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 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Learning to Live With What Doesn't Leave

A Space for What’s Hard to Explain Three years after losing my twin, and I am still learning how to live with what doesn’t leave;…
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Date 20 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Where Understanding Grows

A Shared Space for Reflection Over time, The CP Diary has become more than a place for personal reflection. What began as a way for…
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Date 19 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

A Hannah Arendt quote

A moral warning about passivity: "When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men…
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Date 18 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Making Sense of What I Wasn't Told

Where This Leaves Me The CP Diary will be 16 years old in May and for the first time I feel almost healed. It's a…
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Date 17 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

The Quiet Edges

Noticing What Doesn't Quite Sit Right There’s a quiet comfort in the spaces we move through each day, the familiar rhythm of coming and going,…
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Date 16 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

When My Reaction Wasn't the Problem

What Wasn't Mine to Carry I grew up angry. Not understanding why – leaning in and learning how to adjust to everything around me. Conflict…
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Date 15 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Alice Walker

A gentle reminder for anyone who writes: "I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be…
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Date 14 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Living Inside A Story I Wasn't Part Of

How Unspoken Narratives Shape Identity and Understanding This piece sits within The CP Diary. It's part of a longer process of setting down what was…
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Date 13 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

The Quiet Cost of Eating Fish

When the “better choice” Becomes more Complicated than it First Appears Fish has long held a quiet moral advantage. It feels like the better choice…
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Date 12 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Shaped by Expectations That Were Never Mine

A Reflection on being Misunderstood and Learning What Was Mine to Keep We don’t just grow up with our own experiences – we grow up…
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Date 11 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

A Heraclitus quote

Sometimes progress doesn't feel like progress: "The way up and the way down are one and the same." HERACLITUS
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Date 10 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Cerebral Palsy, Anxiety, Depression, Autism and Rock Bottom

Growing up with Diagnoses, Misreading Difficulties as Failure, and Rebuilding Through Writing I hit rock bottom as a child, I just didn’t know I did.…
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