Energy & recovery

Date 21 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
It's a fact that someone with cerebral palsy uses 3 to 5 times more energy to do the same things as someone without cerebral palsy, so it stands to reason that because I have cerebral palsy, I will tire more quickly when I over exert myself. It also stands to…
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Measured decisions

Date 20 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Measured decisions usually come on the back of measured thoughts. A measured decision is a decision that’s made after considerable thought. Decisions that are measured, (weighing up the pros and cons) are the best way to make decisions. When we make quick decisions without thinking about things, we make hasty…
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Leaving a life behind

Date 18 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
When we’re brought up to live, and think a certain way, life isn’t easy. It’s a life with little emotion. With no freedom to make our own choices on life or through our experiences. There may also be times when we’re not sure how to get through, we just know…
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Connecting emotionally

Date 17 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Emotional connections are what bonds families, friends and couples. You don’t have to be part of a couple for an emotional connection to be formed, but without an emotional connection, there will be very little holding the relationship up. An emotional connection is a bond, it’s a link that ties…
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CP cannot be overcome

Date 15 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Cerebral Palsy is what I was born with and is what I deal with, but it frustrates me immensely when I read about people who have Cerebral Palsy and think it’s something they will overcome. It’s such false representation of what Cerebral Palsy is. Cerebral Palsy isn’t something you overcome.…
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Looking back at life

Date 12 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
It’s only when children become independent and begin to live their own lives that we as parents look back at our own life and either look back at those memories fondly, or come to realise how bad our life has really been. I have never chosen to live my life…
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Supporting ourselves

Date 11 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Unfortunately, the way we come to experience the world around us is as a reflection of the world within us. If our thoughts and energy don’t support our life, then our life will not be supported and must find a way to learn to do it for ourselves. I have…
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The CP Diary tool

Date 10 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
“Thank you for your insight thoughts & research in you blog posts. I find a majority of them dead on to an issue I’ve been thinking about. They have helped me get a different perspective or even the answer I’ve been looking for. I’m sure you are helping many of…
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Types of abuse

Date 8 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
It isn’t just years of inappropriate behaviour that equates to abuse. Being narrow-minded, controlling, one-sidedness, giving someone the silent treatment, expecting someone to mind read and intolerance are also forms of abuse. I’m not sure how many of us equate some of those forms of abuse above to being part…
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Ignoring constructive criticism

Date 7 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Why do we ignore or get cross when someone tries to say something constructive that may help us? If you’re the type of person that doesn’t take to criticism easily, whether it’s constructive or not, you’ll probably struggle with this. It stands to reason that we will learn more from…
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Families, stigma & disability

Date 6 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Unfortunately, there still seems to be a stigma behind disability, which means parents and family won’t always know how to behave or deal with their child or their sibling’s disability. I think another reason why families, don’t always know how to deal with a disability is because they’re simply not…
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Self-pity

Date 3 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Living with self-pity is like pressing the ‘self-destruct button’, because that’s exactly what we’re doing. When I look back I can resonate with feelings of self-pity given what I had to deal with, but I’m not sure I was ready to press the self-destruct button, but I can see how…
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