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 September 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Gratitude

Something inspirational: "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order,…
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Date 17 September 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Paralympians

It is because my cerebral palsy is so mild that I have never considered myself disabled, but having cerebral palsy and watching the opening ceremony…
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Date 16 September 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

My recent thoughts

Dealing with a terminal illness is difficult, but it becomes even more difficult when the cancer advances and it begins to affect the appetite. I’m…
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Date 15 September 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Reaching goals

Something inspirational: “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” BRUCE LEE
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Date 14 September 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Feeling alone

Being alone with our thoughts can bring about peaceful moments in-between those moments where we feel isolated and alone. Solitude can be graceful and with…
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Date 13 September 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Best way of giving

Something inspirational: “To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.” MAX BEERBOHM
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Date 12 September 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Picking fights

I am sure we’ve all had our days where if someone so much as glances at us in the wrong way, we’ll turn and pick…
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Date 11 September 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

How others see us

I’ve often wondered why people interpret the way they see us completely differently, to the way we see ourselves. Unfortunately, other people will not always…
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Date 10 September 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Hippocrates' philosophy

Something inspirational: “A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit…
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Date 9 September 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Comparisons

I’ve never been one to look over my shoulder, what other people have is fine by me. But on my not so good days while…
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Date 8 September 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

About resolve

It’s not surprising that I’ve had another tough summer. With a second operation now behind us and back in our usual university and school routines,…
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Date 7 September 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

A conditioned life

I remember watching a documentary written and presented by Lord Professor Robert Winston who was looking at the differences between human and animal characteristics. It…
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