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 26 June 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Establishing Boundaries

Boundaries are a dividing line between what we can and can’t do. They are what parents may put in place to protect their children. Boundaries…
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Date 25 June 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Dealing with setbacks

Setbacks are inevitable, whether you’re striving for perfection, or dealing with difficult people, but once you are able to get beyond your setbacks, you may…
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Date 24 June 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

As in life

Something inspirational: "People say "Don't judge a book by its cover." True, but it goes beyond that. Don't judge a book by its first words,…
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Date 23 June 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Herbal tinctures for anxiety

Anxiety is inevitable. If you begin to feel anxious, worried or nervous about a particular problem, it could be that you have anxiety. Unfortunately, using…
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Date 22 June 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Nobody but myself

Something inspirational: “All my life I had been looking for something and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.  I accepted…
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Date 21 June 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Setting the standards

Parents set the standards. So, one of the most important factors of a child’s upbringing, is what that child may be continually exposed to, from…
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Date 20 June 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Beyond the blame

As adults, how many of us blame our parents for the way we’ve turned out? Funnily enough, I never blamed my parents, instead I chose…
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Date 19 June 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

The road to success

Something inspirational: “The road to success is not straight. There is a curb called Failure, a loop called Confusion; speed bumps called Friends; red lights…
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Date 18 June 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Worrying is contagious

Worrying is like negativity, it’s contagious. Unless I am struggling to understand something, I don’t worry, but it’s hard to be around negative people and…
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Date 17 June 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Post-operative thoughts

I’m not sure how I feel this morning. Some of the old problems aren’t going away, just yet. Like a magnet I seem to be…
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Date 16 June 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

What's meant to be

Something inspirational: “You may not always end up where you thought you were going, but you will always end up where you were meant to…
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Date 15 June 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote from Johnny Depp

Something inspirational: “If there’s any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good to be different, that…
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