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Date 17 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

The Quiet Edges

Noticing What Doesn't Quite Sit Right There’s a quiet comfort in the spaces we move through each day, the familiar rhythm of coming and going,…
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Date 16 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

When My Reaction Wasn't the Problem

What Wasn't Mine to Carry I grew up angry. Not understanding why – leaning in and learning how to adjust to everything around me. Conflict…
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Date 15 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Alice Walker

A gentle reminder for anyone who writes: "I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be…
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Date 14 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Living Inside A Story I Wasn't Part Of

How Unspoken Narratives Shape Identity and Understanding This piece sits within The CP Diary. It's part of a longer process of setting down what was…
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Date 13 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

The Quiet Cost of Eating Fish

When the “better choice” Becomes more Complicated than it First Appears Fish has long held a quiet moral advantage. It feels like the better choice…
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Date 12 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Shaped by Expectations That Were Never Mine

A Reflection on being Misunderstood and Learning What Was Mine to Keep We don’t just grow up with our own experiences – we grow up…
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Date 11 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

A Heraclitus quote

Sometimes progress doesn't feel like progress: "The way up and the way down are one and the same." HERACLITUS
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Date 10 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Cerebral Palsy, Anxiety, Depression, Autism and Rock Bottom

Growing up with Diagnoses, Misreading Difficulties as Failure, and Rebuilding Through Writing I hit rock bottom as a child, I just didn’t know I did.…
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Date 9 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

The CP Diary: Understanding Lived Experience

A Space for Reflection, Accountability and Shared Awareness The CP Diary exists to take responsibility, state facts, and seek understanding through lived experience – offering…
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Date 8 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

What Was Never Ours to Hold

On Growing Up Within Stories That Were Never Fully Mine We don’t just grow up with our own experiences – we grow up inside the…
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Date 7 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

A quote by Omar Delawar

Something inspirational: “We come into this world with nothing and leave this world with nothing. Everything that happens between life and death becomes experience for…
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Date 6 April 2026
Author Ilana Estelle

Cerebral Palsy and Undiagnosed Autism

Living Without Understanding I grew up with cerebral palsy. That was known. What wasn’t known was autism. I lived with both, but only one had…
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