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 14 January 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Sugar is the new tobacco

Following a new study at Liverpool University, food companies are now being told to cut the amount of sugar because sugar is ‘the new tobacco.’…
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Date 13 January 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

A Salman Rushdie quote

Something inspirational: “Nobody can judge an internal injury by the size of the superficial wound.” SALMAN RUSHDIE, The Satanic Verses
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Date 12 January 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Parents and Children

Although we sometimes disagree with the way our parents parent us, it is not something we can change, but something we can change for our…
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Date 11 January 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Dealing with stress again

I’m having a little bit of a downer on myself today. I seem to have to deal with something every day. I talked in one…
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Date 10 January 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Seeing the whole picture

Something inspirational: “To learn to see - to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to…
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Date 9 January 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

More Sensory Issues

’ve never understood why I always had to be in a routine, until I came across an article from someone with cerebral palsy who has…
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Date 8 January 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Peer Pressure

GUEST BLOG There were probably many times in school when your friends talked you into doing something you wouldn’t have otherwise done. While peer pressure…
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Date 7 January 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

A Lewis Carroll quote

Something inspirational: “I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” LEWIS CARROLL, Alice in Wonderland
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Date 6 January 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

How others define us

It is what we do that makes us who we are. They are characteristics of how we see ourselves and how others see us. I…
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Date 5 January 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Shaping others

A 20th century Catholic monk and writer Thomas Merton, wrote: “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not…
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Date 4 January 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

A Charlotte Bronte quote

Something inspirational: "Better to be without logic than without feeling." CHARLOTTE BRONTE
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Date 3 January 2014
Author Ilana Estelle

Being mindful

Two things tend to hold us back. Worrying about how things will turn out in the future before the future’s happened and unconsciously thinking about…
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