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 February 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Learning to let go

I just couldn’t let go of the fact that the heels on my shoes would never wear uniformly because I had a difference in leg…
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Date 18 February 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Our ability to change

The good thing about the human condition is that we have the ability to think, feel, see and understand how to change things, unlike computers…
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Date 17 February 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Judgment by association

We get a bad press. We’re judged, not because we’ve said or done something to the other person, but by association and usually with family.…
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Date 16 February 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Worthy of success

Something inspirational: “As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.” BRENDAN FRASER
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Date 15 February 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

The Mediterranean Diet

There are certain types of food in The Mediterranean Diet of varying proportions that has been shown to reduce the risks of developing heart disease,…
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Date 14 February 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Self-awareness

We spend much of our lives without really getting to know us, without even touching the surface. It takes many years for us to get…
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Date 13 February 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

The niceness gene

For generations, being kind to others is something we assumed we learned from our parents. Recent studies have questioned whether this is indeed the case…
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Date 12 February 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Life without failure

Something inspirational: “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at…
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Date 11 February 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

The proverbial chip

I’ve spent my life living with people who carry the proverbial chip. The chip they carry seems to be permanently etched deep in their unconscious.…
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Date 10 February 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Bringing out the worst

It would be lovely to think people only want to bring out the best in us, but there are those who will continually insist on…
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Date 9 February 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Goldie Hawn

Something inspirational: “The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order…
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Date 8 February 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

A sad reflection

It’s sad when people spend all their lives in their own little world. They’re not pro-active, they unconsciously don’t change anything, then something happens and…
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