My Universal Book

Date 19 April 2021
Author Ilana Estelle
As a child, I innately knew there was something that connected us to the universe, but it was in my early twenties that I began to grasp the universal understanding of how we are all connected to everything in the universe, and to each ...
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An Inspiring Read

Date 7 April 2021
Author Ilana Estelle
Learning that I had a disability at the age of 46, but not knowing what my disability was, I was given no choice but to find out. You can't live a life with something and not know what it is. I write about my experiences on my blog ...
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My Book Writing

Date 20 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle
“Writing is a way to engage with the world on your own terms and to escape, however temporarily, the world’s noise. Article continues after advertisement. The imagination remains a private place where you can make ...
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How my Cerebral Palsy Journey Began

Date 8 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle
In October 2006, I didn’t know it was to be my family’s first and last holiday abroad. We were in St Paul de Vence, in the South of France, it was also the very start of my cerebral palsy journey, although I could never have known ...
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A Book For You

Date 4 March 2021
Author Ilana Estelle
My website, The CP Diary will be 11 years old, and into my 12th year of writing on the 17th May 2021. My biggest achievement is writing my book Cerebral Palsy: 'A Story' one which I never thought I would manage in my life ...
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Continuing my Book Journey

Date 22 February 2021
Author Ilana Estelle
My follow-on book, ‘Spirituality, Healing and Me’ charts my spiritual and healing journey, coming through a disability I didn’t know I had as I take the reader through their own journey. My new book is based on spirituality and healing ...
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Why I Wrote My Book

Date 18 February 2021
Author Ilana Estelle
An author might tell you that writing a personal book isn’t easy. It’s not easy to describe how you feel and you’re never sure how what you write will be received. Putting a name to a disability As a small child, it was never intended for ...
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Mum Paves The Way

Date 12 February 2021
Author Ilana Estelle
When mum was terminally she was aware she wasn’t going to live and wanted to tell me about my disability before it was too late for me to know. Although it was difficult to hear her words, ‘it was a difficult birth’ I didn’t equate ... When mum was terminally…
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Covid-19, My Difficult Book Year

Date 2 February 2021
Author Ilana Estelle
It has been a difficult book year due to Covid-19. I know how I have been affected mentally through autism and it has taken me months to bounce back, to see positivity and to write in a calm, quiet and peaceful space, without dealing ...
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My Book is a Lifeline in Covid Times

Date 23 January 2021
Author Ilana Estelle
“This book tells us that we are not victims of circumstances, but we have a choice on how we live.” – Mai Cadiz Cerebral Palsy: A Story ‘Finding the Calm After the Storm’ is the first step to healing. In Covid-19 times when it is easy to look inwards, my…
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My Spirituality and Healing Guide

Date 17 January 2021
Author Ilana Estelle
My Book, Cerebral Palsy ‘A Story’ charts my journey living with a disability I didn’t know I had. It is intuitive, insightful and universal. My follow on book is due out in September 2021. It is a spiritual and healing book. No one has the perfect childhood, we all carry…
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Supporting my Book in the Pandemic

Date 30 December 2020
Author Ilana Estelle
It is because the UK agreed to leave the EU in 2016 that I was already looking at and dealing with a different set of circumstances around my book publishing in January 2020. Book Blurb Cerebral Palsy: A Story 'Finding ..
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