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 14 June 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Finding a balance

How many of us may start off with good intentions without turning what we do into an obsession? For example those with a sweet tooth…
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Date 13 June 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

My anxieties

I remember my father telling me that he thought my mum had claustrophobia. I know she was dealing with anxiety, because I also deal with…
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Date 12 June 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Standing still

Even though a new set of circumstances can seem different, they can also feel very much the same. I know I’m not back at square…
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Date 11 June 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Dalai Lama teachings

“With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world. According to my own experience, self-confidence is…
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Date 10 June 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Whine, whine, whine

How many people you might know who go through life whining, without actually doing anything to solve their problems? Whining never stops If I have…
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Date 9 June 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

It won't happen to me

It won’t happen to me may be applied to many situations, but it always seems to be something that happens to someone else, except when…
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Date 8 June 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Doubting our abilities

Something inspirational: “To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long…
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Date 7 June 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Life is a challenge

Something inspirational: “Far too many of us live lives of worry, rather than lives of joy. It doesn’t have to be that way. Every life…
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Date 6 June 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Full of hope

As a child, it didn’t matter what I was dealing with, I always lived with hope. For me hope was positive, it was a faith,…
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Date 5 June 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

My feelings on change

The person I was at 25 is not the same person I am today. Some of us may breeze through life following the same patterns…
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Date 4 June 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote about trust

Something inspirational: "Trust is rebuilt by focusing not on what the other person did or did not do but on critiquing one's own behavior, improving…
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Date 3 June 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Our cruel world

In the last two years working and working through the assault, there were times where I struggled mentally to equate what had happened. Things just…
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