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 13 September 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Antioxidants in Foods

Antioxidants slow down or prevent oxidisation of our cells. They are the nutrients found in food. When our body cells use oxygen, they naturally produce…
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Date 12 September 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Water

As children, we may not always be encouraged to drink water, but without drinking the right amount of fluids daily, everything we do as far…
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Date 11 September 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Urinary issues & CP

Any website you look at for cerebral palsy, will always mention something about urinary and bowel issues, because its common for those of us who…
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Date 10 September 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Genetic illness

As individuals we are unique. We have different strengths and weaknesses and different levels of resilience. Some of us are born to family who have…
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Date 9 September 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

The role of vitamins

Growing up, it was my mum who had an interest in health and health products. I’m not sure why, but I remember it being like…
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Date 8 September 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Resting

Ever had one of those days where you don't achieve anything? Well this is one of those days. Daniel is going back to St Andrews…
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Date 7 September 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Goodbye to negative feelings

This is the first time in a long time that I have had so many negative feelings, brought on by so much negativity going on…
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Date 6 September 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Staying healthy

I know it’s not realistic to anticipate that with our busy and hurried lifestyles, our 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day will always…
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Date 5 September 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

My not so good day

My not so good thoughts are back today. I am usually strong, but then I have my moments of losing clarity, feelings of despondency, feeling…
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Date 4 September 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Working through the past

In my previous blog, I wrote about taking responsibility for our past so that we can move on and look to our future, but like…
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Date 3 September 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

A parent thing

I am sure none of us consciously bring up our children to believe that it has to be our way and if it’s not our…
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Date 2 September 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

The CP Diary

I started the CP Diary so that I could work on my emotional and physical problems having had no emotional support as a child, and…
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