Language, Truth, and the Writer's Responsibility

Date 4 August 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
The Ethical Cost of Misusing Language Socrates is often credited with saying, “The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.” He wasn't talking about bad grammar or awkward phrasing. He was referring ...
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Living Without Answers: Growing Up With Childhood Trauma

Date 31 July 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
Living Through Trauma Without a Name There are moments when I wonder if I will ever fully come to terms with the trauma that’s shaped my life. It’s a difficult truth to hold, because hardship has been my constant companion ...
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Resilience in the Face of Doubt: My Personal Growth Story

Date 23 July 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
Some days, it feels like the world only ever saw the version of me it wanted to see – small and quiet. Not the version I was looking at. Not the child that was desperate to be heard with anger issues and dreams of a ...
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Born in the Dark

Date 19 July 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
Growing Up Angry, Undiagnosed, and Unheard – A Story of Mental Health and Healing Born in the dark and lived in the dark, it's not surprising I was an angry child. That anger didn’t go away as I grew up – it followed me ...
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Not Invisible: Growing Up with an Unspoken Disability

Date 17 July 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
On Being Ignored: A Childhood Lived in Silence – The Silent Struggle Growing up with something I didn’t know I had was painful. I didn’t understand anything, or why I felt anxious, or why life felt harder. I just knew that things ...
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Living with Cerebral Palsy and a Lifetime of Silence

Date 15 July 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
Coming to Terms With a Lifetime of Not Knowing This is my journey, my story. I didn’t find out until I was in my forties that I had cerebral palsy, later finding out that I had been diagnosed at the age of 2. That’s a sentence I never ...
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How A Late Diagnosis Uncovered a Hidden Grief

Date 11 July 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
The CP Diary is mired in truth — not just my truth, not just my personal truth but a truth others can see themselves in. It invites anyone to own and accept their truths through the lens of my lived experiences. My writing is ...
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Writing from the Gut: How I Process Life through Emotion

Date 6 July 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
How I Process Life Through Emotion and Reflection Everything I write comes from my gut instinct. I don’t plan it. I don’t dress it up. I let the words, the thoughts, the emotions, the experiences rise – I listen carefully and quietly ...
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Living Without My Twin: Grief and the Loneliness That Lingers

Date 2 July 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
I'm writing this like it happened yesterday. Losing my twin is the hardest thing I've had to go through. I wasn't ready to lose her. If you're lucky enough to go through the ageing process, it's a difficult journey to fully ...
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Finding My Voice With Cerebral Palsy and Autism

Date 27 June 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
For decades, I didn’t have the words to describe the way I experienced the world. I just knew I was and felt different – I was tuned into a frequency other people didn't want to hear. I have carried far too much pain. Cerebral Palsy ...
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Why I Talk About Mental Health (Even When It's Uncomfortable)

Date 25 June 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
Talking about mental health still makes people uncomfortable. I’ve seen it – the sideways glances, the quiet pauses in conversations, followed by quick subject changes. And to be honest, sometimes it makes ...
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My Twin, My Other Half: A Journey Through Grief

Date 21 June 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
Realising the Weight of Life Without Her I was mentally stronger with my twin. Without her, I am beginning to realise just how difficult life after losing a twin is. I never thought I'd be without her, never imagined this stage ...
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