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.
Depression Beyond Low Mood: Understanding Its Lasting Impact
Recognising, Managing, and Living with Persistent Depression I live with depression. I later learned other family members had it too – a mental health condition…
Eat to Age Better: Simple Nutrition Shifts for Longevity
Simple Nutrition Habits that may Support Longevity, Immunity, and Better Long-term Health Modern eating habits often work against healthy ageing. Constant snacking, excessive refined carbs,…
Discomfort, Honesty, and Social Fragility It often feels as though speaking honestly has become more difficult than ever. In many conversations, discomfort is mistaken for…
Healing Across Spirit, Loss, and Generations My healing feels deeply connected to something greater than myself. As I work through trauma, understanding, and growth, this…
Tinnitus and Anxiety: How Stress Can Make Symptoms Worse
Supporting Mental and Emotional Health with Tinnitus Living with tinnitus can affect far more than hearing alone. For many of us, tinnitus can influence emotional…
You learn the past shapes you most when it goes unexamined The past doesn’t disappear just because time moves forward. If it stays unexamined, unresolved,…
Something inspirational: “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.” LILLIAN HELMAN In a world that constantly shifts with opinions,…
