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.
Healing, understanding and why empathy matters Dealing with depression is REAL. There isn't a lot of support out there and I don't think people always understand how much empathy someone needs when they ...
Mourning the choices I never had Standing back from my life and trying to understand it now doesn't mean I no longer have feelings about what happened. I do. My life was shaped for me long before I had the chance ...
The past cannot change, but the understanding can Knowledge can arrive at the wrong time because the people you needed to hear it from are no longer there. And there is nowhere to take that knowledge. Not knowing ...
Ilana, I hope you feel better soon. Thinking about you.
Thanks Lisa.