Depression is REAL

Date 6 September 2026
Author Ilana Estelle
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 ...
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The Life I Might Have Chosen

Date 31 August 2026
Author Ilana Estelle
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 ...
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The Knowledge That Was Always There

Date 28 August 2026
Author Ilana Estelle
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 ...
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Since When Was Doing the Right Thing the Wrong Thing?

Date 25 August 2026
Author Ilana Estelle
Have we become so focused on what works for us that we've forgotten what it means to work together? Someone said something to me recently that has stayed in my mind ever since: "Since when was doing the right thing ...
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We Don't Need More Mental Health Awareness

Date 23 August 2026
Author Ilana Estelle
We Need An Altogether Different Attitude For years, we have been told that we need more mental health awareness. I live with autism, and mental health is something I’ve had to navigate as a consequence. To some extent ...
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With Time

Date 20 August 2026
Author Ilana Estelle
Making peace with a life is not the same as understanding why it unfolded as it did. There comes a time when you realise you have spent years living a life that you can describe in detail, and yet you still can't fully ...
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An Ordinary Moment

Date 16 August 2026
Author Ilana Estelle
When Something Becomes an Achievement in Itself I particularly remember one of my father’s regular visits to my home after Mum died, when we got onto the subject of aspirations and I mentioned my writing and ...
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What I have Come to Know

Date 12 August 2026
Author Ilana Estelle
On Knowing Myself I've learned the hard way just how cruel life can be. When I look back on my life up to this point, I can see all the turns I've had to take just to survive. I didn't really understand the turns or what they meant because ...
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Wholeness Includes the Scars

Date 10 August 2026
Author Ilana Estelle
The Whole of a Life People sometimes ask if you’re okay after a loss, and for a long time I found myself saying, “I think I’m doing fine.” It was a strange answer then, and perhaps it still is. Because “fine” was never ...
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Creating Positive Change Through Writing

Date 8 August 2026
Author Ilana Estelle
Challenging assumptions and broadening perspectives Personal writing, which is how The CP Diary began, was one person's perspective, but it doesn't necessarily end there. When anyone writes about something personal ...
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Standing In My Own Shoes

Date 5 August 2026
Author Ilana Estelle
The journey from stagnation to self-understanding. People often say, "Walk a mile in my shoes," as a way of asking for understanding. But before anyone else can truly understand us, we must first learn to stand in our ...
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A Childhood Shaped by Silence

Date 3 August 2026
Author Ilana Estelle
Before I Had Answers I didn't know there were answers as a child. I lived with the unspoken. I spent time with my thoughts, quietly turning things over, trying to make sense of what I could physically see: little muscle ...
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