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 18 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Feelings now

After a year of stress, my situation has changed again after my father’s passing and although my life is more peaceful, there is no getting…
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Date 17 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by James Dean

Something inspirational: “There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.” JAMES DEAN
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Date 16 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Our Legacies

Our legacy is something we leave behind and is what people remember us by, long after we’ve left these shores. Our contributing legacies I'm not…
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Date 15 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

It is what it is

I am not sure why ‘it is what it is’ was on my mind today, but perhaps the situation with my parents gone, has brought this…
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Date 14 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Letting go

Something inspirational: “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.” KAHLIL GIBRAN
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Date 13 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

A week passed

I dedicate this blog to anyone who is still going through, or has gone through dealing with a relative who is terminally ill. It’s been…
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Date 12 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Misguided assumptions

It’s funny how people will comment about a child’s success and then query at the same time how it’s even possible given the child’s parentage.…
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Date 11 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Your life's best day

Something inspirational: “The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No…
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Date 10 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

After the storm

As with all bereavements, life goes on after the funeral. My thoughts are calm. The mopping up process will begin next week. For now I’m…
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Date 9 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Conspicuous by absence

Although I went to my father’s funeral, I’m not unhappy about it because I know he’s finally at peace. From my own experience of funerals…
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Date 8 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

The tragedy of life

Something inspirational: “The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.” NORMAN COUSINS
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Date 7 March 2013
Author Ilana Estelle

Parallel lives

As a young adult, I used to see the passing of someone as a final gesture, not something that was an extension of where they…
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