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 16 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Exaggerating problems

Making a big deal out of nothing or a mountain out of a molehill, is a scenario I’m sure we’re all familiar with. By treating…
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Date 15 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Healthy & tasty breakfasts

I’ve written about breakfast being the most important meal of the day, so it’s just as important for us to eat the right foods for…
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Date 14 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

A perfect life

If life were perfect I’d never learn, let alone change anything. If life were perfect I wouldn’t know how to cope when life was less…
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Date 13 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Looking ahead

Today is a brighter day, dull outside but brighter inside. There’s a little bit of everything in today’s blog. A few blogs back, I wrote…
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Date 12 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

The lack of friendship

Something inspirational: “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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Date 11 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Getting on with life

I have always got on with life and have never complained about anything. There would have been no point, no one was listening. There are…
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Date 10 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

The confident life

Looking back at my life, particularly my upbringing, I’m not sure how I would have faired at university had I been allowed to go. There…
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Date 9 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

True friends

Something inspirational: “True friends stab you in the front.” OSCAR WILDE
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Date 8 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Our new life

We’re off to St Andrews today. Our new life begins.
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Date 7 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Good cop, bad cop

Good cop or bad cop parenting, which category do you fall into? Either way both these roles can be damaging. This kind of parenting not…
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Date 6 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Arm's length relationships

Do you know someone who is intent on keeping you in their life on their own terms and at arm's length? It tends to happen…
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Date 5 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Resolve to be happy

Something inspirational: “To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy… is to set our own conditions to the events of each day.…
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