Changes along the way

Date 13 March 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
Nothing in my life was ever going to change unless I changed and that’s pretty much how things worked out. Where there are problems with parents, it is inevitable the children will struggle. We will always live the life we live unless we work to change our lives. I could…
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My greatest success

Date 12 March 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
Finding out about what I was dealing with, that I never imagined I would know this side of life, and starting The CP Diary are part of my personal success. I set up my own secretarial business putting my office and admin skills to good use. I did that for…
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Redressing the balance

Date 8 March 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
I have never got over my education. Emotionally I was struggling with the fact that I felt I had failed in school. I couldn’t emotionally move on because no one else was taking responsibility, so I carried the guilt. My school reports I had already thrown my school reports away…
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College and Early Work Years

Date 6 March 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
Having struggled through school and feeling I’d failed, I went to college and continued to fail. College was a continuation of my school years. An education fail My parents keeping my diagnosis and symptoms from the very institution that could have helped me, my education was always ...
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My early life

Date 5 March 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
In some of my Cerebral Palsy blogs, I have touched on various issues around the condition itself, but I haven’t talked about how visible it was when I was a child, or how my disability was ignored. My anger issues It would go on to take me 48 years to…
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Our Entrance and Exit

Date 2 March 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
Some of us will be affected by our early years more than others. Through our background, environment and experiences, we may emotionally struggle. Our earlier experiences shape how we will go on to behave. That can be no excuse for bad behaviour. It’s a parent’s duty to show children moral…
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Anxiety

Date 26 February 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
Because I deal with Sensory Processing, I am already prone to anxiety, overthinking and negative repetitive thoughts. Those continue to be my biggest challenges. When things feel uncomfortable Talking about issues, help me get my thoughts out into the open and that helps me feel better. Anxiety isn’t something we…
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Being helpful

Date 22 February 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
When I was growing up it didn’t matter what dispute we had, whether the dispute was with a shop or a business, people were just willing to put things right and that spilled over into our personal lives. The customer is always right phrase Attitudes were different back then. The…
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My handwriting issues

Date 21 February 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
Out of everything I’ve had to deal with since I started my journey nearly eight years ago, my handwriting is the one thing I haven’t yet tackled. I haven’t talked about my handwriting struggles in any great detail, primarily because I’m too embarrassed. My handwriting issues Handwriting is one of…
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My impacted emotions

Date 16 February 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
Being born with a disability and being kept in the dark about it for 46 years, meant there would be no getting away from my emotions being impacted. Every struggle, every fear, all the anxiety and stress brought about through my neurological impairments, could have been limited with help and…
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Attitudes and Disability

Date 14 February 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
Although I was never considered a child with special needs, I was a special needs child. It was obvious to me, I had mental and emotional struggles. I was my own ’emotional support’ The reality for some of us, is that where others should be emotionally supporting us, we often…
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Families together

Date 9 February 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
For those living with a disability, knowing about a diagnosis will foster more understanding of our situation from others, which will result in easier, more loving and symbiotic relationships. I hated the labels and without understanding what was different about me, I hated being labelled even more. Those were incredibly…
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