Covid-19 and Mental Health

Date 29 January 2021
Author Ilana Estelle
The UK Government's handling of Covid-19 is adding to mental health problems in young adults and children. Other groups are also struggling with mental health issues. Having a disability in Covid People with physical and mental ...
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My Challenging Life

Date 26 January 2021
Author Ilana Estelle
I didn’t have many wants as a child in the material sense, but I did want to know why I had a foot that looked different to my normal foot, why I had a leg with no muscle tone, a shortening in leg length and why I couldn’t walk heel…
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NO Rose Coloured Spectacles

Date 21 January 2021
Author Ilana Estelle
I have never looked on, or looked back on my childhood or disability with rose coloured spectacles. It wasn't that kind of childhood. Not knowing about my disability There were too many issues around a disability I didn’t ...
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Taking small steps

Date 14 January 2021
Author Ilana Estelle
Taking small steps is important if you are going to change the way you see life, if your lives are going to change. Growing up and not knowing about my disability, it would go on to take me 46 years to take that small step. I wanted to take that…
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Autism and Covid

Date 10 January 2021
Author Ilana Estelle
I go back to autism every time. I am tied to my autistic thoughts, which aren't normal around what is happening in the pandemic, Covid-19. A normal thought pattern A normal thought pattern would be living with the information ...
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The Bigger Plan

Date 7 January 2021
Author Ilana Estelle
If like me, you believe life is part of a bigger plan, then my family were chosen, and everything was pre-determined before I was born. It was a life I needed to question, there was every reason to question. Living with a disability ...
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Too many years have passed

Date 4 January 2021
Author Ilana Estelle
I may never get over that I grew up with a disability I never knew I had, with no mental or emotional support around a disability I didn't know I had. Now having used all of my experiences to work through ...
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A New Year, 2021

Date 2 January 2021
Author Ilana Estelle
There is no doubt that 2020 was a difficult year, because the world had the pandemic and the UK had Brexit. In 2021, we still have the pandemic to deal with and our thinking and reactions must change. The pandemic is what ...
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My Reflections on 2020

Date 31 December 2020
Author Ilana Estelle
It’s that time of year where I get to reflect on the year. The highlight to the year has been the publishing of my book Cerebral Palsy: 'A Story' Finding the Calm after the Storm. Second 'book edits' I have shied away from ...
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A Life Less Ordinary

Date 27 December 2020
Author Ilana Estelle
A life less ordinary because I deal with a disability and deal with every-day challenges, others take for granted. I am different, I have a different learning style and pace. I look back on my own childhood, and as I do, I see a ...
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Christmas Day Thoughts

Date 25 December 2020
Author Ilana Estelle
Dear Readers, It's been a tough year and it's not over. First the UK have inflicted Brexit on us and 9 months into Covid-19 since the pandemic was announced, we have that to work through, with many lives lost, both of which ...
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My Alexithymia Diagnosis

Date 23 December 2020
Author Ilana Estelle
Understanding Emotional Silence as a Neurological Consequence of Cerebral Palsy In 2009, at the age of 46, I discovered that I had cerebral palsy. I later learned through medical records that I had actually ...
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