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 11 March 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Supporting families

Relationships may seem difficult when families pull in different directions. We may pull in different directions when we work independently of each other, when we’re…
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Date 10 March 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Crisis and Opportunity

Something inspirational: “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a…
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Date 9 March 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Rational and Irrational Fear

I had trauma around me from a very early age and even though I was physically well, emotionally those fears from time to time, became…
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Date 8 March 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Working at illness

I was always removed from being around anyone who was terminally ill when I was little, but if and when I did hear about someone’s…
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Date 7 March 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Infinite choice-makers

Something inspirational: "You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we…
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Date 6 March 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Today's new thoughts

It would be easy for me to hibernate with everything I deal with. Dealing with a family member having cancer is the most difficult time.…
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Date 5 March 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Being responsible

Something inspirational: “If you find you’re here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change…
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Date 4 March 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Unexpected visitors

Someone once said it was fascinating, how when someone is terminally ill, we crawl out of the woodwork unexpectedly, to pay our respects, even though…
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Date 3 March 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

Illness and Anger

It’s easy to become angry around negative experiences, but it’s important to deal with those experiences so that anger doesn’t take consume us. Talking about…
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Date 2 March 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

From difficult times

Something inspirational: “It may seem hard to extend our gratefulness and appreciation to the time in which we live and the challenges it presents-to financial…
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Date 1 March 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

A beautiful quote

Something inspirational: “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who,…
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Date 29 February 2012
Author Ilana Estelle

What makes us happy?

Because emotions aren’t an exact science, do we really know how to be happy? Is being happy something we fleetingly come in and out of?…
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