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 28 January 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

1,000 blogs

As a child concentrating on anything was particularly difficult for me, given what I was dealing with physically, neurologically and emotionally, so having just completed…
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Date 27 January 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Life's events

Something inspirational: “On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you,…
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Date 26 January 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Inevitability of change

We tend to initiate certain changes for ourselves, which we’re okay with, but often when change is imposed on us through circumstances and other people,…
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Date 25 January 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Something beautiful

Something inspirational: “When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold.  They believe that when something's suffered damage…
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Date 24 January 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

What could have been

When I look at my father I see a life not lived and am saddened that he never gave me the opportunities to aspire to…
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Date 23 January 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Confidence and Ability

As a child, always being controlled and told what to do, didn’t fill me with confidence or self-esteem; so it’s not surprising that I never…
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Date 22 January 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Our role

Something inspirational: “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give…
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Date 21 January 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Tips to reduce stress

It doesn’t matter what anyone of us deal with, unless we find ways to reduce stress appropriately, we will always continue to live with stress.…
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Date 20 January 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

It's a moral issue

Unfortunately, the chemotherapy has brought about so many other health problems, but in all fairness to my father’s Consultant, he never promised that if he…
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Date 19 January 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Life's journey

Something inspirational: “No one has a problem with the first mile of a journey. Even an infant could do fine for a while. But it…
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Date 18 January 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Accepting

Given the fact that we are all the product of our individual upbringing, development and experiences, we will feel different about many different issues. Feeling…
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Date 17 January 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Old-fashioned values

As parents we have many roles, but the most important and fundamental of all our roles is to teach our children about values and respect.…
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