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 15 November 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Wasting time

Something inspirational: “Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.” MICHAEL LEBOEUF
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Date 14 November 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Shifting our focus

It’s fascinating how when we spend too much time dwelling on the negatives, we miss out on other things. It’s easy to dwell and natural…
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Date 13 November 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Diabetes

Diabetes is a potentially life threatening condition that causes a person's blood sugar level to become too high. Here in the UK, it is thought…
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Date 12 November 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Emotional scarring

It’s difficult to carry emotional scars and move forward. Emotional scarring, although part of a particular event or circumstance, consumes our waking thoughts, perceptions and…
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Date 11 November 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Keeping our cool

Something inspirational: “Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.” THOMAS JEFFERSON
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Date 10 November 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Issues are lessons

I believe the issues we deal with are our lessons and that if we were to stand back and look at those issues, we would…
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Date 9 November 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Sowing a seed

As a child, I said very little. I wasn’t encouraged to think for myself, so I thought more than I said. Years on, I do…
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Date 8 November 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Lao Tzu

Something inspirational: “The best fighter is never angry.” LAO TZU
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Date 7 November 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

The little accomplishments

Isn’t it funny that we only see the big accomplishments; the little accomplishments we don’t see or even acknowledge. They come in many forms, but…
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Date 6 November 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Persistence

It’s an all too common scenario when the younger generation isn’t frightened to give up the reality that doesn’t quite fit their expectations. After all,…
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Date 5 November 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Spielberg

Something inspirational: "My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb…
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Date 4 November 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Michaela's story

GUEST BLOG Alison Kjeldgaard from World of Children Award has contacted me and told me about Michaela Mycroft, a 19-year-old girl who has cerebral palsy…
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