My despondent day

Date 24 January 2012
Author Ilana Estelle
I can’t be bothered to motivate myself today. I have a doom feeling come over me. The feeling that drains and zaps your energy for short periods, where things just feel blah. Does anyone else get that feeling? ...
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Dealing with critical people

Date 23 January 2012
Author Ilana Estelle
When someone is being overly critical, it is often because we don’t stop them and because they know they can get away with it. In those circumstances, we need to either understand the underlying message, ignore the message, or as a last resort, disengage. Critical people Critical people don’t think…
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Tomorrow is another day

Date 21 January 2012
Author Ilana Estelle
I’m letting off steam today and trying to work out how I feel. Some days I seem to struggle to make sense of where I am emotionally and when things feel heavy, I feel as though I am in denial. On my struggle days I try to reign myself in.…
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Understanding our perceptions

Date 20 January 2012
Author Ilana Estelle
When we come to understand our perceptions and how those work, we can change and our lives can change. Perceptions act as a filter based on our experiences and are then used to interpret our thoughts on what we see, hear and feel through our conscious thinking. Our perceptions may…
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Fruitless Exercises

Date 18 January 2012
Author Ilana Estelle
My thoughts today go back to my childhood this morning and the one thing that sticks out in my mind is my exercise routine and how fruitless they were. It wasn’t even the exercises I was mad at, or being singled out to do them. I was frustrated at the…
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More about Dyspraxia

Date 17 January 2012
Author Ilana Estelle
I believe having brain damage has contributed to my potential problems with Dyspraxia. Up until recently I have found out that certain members of my extended family have difficulties between left and right and other issues. Having something to draw on for now, gives me an understanding that I didn’t…
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CP and Dyspraxia?

Date 15 January 2012
Author Ilana Estelle
The CP Diary has been a good motivator for me. It has allowed me to understand and equate my experiences. This week I think I have now come face to face with another reality, for which my past struggles seem to fit. As a consequence of brain damage, there is…
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Time to grow

Date 12 January 2012
Author Ilana Estelle
Depending on our childhood, each of us as individuals will grow differently. As a child, I didn’t have a chance to emotionally grow because I was never encouraged to make decisions. Decisions were always being made for me. Being thrown in the deep end Although I was able to hold…
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Our Parents' Parenting

Date 10 January 2012
Author Ilana Estelle
As children, we have no idea about our parents’ roles, in any great detail. We may assume they look after and care for us, we may also assume they have our best interests at heart. As children, we may also sometimes be conditioned from an early age to accept the…
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Our belief system

Date 9 January 2012
Author Ilana Estelle
We all have a belief system that affects how we live day to day. Over time that belief system may begin to affect how we perceive and interpret what we see, feel and hear. Negative living means a negative belief system If we continually live with negativity, our belief system…
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My Mother's Legacy

Date 7 January 2012
Author Ilana Estelle
Looking back on my life, I see that my life was mapped out for me when I was born and there was nothing I could do to change it. It’s been difficult. Growing up, I was never going to know I had cerebral palsy, but I do remember her saying…
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Coping with my depression

Date 6 January 2012
Author Ilana Estelle
I wanted to write about depression from a personal perspective, because I believe I was struggling with it as a child. Seeing anyone deal with depression takes me back to my own childhood. I wasn’t motivated, or interested in anyone or anything, and became withdrawn very early on. I don’t…
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