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 January 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Love is not about...

Something inspirational: “Love is not about sex, going on fancy dates, or showing off.  It’s about being with a person who makes you happy in…
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Date 15 January 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

No concrete results

Unfortunately, my comprehensive food and drink blood test results have now come back, with no real concrete results on what I really deal with, as…
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Date 14 January 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Changing our thinking

I believe in the ‘universal laws,’ so the sayings ‘like attracts like’ and ‘what goes around comes around’ resonate with me greatly. Universal laws are…
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Date 13 January 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Understanding ourselves

Something inspirational: “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” CARL GUSTAV JUNG
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Date 12 January 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Resisting change

Resistance to change is brought about by our inability to accept that the life we had, isn’t the life we have now. Us resisting, will…
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Date 11 January 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Yet more change

I never seem to get past that point where things just seem to tick over normally, without there being a problem to deal with. I…
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Date 10 January 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

The simple things

Something inspirational: “I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more…
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Date 9 January 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Influences on growing up

We’ve all gone through the process of growing up, with some of us enjoying the experience more than others. It is virtually impossible to determine…
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Date 8 January 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Emotional withdrawal

When we subconsciously fail to deal with our issues, those issues won’t go away, they’ll just get bigger. And by not dealing with our issues,…
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Date 7 January 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Moving forward slowly

It’s taken me a long time to go out of the house due to illness and other problems, so it’s not surprising I feel a…
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Date 6 January 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

A caring friend

Something inspirational: “Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable…
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Date 5 January 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Children and their opinions

When I was growing up children weren’t encouraged to have opinions. Today life is very different, as children from an early age are encouraged to…
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