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 16 October 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Writing is Hard

When I first started writing for The CP Diary 13 years ago, it was a completely different world. It was easier to write about my…
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Date 15 October 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Alan K Simpson

Something inspirational: “If you have integrity nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity nothing else matters.” ALAN K SIMPSON
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Date 14 October 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Mental Health: Breaking Down Barriers

An individual’s response to present events is based on their mental state. In the pandemic, individually we've all had a lot to cope with that…
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Date 13 October 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

My Spiritual Grounding

My spirituality, even as far back as a child has kept me grounded, humbled. Today it still does. I couldn’t write without it. It walks…
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Date 12 October 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

A Molly Friedenfeld quote

Something inspirational: “Focus on faith and grow your roots strong and deep so no one can make you believe in something that is not good…
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Date 11 October 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Your Soul's Journey

Have you ever questioned your next move, whether you should go down ‘path A’ or ‘path B.' Do you feel disconnected from yourself, or do…
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Date 10 October 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Brexit Rift

I still talk about Brexit on my blog because it's affecting me personally. Others on social media also care about its repercussions and the effects…
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Date 9 October 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Still feeling poorly

I hate where I am with my health since my twin passed away. Two months after my twin passed I was diagnosed with Eagle Syndrome…
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Date 8 October 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Touched by Suicide

There will be many people out there who know of someone who has taken their own life. Although disability fares better, talking about suicide is…
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Date 7 October 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

Seeing the World in Black, White and Grey

Something inspirational: “When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or white.…
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Date 6 October 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Idowu Koyenikan

Something inspirational: "Whenever I'm in a difficult situation and there seems to be no way out. I think of all the times I have been…
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Date 5 October 2023
Author Ilana Estelle

A Kushandwizdom quote

Something inspirational: “If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.”…
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