My vulnerable side

Date 15 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
It’s easy for me to talk about what I deal with and what I feel. As long as I can remember I’ve always been like this. The hard part about anyone writing about experiences in this way means we will become more vulnerable. I have more confidence now than I…
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A low day

Date 12 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
It’s that time of year again and I’m struggling to find shoes to fit that aren’t boots. I’m not sure whether I am resigned to the fact that I have Cerebral Palsy, but it’s probably got something to do with this time of year again. I begin to struggle with…
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Our ability to cope

Date 9 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
As adults, we’re expected to fit into an adult world, adapt into our circumstances and adapt into our lives, but all that starts in childhood. With the right guidance, there will always be scope for us to adapt into that world, but just because we're adults doesn’t always mean we’ll…
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Different but the same

Date 8 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
Perhaps it is a cultural thing, a feature of the behaviour of a certain generation, but there are parents who tend not to treat their children as individuals. They see what they want to see and will judge their children together. They may even go on to judge their children…
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The good in bad

Date 6 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
How great it would be to grow up around people who choose to support and encourage instead of people who interfere, criticise and only think about themselves. How different our lives would be, growing up with only these people in our lives for company. I believe we must use our…
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Apportioning blame

Date 5 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
It’s not unusual for parents to be blamed by their children for how their lives turn out. It’s also not uncommon for children to have strong influences in their lives whose influences have a greater bearing than their parents. Consequently, this may play out on an unconscious level in the…
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Risk taking

Date 3 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
During our lifetime, some of us will spend a lot of time weighing up the pros and cons and that's right. I tend to assess my options first. That way I make less mistakes and weigh up any risk factors. Unfortunately, as is the case, some of the things we…
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Working on my week

Date 2 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
This weekend hasn’t been the best of weekends, but come to think of it neither has the last week before that, so it’s really not surprising that today my mind is totally blank. I need to regroup my thoughts. Today I’m working on getting myself back on to a more…
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A closed mind

Date 1 June 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
We close our minds. We close our minds to the possibilities that we may have done okay, but instead convince ourselves we’ve failed. We then continue to convince ourselves that we've failed, instead of waiting to see what the results are with an open mind. Then not only have we…
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A little girl's dream

Date 30 May 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
When I was a little girl, I used to imagine happily ever after scenarios, but as I began to grow up, I slowly came to realise that’s not how life really is, well not my life anyway. That we constantly have to work at things, sort issues out and even…
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The facts about CP

Date 28 May 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
Because of a lack of research pertaining to my cerebral palsy and being premature, I am still left with uncertainty as I age. When I was a little girl, even with my physical problems; I still assumed I would age in the same way as everyone else, but now I…
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How The CP Diary works

Date 26 May 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
For anyone who is interested to know how The CP Diary works. The CP Diary isn’t based on how I see the world, but how I get the best out of my life, through my experiences. My blogs are based on my thoughts and feelings of what I have had…
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