Enormously proud

Date 3 March 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
It would go on to take many years for my father to say he was enormously proud of me, but when he did, it eventually came in the form of The CP Diary. Although we had talked about the Diary, my writing and my college diplomas, I’m not sure whether…
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Humility & inclusion

Date 28 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
“I think we can’t go round measuring our goodness by what we don’t do… by what we deny ourselves … what we resist and who we exclude. I think we have to measure goodness by what we embrace … what we create and who we include.” - Chocolat ...
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Criticisms

Date 25 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Being self-critical stems from our core beliefs which, unless corrected, will continue. But how many of us are aware that each time we say something we’re being critical, or even self-critical?  Therefore, we shouldn’t take offence if someone points out that is what we’re doing. In the early days negativity…
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Stress & negativity

Date 16 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
It’s been quite a while since I wrote a more personal blog. It’s no secret that I have always struggled with negativity, couple that with sensory processing issues and it’s an even bigger nightmare. It helps when I can get my thoughts out because then in my mind, I know…
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When schools get it wrong

Date 12 February 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
Congratulations to Kate Winslet on her BAFTA Win 2016. In her post BAFTA Speech to the press, Kate revealed that at the age of 14 she was told by a Drama Teacher “I might do okay if I was happy to settle for the fat girl parts.” And I thought…
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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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