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 3 July 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Staying positive

I find that my days always have a marked effect on my mood around what I deal with emotionally around cerebral palsy. I can start…
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Date 2 July 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Foods that help Depression

As an add on to my Depression blogs, we know that dietary changes can help bring about changes in the structure of the brain, both…
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Date 1 July 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Depression, regular exercise

The last thing anyone wants to do when they’re depressed is exercise, but studies have shown that exercise if taken regularly, can be effective at…
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Date 30 June 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Depression, taking care of yourself

Taking care of yourself, of your mental health, is one of the important thing you can do to help you overcome depression. It is also…
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Date 29 June 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Supportive relationships

Finding the right support is the key to keeping depression at bay, but when it comes to maintaining a positive perspective, dealing with depression can…
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Date 28 June 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Depression

If being locked inside your heard, without drive, energy or motivation is depression, then that is what I have. Being locked away is never a…
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Date 27 June 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Acceptance

I know what this feels like. In society and in the home very few people look beyond a person’s disability to see the real person…
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Date 26 June 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Signs of personal growth

When anyone is at one with themselves, they feel whole, happy and are in sync with themselves. They don’t take offence, are not easily wounded,…
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Date 25 June 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Watch this space

I live with and manage Cerebral Palsy, but I need to also have good health. Good health is the catalyst for me managing Cerebral Palsy…
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Date 24 June 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Healing conflict from within

Conflict is an inevitable part of life. However hard we try, it’s not easy to avoid conflict, but the stronger we are the more easily…
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Date 23 June 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Venting

I’m having one of those days playing catch up and waiting for phone calls that aren’t forthcoming. Life would certainly be easier if I got…
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Date 22 June 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Evaluating my life

I know that the realisation that I could have researched my birth notes many years ago, has left me with a lot of uncertainty, a…
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