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 4 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Inevitable change

With a few days to go before university, we’re all feeling somewhat apprehensive. It of course comes with the territory before change happens and is…
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Date 3 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Hiding emotional pain

Many of us will develop a protective shell, to shield tender emotions. We show the world we’re okay, telling others we’re okay, then we begin…
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Date 2 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Quote by Rudyard Kipling

Something inspirational: “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business.…
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Date 1 September 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Wasted opportunities

Not being upset that a parent isn’t in our life, doesn’t make us bad people. It highlights things for us that should have been changed…
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Date 31 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Ryan's Story

GUEST BLOG I have been contacted by a young man called Ryan and was very touched by his story and would like to share it…
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Date 30 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Making our own mark

Whilst waiting to go in and see my dentist yesterday, I was reading an article on the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and was just…
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Date 29 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Our own plan

Something inspirational: “Whether you end up in heaven or hell, it's not God's plan it's your own.” COWBOYS & ALIENS
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Date 28 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Wanting to be me

I’ve had to be my own emotional support, so it’s nothing new that I’m still doing it. When I’m around negativity, it reinforces everything that…
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Date 27 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Calcium supplements

As part of my on-going work about the possible benefit of nutrients for my own health, I have been researching recent articles about the effects…
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Date 26 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Socrates

Something inspirational: "Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of, for credit is like fire; when once you have…
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Date 25 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Yet more changes

As university is fast upon us, it’s hard to think that in just two weeks our lives will change again. It’s not just about university,…
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Date 24 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Handling bad news

I’ve never been great at responding to bad news. As a child I would unconsciously talk myself into things as a result of any bad…
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