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 29 July 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

The art of self-compassion

When I look back at my childhood it’s not difficult to see why I was angry. Living with a disability I didn’t know I had,…
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Date 28 July 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

A story to tell

Jesse Ramos used to have a cerebral palsy blog, but the link is no longer available. If it is reinstated I will put it back…
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Date 27 July 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

It's not about victories

Something inspirational: “We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what’s left is who…
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Date 26 July 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

The next few days

Today I’m going in as a day patient to my local hospital for minor surgery. Nothing serious and I’m not worried. I’d like to add…
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Date 25 July 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Using Empathy and Sympathy

Empathy and sympathy are closely related, but both have different connotations. Empathy is about feeling what someone else feels, whilst sympathy is about action. When…
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Date 24 July 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Tomato and roast pepper soup

Tomato and roast pepper summer soup Ingredients: 4 large red peppers 4 large beef tomatoes ...
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Date 23 July 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Assessing circumstances

Something inspirational: “The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at…
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Date 22 July 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

What keeps us stuck

As we journey through life, we may accumulate various behaviour patterns that can keep us permanently stuck, as those patterns continue to impact our lives.…
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Date 21 July 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Our growth

Something inspirational: “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative.…
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Date 20 July 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Out of sorts

With cerebral palsy, my confidence takes a knock in the summer months. With years of having to conform to the summer months with a physical…
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Date 19 July 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

High Blood Pressure

It is far better to have low blood pressure than it is to have high. Known as the silent killer because its symptoms aren’t obvious,…
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Date 18 July 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Thoughts about learning

Something inspirational: "Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous." CONFUCIOUS
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