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Ilana Estelle

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Born

Sunderland , The United Kingdom

Website

https://www.thecpdiary.com

Twitter

TheCPDiary

Genre

Nonfiction, Self Help, Spirituality

Influences

Dalai Lama, Buddha, Eckhart Tolle, Thich Nhat Hanh, Sadhguru

Member Since

April 2019

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/ilanaestelle

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Ilana is an author and blogger whose work explores resilience, healing, and self-discovery through lived experience.

Struggling with reading and concentration from an early age, she found school challenging – without understanding why. It wasn’t until much later in life that the reasons became clear. At 46, Ilana discovered she had been diagnosed with cerebral palsy at the age of two. A decade later, further testing revealed she is also autistic – two life-changing realisations that allowed her to better understand herself and step into her full identity.

Ilana is 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. He ...more

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	Cerebral Palsy: A Story: Finding the Calm After the Storm 4.01 avg rating — 71 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spirituality, Healing and Me: How living a spiritual life offers hope and healing in the modern world by Ilana Estelle (Goodreads Author), Kay Reynolds (Foreword) 4.36 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Survival: The Covid Years 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Survival: The Covid Years: Time for Change 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Spirituality, Healing and Me How living a spiritual life offers hope and healing in the modern world by Ilana Estelle

Survival The Covid Years Time for Change by Ilana Estelle

A late diagnosis at 46 brings clarity, self-understanding, and a new perspective on the past

I stagnated for most of my early years. It wasn’t failure. It was awareness, understanding, observing, and waiting to be heard. It didn’t look like progress, and for a long time it was me standing still, but it served a purpose.

It protected my mental health, and in many ways, it protected me and Read more of this blog post »

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Ilana Estelle made a comment in the group Goodreads Authors/Readers — Introduce Yourself! topic " Hi, I'm Ilana. I'm the author of three published non-fiction books, with my fourth (not yet published) – focused on trauma that is now nearing complet ...more "
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Ilana Estelle made a comment on Maggie’s review of Cerebral Palsy 'A Story' Finding the Calm After the Storm " Thank you for sharing your thoughts on Cerebral Palsy: A Story. I understand that the writing style didn’t work for you. I chose to write the book in ...more "
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“The CP Diary – Every day I learn a little more about myself – not by what I overcome, but by who I become in the process. Cerebral Palsy is part of my story, but it is not my definition. I live, I grow, and I write – because my voice matters.”
― Ilana Estelle

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Ilana’s Quotes

“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon

tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, hope, inspirational, peace

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“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

tags: hope, human-nature

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“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

tags: hope, light

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“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire