having made any choices at all? In hindsight and…
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Date 18 May 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

We choose our path

We choose the life we come into and live the life we choose. It probably sounds odd and is a difficult concept for us to…
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Date 17 May 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

The CP Diary is 4 today

The CP Diary is 4 today.
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Date 16 May 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Sleep study results

Scientists from some of the world’s leading universities at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Manchester and Surrey have warned that cutting our sleep is leading to serious…
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Date 15 May 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

A new understanding

On the 17th May 2014, it will be 4 years since I started my journey with The CP Diary and I’ve become slightly more reflective…
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