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 23 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Smoked trout salad

Smoked trout salad 'Adapted from the BBC Good food recipes' Ingredients: 500g Jersey Royal potatoes 125g hot-smoked Trout ...
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Date 22 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Time for change

I wish I’d got to this stage in my life with more control over the decisions I wanted to make, but had no choice. It’s…
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Date 21 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Our choice to forgive

Something inspirational: “Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with…
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Date 20 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

The healing process

When we can accept people’s bad points as well as good, we know we’ve worked through a process of understanding. When we can continue to…
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Date 19 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Website update

The change over to the new servers has been successful. We will be monitoring the site over the next few days to ensure it continues…
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Date 18 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Crossing paths

I have always gone with the belief that things happen for a reason, but I also believe though that things don’t sometimes happen because of…
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Date 17 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Bob Marley

Something inspirational: "Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect - and I don't live to be - but…
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Date 16 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Pressures of change

Our lives are going to change again in three weeks when Claudia leaves home for the first time. With A level results behind her now,…
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Date 15 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Living with conflict

In an ideal world, children will grow up without conflict in their lives, but for many children that doesn’t always happen. I have seen through…
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Date 14 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Those Were the Days

My friends and I would sing 'Those were the days' By Mary Hopkins, whilst waiting for our teacher to turn up before class. A happy…
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Date 13 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Feeling invisible

Does anyone get those days where they begin to feel invisible or transparent, where they're talking but nobody’s listening, where they can’t seem to say…
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Date 12 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Coffee and your Health

Drinking coffee has a long history of being seen as bad for your health.  However, recent research now suggests that coffee may not be so…
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