We choose not to listen

Date 2 February 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
We listen to what we want to hear. Most of us will open our ears to information that only concurs with our beliefs and will refute information we don’t agree with. Because of confirmation bias, people will listen to those people whose views they already know are similar to their…
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We're not responsible

Date 31 January 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
“I am not my brother’s keeper.” And whilst it's true we're responsible for ourselves, it's also true that we’re not responsible for what someone else does or says, and yet the baggage inflicted on us we carry as our own, as if we are responsible. If as a consequence we…
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Expectations and Milestones

Date 28 January 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
It’s when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.” – Mike Huckabee Milestones are those markers in the road telling us how far we’ve come and how much we’ve managed to achieve. Given my own physical, mental and emotional disabilities, I would…
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Demis Roussos

Date 27 January 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
I was saddened to hear of the passing of Demis Roussos yesterday. I would while away the hours listening to his music when I was a teenager. You made the world a better place with your music. RIP
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My struggles

Date 23 January 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
My sensory issues are beginning to interfere with my daily life. If I’d known what I had been dealing with for all of those years, I would have had a head start in finding a way to deal with these challenges now. Juggling my emotions around sensory issues, such as…
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Without reflection

Date 21 January 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Critical reflection involves a critique of the presuppositions on which our beliefs have been built. Reflection gives us a new perspective. Without it, we will lead blindly, we can fail to create anything useful and can create more issues we wouldn’t have had, had we used reflection as a tool.…
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Getting knocked back

Date 20 January 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
I stagnated for many years. Getting knocked back doesn’t have to be just done in the form of an interview. It can happen when someone close goes off at the deep end, pulls us down, shuts us off without communication and where our values begin to feel threatened. It’s not…
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My sensory problems

Date 18 January 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
The sensory system of a child who has suffered a brain injury at birth, is likely to continue to be at a more immature stage of development, compared to that of a child without an injured brain. Because I have cerebral palsy I deal with abnormal sensory perceptions, which means…
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My next blog

Date 17 January 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
This blog is to help me understand how others deal with me and my cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy continues to be incredibly difficult to deal with, not because I struggle, but because there is very little understanding from others on what I deal with. Although I am mentally immature and…
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I'm not exempt

Date 15 January 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Away from the Diary I have things that I deal with that are causing me stress. I find ways to deal with my stress, but my Diary doesn’t always exempt me from other people’s stress. It does however allow me to find coping mechanisms. Like everyone, I am not exempt.…
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Taking offence

Date 12 January 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
We live in a world where we’re right, we’re never wrong, we won’t back down and that’s how arguments start. We don’t like what someone says and we take it personally. It’s not that others will always set out to criticise. Nine times out of ten when someone says something,…
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Our need to prove

Date 9 January 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
We will spend a lifetime trying to prove to our parents that we’re worthy, a lifetime trying to live up to our parents’ expectations. We will spend a lifetime trying to show them we’re capable; that we’re responsible, that we can make something of ourselves; of our lives. Parents will…
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