My Anxiety Challenges

Date 19 December 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
When I look back at my anxiety struggles and challenges, not knowing about my physical, mental, or emotional disability, didn’t do me any favours. If anything, it allowed society to judge and form opinions about me and my ...
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A change of blogs...

Date 18 December 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
I’m not sure what exactly I will be putting out over the next few days, to the lead up to my twin’s funeral on Wednesday. All I know is that I don't have time to write my monthly 'Diet and Nutrition' and Exercise blogs, so I am intending ...
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Writing for Mental Health

Date 15 December 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
Since the passing of my twin a few days ago, I shall be putting out blogs that support my mental health needs. There may be a few changes to my monthly blogs again, if I struggle to get those out. Or I may jump on to a feature ...
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At a loss

Date 13 December 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
My twin passed away on Saturday 10th December 2022. It will be a day etched in all our memories, but for me as her surviving twin, it’s a date that will be etched for other reasons also. It was the day, I was forced to start living ...
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Covid finally caught up with me

Date 12 December 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
After 3 years of taking the necessary precautionary measures I didn’t go out to look for Covid, and it caught up with me. With two people in my household affected, and the other person affected worse off, the virus got ...
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Self-Gratification and Dis-ease

Date 9 December 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
The world is changed and so are we. With self-gratification we have everything we want at the drop of a hat. Generally, we're notching up 'things' instead of extending ourselves to help others. Self-Gratification and Brexit ...
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Terminal Illness

Date 7 December 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
Dealing with a loved one with a terminal illness means you're left with a lot of feelings around end of life. Knowing it is an end of stage disease that is not curable, is for many, a hard pill to swallow. Dealing with a loved one's terminal ...
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Failing to understand and to see life

Date 3 December 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
As a small child, I didn’t get the bigger picture of what was my life. I was lost in my thoughts, but I did come to understand my journey later, well into my thirties. Spectrum of 'life' When things happen, we may forget to think or ignore where ...
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A Slight Change Of Plans

Date 28 November 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
You may have read on my blog about my personal circumstances around my twin who is terminally ill. I am still trying to work on writing and getting blogs out there and shall continue, but my head's not quite in the zone ...
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Mental Health and Wellbeing

Date 26 November 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
Over the years, I have seen first-hand what happens when you fail to see or act on your mental health. Ignore your mental health and be prepared to deal with illness, and it may not just be a cough or a cold. Mental Health ...
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The Importance of Changing Perspective

Date 25 November 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
I changed my own perspective in my twenties when I realised the life I was emotionally living wasn't the life I wanted to live. It changed for good in my forties, when and for the first time I came away with a diagnosis of a disability ...
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Take Action for 'Mental Health'

Date 21 November 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
Watching anyone fight a terminal illness is difficult, even more so when it’s your twin. Mental health comes in many guises and is something we should all be working on to better our mental health. I deal with mental health ...
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