Sensory Processing Disorder

Date 10 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
“A child with sensory issues has responses to experiences that are way out of proportion, consistently showing behaviors that can’t be dismissed.” I was intending to put a quote on the site today, but felt compelled to write about Sensory Processing Disorder. The above explanation of Sensory Processing Disorder, bests…
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Setting an example

Date 9 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Being no example is better than being a bad example. As a child, I didn’t think about good or bad examples, not consciously anyway, but as the adult, it’s clear that some of the examples being shown, weren’t positive examples I wanted to follow myself. If we're not following another…
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Standing by your morals

Date 6 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Defining, living with and communicating our core values will mean nothing, if those values don’t push us into living better lives. When I look back on my childhood, it wasn’t the things my mum said once that were of the most value, but the things she continually repeated. Morals must…
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How we really feel

Date 3 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
How we feel about ourselves is a mirror image of how we will feel about other people. We're conditioned from an early age to think and behave a certain way. We’re conditioned to feel a certain way and don’t stop to question our feelings. But we must look deep within…
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In a funk

Date 2 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Unfortunately, we don’t always journey through life without a care in the world. Things happen along the way that changes the status quo and changes us. I wish we could, but we’d all be different people then. In times of stress we may feel flat, disconnected. We may struggle to…
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Non-recognised milestones

Date 30 January 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
I realise that not only did I miss out on my milestones growing up, because my I struggled to learn, I also struggled to reach my milestones associated with adolescence, maturity and the emotions one associates with milestones. Also, the part of my brain that is damaged also controls the…
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Fix things

Date 24 January 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
I used to know someone who instead of trying to fix his problems, would constantly moan about them. Personally, I can’t see the attraction. If we were to spend less time moaning about our problems and more time on fixing our problems, we would have less stress to deal with.…
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Ignoring good advice

Date 22 January 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
As a child, I was always being told what to do. What I was given wasn’t as much a guide, as a demand. We may routinely sabotage ourselves by ignoring good advice when it’s given to us. According, to a study from Pennsylvania University, the things we think about just…
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Effects of my brain damage

Date 20 January 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
The CP Diary continues to give me a platform. It is right that I am able to understand my disability around my brain damage. I wasn’t aware my mental and emotional struggles had anything to do with a damaged brain or sensory ... I wasn’t aware my mental and emotional…
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An expression of gratitude

Date 18 January 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
As a child, I always felt lucky that I had a roof over my head, I was grateful. When I look back, with everything I had to deal with, the picture was far worse than I thought, but I still lived with gratitude. Those were never my conscious thoughts, but…
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Perfect children

Date 9 January 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
I remember a family growing up whose parents constantly put their son on a pedestal from the moment he was born. He couldn’t put a foot wrong. It’s not that he was perfect, but through their eyes, he was completely perfect. So why are children put on a pedestal? From…
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Are we ever good enough?

Date 8 January 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
We are what we’re told. Of course, if we hold on to those thoughts for long enough, we’ll eventually begin to believe we are all of what we’re told. And depending on our upbringing, we either come to believe we’re good enough, or we believe we’re not. When it came…
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