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 January 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Explaining bad moods

We could be forgiven or even justified for being in a bad mood, because now there’s an explanation. Some Psychologists believe moods are brought about…
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Date 25 January 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

The critics

Something inspirational: “When dealing with critics always remember this: critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.” SHANNON L. ALDER
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Date 24 January 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Mental Health Issues

Mental health is the psychological state of someone who functions at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioural adjustment. To admit we deal with issues,…
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Date 23 January 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Empathy and Relationships

It helps when people have empathy towards each other. It also helps to be around others who are empathetic, but does it make relationships or…
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Date 22 January 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

A Da Vinci quote

Something inspirational: “There are three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.” LEONARDO DA VINCI
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Date 21 January 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Succumbing to illness

I’ve succumbed to illness again, which I’ve managed to avoid since Christmas, when my family became ill with cold & flu symptoms. A couple of…
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Date 20 January 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Correcting behaviour

If you’re unfortunate to be born into a dysfunctional family where there’s no parent taking responsibility, or one parent’s being given too much responsibility and…
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Date 19 January 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Dealing with fear

Something inspirational: “A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.” J.R.R. TOLKIEN, The Children…
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Date 18 January 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

The way we see things

“We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.” – Anais Nin. How different relationships would be, how much easier our…
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Date 17 January 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Unassuming qualities

My grandmother was unassuming. I loved her unassuming personality and that quality in her. There were many other endearing qualities of hers that I embraced.…
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Date 16 January 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Forget your regrets

Something inspirational: “Don't fret over what you regret, just forget.” LINDA GUAN
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Date 15 January 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Disappointed with ourselves

How many times have we uttered the words, ‘I’m so disappointed with myself’ and mean every word, because it’s truly how we feel? If we…
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