Helping change attitudes

Date 20 April 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
The CP Diary will be 7 on the 17th May 2017. I hope that in 7 years, my blogs and my experiences are helping to change attitudes, attitudes on how we choose to deal with ourselves, attitudes towards each other and attitudes towards our lives. I hope that my blog shows…
Read more

The fuller picture

Date 17 April 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
It is only when someone is no longer in our lives that we come to analyse and understand the relationship we had with that person. It is also only when that person is no longer in our lives that we can fully equate how our lives turned out. We know…
Read more

Asking questions

Date 11 April 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
Ever since I was a little girl, I have always asked questions. Had I not asked questions, I would never have found out what was wrong with me. It was being inquisitive that kept me focused and current. It was something I felt I could never give up on. As…
Read more

Never giving up

Date 7 April 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
For every year that I was left in the dark, the unanswered questions remained unanswered, but in all that time I wasn't prepared to give up. It was the not knowing, the trying to understand, trying to get to grips with my physical and emotional disabilities, to understand my anger.…
Read more

It's good to talk

Date 4 April 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
There used to be a British Telecom television advert in the UK advertising for us to talk through their communication network, with a slogan that said: ‘it’s good to talk,’ but I always took that as meaning, ‘it’s important to talk.’ Not talking about issues that matter could change the…
Read more

My site

Date 3 April 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
My site continues to prove, how we can daily change the way we view our issues and the world. My site continues to show me that whilst we can all change, we need to want to. My site also continues to show us ways in which we can change our…
Read more

A Good Deed Done

Date 30 March 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
Although having a disability has allowed me to see a different side to life, we don’t need to have a disability to understand a different side. We need to want to care. Life is too short to wish we’d done things differently, but we’re often too wrapped up in our…
Read more

Look for the understanding

Date 26 March 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
I wasn’t an easy child, suffice to say I was difficult, but those close to me needed to look at why I struggled. Babies aren’t born with difficult character traits. To be difficult for difficult sake isn’t great, but being difficult because you have no emotional support and you’re trying…
Read more

Holding on to things

Date 24 March 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
We hold on to the things we know we desperately want to happen, even though we know deep down those things will never happen. As a child, I used to do the same thing. An an adult in therapy, I would ask the same questions, but that was met with…
Read more

My late diagnosis

Date 23 March 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
Although I was late getting my cerebral palsy diagnosis, I have still had to work through all of my many neurological symptoms, what they mean and how they manifest themselves in me. Even if I had have had my diagnosis as a child, the specialists wouldn’t have understood the neurological…
Read more

Rationale, an understanding

Date 11 March 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
Given that everything was done for me when I was a child and I didn’t have to rationale anything, I couldn’t know that I struggled with not being able to rationale. In my childhood, I continually struggled with bad thoughts and had no idea why I could never let go…
Read more

A reflection on my blogs

Date 8 March 2017
Author Ilana Estelle
Looking through and going back to read some of my earlier blogs, I didn’t realise how damaged my emotions were at the time I set up and started writing blogs for The CP Diary. When I look back on those blogs, there seems to be a theme running through them.…
Read more
1 … 85 86 87 88 89 … 173

load_more

Subscribe to receive regular updates

Enter your details below to be the first to receive updates on new articles on my blog. 
© The CP Diary • In Dedication of Jesse Bauer | Privacy Policy
Website Design by Fallen Leaf