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 17 November 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Egos

I know many people who live behind their egos. An ego is a façade; it’s a mask, but it’s not who we really are. It’s the…
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Date 16 November 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

When parents feud

People often think that the only time children have to resist the temptation to act as an intermediary between their parents is when the parents…
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Date 15 November 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Say no

Something inspirational: “You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically—to say no to other things. And the way…
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Date 14 November 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Me and my 'blogs'

As I write, my blogs continue to highlight many of my strengths and some of my weaknesses. My content of my blogs, also continue to…
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Date 13 November 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Two of a kind

It’s never easy being a twin, unless twins are treated as individuals. Neither of us faired any better, or were treated any differently. We attended…
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Date 12 November 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

I want peace

I would like a quiet life, to live as I choose in peace. There is always something or someone stopping me from achieving it. I…
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Date 11 November 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Being sincere

Something inspirational: “The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.” ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
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Date 10 November 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Chemotherapy thoughts

When I begin to look at all my stressors (and we all have them) I go back to my father’s terminal illness. It’s not so…
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Date 9 November 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Owning our behaviour

I believe that when we fail to own even a piece of our life, we begin to hurt others, then we find ten reasons to…
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Date 8 November 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Not feeling great

It’s hasn’t been a great day, nor has it been a great month. Personally, every which way I turn I seem to be looking at…
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Date 7 November 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Understanding

Something inspirational: “The motto should not be ‘Forgive one another,’ rather ‘Understand one another.” EMMA GOLDMAN
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Date 6 November 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Isolation and Denial

I have written blogs here on site about denial, so there’s probably not much more now to say about it, but one last thought came…
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