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 21 December 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Anne Frank

Something inspirational: “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I…
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Date 20 December 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Support has to work

You learn that not all support makes good support. It’s only when you come to lose someone that you have time to reflect where you…
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Date 19 December 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Health problems cont.d

There are days where I look at my life and I’m okay with it because it is what it is, then I’m ill again with…
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Date 18 December 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

A Pema Chodron quote

Something inspirational: “The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the…
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Date 17 December 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Misplaced expectations

As a child we expect our parents to put us first, to make decisions for us that will be for our benefit, above what they…
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Date 16 December 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

S.A.D.

Seasonal Affective Disorder, or S.A.D. as it is widely known, is a recognised form of depression that has a seasonal pattern with episodes of depression occurring at…
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Date 15 December 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Tackling the future

Something inspirational: “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm…
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Date 14 December 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Bone health

Bone health is something we’re all aware of, but probably not something we all practice. Bone health is important at any age. We need strong…
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Date 13 December 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Mini Stollen

Mini Stollen 'Recipe adapted from BBC Food' Ingredients: 175g/6oz dried mixed fruits 50g/2oz Glacé cherries, chopped ...
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Date 12 December 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Envy

As a child growing up with numerous problems, I would periodically look over my shoulder at others and remember unconsciously feeling envy at their ‘normal’…
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Date 11 December 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

A Stephen Hawking quote

Something inspirational: "Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder…
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Date 10 December 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

The problem with school

We’re either worldly or we’re educated, but it’s very hard to be both. It’s a conclusion I reached some years ago. Students aren’t encouraged to…
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