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 2 May 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Withdrawing from life

I don’t look for comparisons in other people, I tend to concentrate on my own life, but every now and again I will see a…
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Date 1 May 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Facing life's challenges

Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve had to work around a different perspective, a perspective that would give me an understanding of what…
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Date 30 April 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Acceptance and recovery

Something inspirational: “Understanding is the first step to acceptance and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” J. K. ROWLING
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Date 29 April 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Dark Chocolate

The health benefits of dark chocolate have been the subject of many recent studies and the outcome of these is that benefits are now widely…
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Date 28 April 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

A new thought pattern

I’m pleased I’m not seeing my children moving away from home as being a problem. I love the fact that they’re independent and mature enough…
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Date 27 April 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Secret Sorrows

Something inspirational: “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only…
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Date 26 April 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Making allowances

We spend our lives making allowances for people. As parents, we make allowances. We compensate or allow for things depending on what our children have…
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Date 25 April 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Don't dwell

If you’ve never had something but wish you did, continuing to wish for it won’t help. If you know you can’t change something, accept that…
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Date 24 April 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

About friends

Something inspirational: “Friends are the family you choose (- Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).” JESS C. SCOTT
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Date 23 April 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Avocado salad

Avocado salad Ingredients: Large packet of mixed leaf salad 2 roughly chopped red or orange pepper ...
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Date 22 April 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

A lifetime of regrets

Sometimes we do things in our life that we later go on to regret, or something we didn't do that perhaps we should have done.…
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Date 21 April 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Jealousy

As a child growing up with a disability that I didn’t know I had, I was happy to me. There were things I wanted to…
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