My blog continues to bring clarity and understanding of a lifetime lived with traumatic experiences. It continues to incorporate my thoughts and feelings on what I’ve had to deal with over the years, how I get to live my life now, how I see situations and circumstances.

My blog releases me from the guilt I carried. It doesn’t make me having to endure those experiences right, or take away others people's responsibility, but it does allow me to bring understanding to my experiences, knowing that the things I tried to change, could never be changed.

My blog also allows my readers to compare my experiences with their own, so they too can find a resolve on what they deal with.

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.

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4 comments on “Bringing clarity”

  1. I find comfort in this hiding place, where I feel refreshed with each blog you write. You're not the only one who benefits from this site, we all do.

    1. Thanks Tim. I love that you find comfort in this hiding place. It's my refuge too on difficult days. That pleases me.

  2. Your site is like a lighthouse sent to guide us through the stormy waters of life and to show us the way to a better understanding.

    1. Thank you. I'm probably biased because it is my site, but I believe it is too. I know how my words and blogs help me.

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