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 30 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Generations of behaviour

Family behaviour has a history of repeating itself with future generations. Those behaviour patterns passed through the generations will dictate how we communicate with other…
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Date 29 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Social class

It’s become standard practice to put barriers up to protect ourselves. That way we don’t have to communicate our thoughts to anyone. Behaviour is learned…
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Date 28 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote about control

Something inspirational: “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control…
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Date 27 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

From the heart

It doesn’t matter how much we talk from the heart, sometimes the people we’re trying to talk to, don’t want to hear what we need…
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Date 26 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Unconscious Issues

Letting go of someone or something doesn’t mean we’ve failed. It means we’re no longer willing to put up with a situation or issue we’re…
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Date 25 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Self-control

Something inspirational: “Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over…
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Date 24 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Supporting roles

We end up doing the wrong thing when we struggle emotionally to do what we know is the right thing, but just can’t bring ourselves…
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Date 23 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Warm spring salad

Warm salad of spring vegetables with griddled tuna or salmon Ingredients: 1 bunch asparagus, trimmed and sliced 140g podded peas, frozen are fine ...
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Date 22 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

The simple life

Something inspirational: “To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an…
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Date 21 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

First impressions

As a society, we tend to form judgments about people very quickly. If we see someone who is overweight we’ve already assumed it’s because they’re…
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Date 20 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Forgive and Forget

Something inspirational: “I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a…
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Date 19 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Childhood conditioning

Whether you’re a child or a parent, you will have spent some of your time observing your own parents. It’s how we learn. Although I…
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