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 21 June 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Opinions, but the wrong ones

As a child, because I was never taught to have an opinion, I never expressed one. I sometimes wonder why people have opinions about everyone…
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Date 20 June 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Why do we have to please others?

I wonder how many of us have spent our entire lives pleasing family just so that we fit in, just so we’re accepted, nurtured, understood…
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Date 19 June 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Count every small luxury

Something inspirational: The next time you take a bath, enjoy the water, notice the lovely colours of the bubble bath, savour the peace and tranquility…
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Date 18 June 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

I'll be back tomorrow

I will be back on the site tomorrow... please feel free to respond on my blogs. I'm struggling mentally today.
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Date 17 June 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Lessening the impact

For children growing up in the 1960's, there was a stigma behind disability and rather than embrace disability, children were considered outcasts. Parents were embarrassed…
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Date 16 June 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Cerebral Palsy Stretches

The stretches and exercise a physical therapist recommends will depend on how bad your Cerebral Palsy is. No two people with Cerebral Palsy are alike…
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Date 15 June 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Picricum Acidum 30c

Part of the problem I have living with Cerebral Palsy is that I deal with Brain fatigue. The Homeopathic remedy “Picricum Acidum” 30c is helping,…
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Date 14 June 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Emptiness

I am writing this blog because it will not only help me, but hopefully will help others with what they have to deal with, when…
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Date 13 June 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Multi-vitamins & Minerals

My last journal was about antioxidant foods and problems with food. If you are having problems, it’s feasible that you may need to supplement the…
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Date 12 June 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Energy

Something inspirational: Do you struggle with energy? After continuing to work without a break, do you get to the stage where you feel you need…
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Date 11 June 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

Information that supports

There are so many of us with different forms of Cerebral Palsy whose symptoms will vary accordingly. Unfortunately, no two cases are the same. How…
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Date 10 June 2010
Author Ilana Estelle

A Shared Story

I will be continuing my research for alternative therapies, but felt I needed to write this blog today. Having spoken to a friend yesterday about…
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