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 24 October 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

How to be humble

Something inspirational: “With humility comes the willingness to stop trying to control or change other people or life situations or events ostensibly ‘for their own…
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Date 23 October 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Building blocks of confidence

Confidence is something we all need to work at. It’s not something I had in abundance as a child but as the adult I know…
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Date 22 October 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

The cold shoulder

Have you ever been given the cold shoulder for something you’ve said, or are constantly being ignored by someone, but you have no idea why?…
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Date 21 October 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Ladder of life

Something inspirational: “If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set…
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Date 20 October 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

My to do list

The good news is that today I have reached a total of 900 blogs. The bad news is I’ve been dealing with confidence and self-esteem…
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Date 19 October 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Being privileged

We were privileged if our parents could afford to buy us new clothes, but the world isn’t privileged. Children aren’t always given new clothes to…
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Date 18 October 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Selfless

Something inspirational: “Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.” MARILYNNE ROBINSON
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Date 17 October 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Accepting oneself

Something inspirational: “Everybody has a part of their body that she doesn’t like, but I’ve stopped complaining about mine because I don’t want to critique…
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Date 16 October 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

I can't think today

I can’t think today. I woke up last night with the same feeling in the pit of my stomach that something wasn’t right, the feeling…
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Date 15 October 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Our ability to care

Ever since I was a small child, I have had people in my life who unconsciously cared, but consciously didn’t know how to care. I…
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Date 14 October 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Books

Something inspirational: “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of…
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Date 13 October 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

A general malaise

I’ve had the worst week imaginable and I’m not feeling great about things. There is a feeling of general malaise, everyone around me seems to…
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