Withdrawing from life

Date 2 May 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
I don’t look for comparisons in other people, I tend to concentrate on my own life, but every now and again I will see a documentary where something resonates with me. Last week I was watching the road trip documentary with James Corden and Gary Barlow from 'Take That'. When…
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Facing life's challenges

Date 1 May 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve had to work around a different perspective, a perspective that would give me an understanding of what I was dealing with, around a disability I didn’t know I had. When it comes to a life-changing scenario, any physical and mental challenge can…
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A new thought pattern

Date 28 April 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
I’m pleased I’m not seeing my children moving away from home as being a problem. I love the fact that they’re independent and mature enough to want to live independent lives. Given my own upbringing, this is a new and normal thought pattern for me and I’m happy to run…
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Making allowances

Date 26 April 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
We spend our lives making allowances for people. As parents, we make allowances. We compensate or allow for things depending on what our children have to deal with. As a child growing up with difficulties, an allowance was made on my day out to the hospital each year. A problem…
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Don't dwell

Date 25 April 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
If you’ve never had something but wish you did, continuing to wish for it won’t help. If you know you can’t change something, accept that you can’t, you’ll have more peace that way. If you have something, accept it for what it is and be happy with it. Don’t dwell…
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A lifetime of regrets

Date 22 April 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
Sometimes we do things in our life that we later go on to regret, or something we didn't do that perhaps we should have done. Over the years, there we’re lots of things I tried to change and address, but none of what I tried to change had any impact…
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Jealousy

Date 21 April 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
As a child growing up with a disability that I didn’t know I had, I was happy to me. There were things I wanted to change, such as understanding what exactly what was wrong and what my symptoms were. I didn’t like the fact that I had no working muscle…
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Change of plan

Date 19 April 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
The bad news is that I had planned to put a recipe on the site today but that will have to be published after Easter due to various technical gremlins that I need help on, but the good news is that ...
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The universe and its Laws

Date 18 April 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
I wanted to elaborate further on the universal laws. When we do something that innately goes against what the universe expects from us, what we’re doing will never work for us, but when we apply the universal laws, we will bring good intentions and things into our lives. The universe…
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Two ways of living

Date 16 April 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
As children we look for acceptance. As we begin to build on our relationships, we spend our lives trying to convince those people we’re worthy contenders, instead of us learning to be who we are. Consequently, we may never know who we are. We spend our lives worrying that if…
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A difficult day

Date 14 April 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
It wasn't the best of days yesterday, as I'd been dealing with IBS for most of the day, brought about by stress the day before. I think I'll rewind back to the previous day when I was feeling well ...
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Disability & families

Date 11 April 2014
Author Ilana Estelle
As a child growing up with something, later finding out it was cerebral palsy, meant my disability would become part of my family’s life too. Trying to manage any disability around family is difficult. I didn’t know what was wrong with me, let alone how what was wrong with me…
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