Disability & being exposed

Date 19 August 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
My mind doesn’t seem to be far away from my disability. Sadly, anyone who deals with a disability may always be exposed, until disability becomes an accepted part of society, but it is getting better. When anyone with a disability is cared for, the stress and responsibility is usually taken…
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A different understanding

Date 13 August 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
Although I didn’t initially know I was going to have a platform to write about my symptoms and experiences, I never gave up hope on a diagnosis or understanding my symptoms and because karma would eventually want to correct that wrong. Now 8 years into a diagnosis and I am…
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Not mine to own

Date 11 August 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
This is the hardest blog I’ve had to write, because it brings understanding and finality on something I’ve had to work on and find out for myself for as long as I have been and that’s never easy. And where our memories act as a reminder, sometimes those memories aren’t…
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Bringing clarity

Date 7 August 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
My blog continues to bring clarity and understanding of a lifetime lived with traumatic experiences. It continues to incorporate my thoughts and feelings on what I’ve had to deal with over the years, how I get to live my life now, how I see situations and circumstances. My blog releases…
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Issues and Sensory Processing Disorder

Date 5 August 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
My disability isn’t straightforward. Any issue I don’t have a resolve on, turns into a Sensory Processing Disorder scenario. The little every day things, I'm okay with. I can’t switch issues off if there is no end on the issues ...
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A measure of trust

Date 3 August 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
I go back to ‘trust’ because as children we put our trust in the people we share our lives with, particularly our parents. We trust others will do right by us, that they will care for us, that the decisions they make for us are the decisions they make because…
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My unspoken disability

Date 30 July 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
Growing up, my physical issues and emotional issues were never recognised or discussed. It wasn’t so much that I was silenced, I knew not to talk about it. After my hospital and physiotherapy appointments nothing was ever discussed either. It was assumed I would go and that was it. It…
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Drowning under my senses

Date 27 July 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
Having heard about Paddy McGuiness and his wife Christine’s heartbreak, over their four-year-old twins’ Autism diagnosis recently, I wanted to write about it because I not only feel sad, but I can also resonate. I can draw parallels with them through my Sensory Processing Disorder (“SPD”). I understand why each…
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Coming through abuse

Date 24 July 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
I can’t believe that I’ve had to deal with neglect and trauma. I also didn’t know that growing up with no emotional support, not knowing about my disability, not being able to talk about my feelings around a disability I didn’t know I had, and having to pull myself through…
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A measure of success

Date 21 July 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
When we can’t see, or equate how we feel with how others have made us feel, then we know we’re emotionally damaged. It would go on to take me many years to see or understand that I was. It took countless guilt trips, until one day the penny dropped that…
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Relationships & Disability

Date 20 July 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
There is always something to write about around relationships and disability. Anyone with a brain impairment means they are disabled, however small. It stands to reason therefore, that my life would turn out differently, when I eventually found out. I am tied to a brain injury that has ...
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Teething problems

Date 13 July 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
I have noticed a few small technical problems with the new site, so please bear with me. These things happen of course. We are on the case. It's going to take a few days.
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