In Survival: ‘The Covid Years, I not only shed light on my own personal challenges through the pandemic, but through my words, I bring explanations to my experiences, helping you the reader to also unlock your own thoughts and feelings on your pandemic journey. By bringing an understanding, I also unlock future potential for others, enabling them to move on from an enormously difficult time for everyone.  

It’s a must-read for anyone wanting to shed light on their own personal journey through the Covid-19 pandemic.

Survival: The Covid Years is on tour currently. Below are a couple of reviews:   

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"Ilana Estelle was forty-six when she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and then ten years later, she was diagnosed with autism. The journey, from angry, confused child to the ‘real’ her took enormous inner strength and courage. Then the global pandemic struck.

In Survival: The Covid Years, Ilana shares her overwhelming physical and mental struggles within the chaos of the pandemic. She explains how navigating the daily turbulence and ever-changing rules and restrictions impacted her physical, mental, and emotional needs, leaving her feeling out of control and panicked.

As someone who was classed as a key worker and worked on the Covid wards throughout the whole pandemic, I found this an open and honest book regarding the struggles and effects the pandemic had on Ilana and how she got herself through the shielding, isolating and lockdowns.

Thank you so much to the author - @ilanaestelle_author, and @literallypr for allowing me to be a part of this book tour."

Daiseralla

"The pandemic may be considered over, but it is something we all lived through. Some of us became fitness freaks, some of us were not working, but others of us were breaking our backs and working harder than ever before. So, this personal insight from Ilana allows us/the reader to explore our own personal thoughts and feelings that may have arose following the trauma of the pandemic.

Many of us are still struggling from the pandemic, and this book enables you, different methods to help you move on from this difficult period. I’ll be honest, the pandemic was an extremely different experience for me – it completely made my career and I was the busiest I have ever been, so in that aspect – a lot of good came from it for me personally. However, this book resonates more with my husband who switched roles with me and became the ‘stay at home parent’ whose sole responsibility was to look after our daughter whilst I worked in my office upstairs.

The book is extremely insightful as it does open your eyes up to how Ilana dealt with the pandemic with a disability, and also how it affected each of us mentally in very different ways. As I mentioned, my husband struggled quite a lot with the role reversals and not going out to work every single day, whereas I was busy working harder than ever and I didn’t face a huge negative impact.

The book made me evaluate my feelings and my husbands, and realise that none of us will ever be the same again following the pandemic, but that doesn’t necessarily mean in a negative way. I think we all have to come away from it with something positive, or a lesson learnt."

As an independent author I rely on goodwill and people kindly spreading the word. Please help support. If you fancy grabbing copies of my books, they are available to purchase on my website https://www.thecpdiary.com/my-books/