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 25 November 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Chicken & Lentil One-Pot

Easy One-Pot Chicken With Lentils Ingredients: 1 tsp vegetable oil 4 large bone-in chicken thighs, skin removed ...
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Date 24 November 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Quote of the week

Something inspirational: “Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.” RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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Date 23 November 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Comfort zones

This topic is something I think we can all resonate with in one way or another, but if you’re lucky enough to have worked through…
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Date 22 November 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

My pre-disposition

It is true that we can be predisposed to certain diseases that we can change, so that we don’t inherit something that someone in our…
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Date 21 November 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

How I'm feeling

Although I managed to write another blog yesterday, I was still dealing with emotional stuff this week concerning my Cerebral Palsy. This morning I am…
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Date 20 November 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

All about sleep

Researchers now agree with each other that we need between seven to nine hours of sleep that goes largely uninterrupted. Obviously not sleeping in the…
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Date 19 November 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

How I'm feeling about CP

I’m still blogging on the subject of Cerebral Palsy and seeing my Neurologist went well, but I feel frustrated and let down now by those…
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Date 18 November 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Working through things

This is where I’m at today. Having been to see another Neurologist yesterday, I came away feeling slightly negative, although the meeting wasn’t altogether negative.…
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Date 17 November 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Motivation

Yesterday was a non-starter. I’m not sure where it came from, but when I came to exercise in the morning, I managed no more than…
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Date 16 November 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Why support is important

I have never made my lack of emotional support as a child an issue, because in my mind I was self-sufficient, I got by. But…
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Date 15 November 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Benjamin Franklin

Get inspired with inspirational quotes: “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man, healthy, wealthy and wise.” BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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Date 14 November 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

More thoughts, ageing with Cerebral Palsy

Ageing with Cerebral Palsy doesn’t please me. I have a pit in the stomach feeling every time I think about it. On the whole I…
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