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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A journey

Date 5 January 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
I have always been a highly moral person, but since I started The CP Diary, it has become my moral compass, a ticket to better health, a better path, a journey that allows for a bigger picture of how we can live a life in a more peaceful existence. The…
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My emotional struggle

Date 3 January 2016
Author Ilana Estelle
My emotional struggle is that I have a downer on myself, when I’m having a bad day. As a child, I was angry growing up, desperate to know what was wrong with me. It was clear to me anyway that I was not coping with my mental, emotional and physical…
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As New Year approaches

Date 31 December 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
As 2015 draws to a close, I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for the support I’ve received this year with The Diary and to wish everyone a peaceful and happy New Year ...
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Reflecting on the last year

Date 29 December 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Reaching the end of 2015, I cannot believe yet another year has passed so quickly. Apart from the continuation of The CP Diary, which I feel has been enormously successful, my other achievement is my coming to understand part of my Cerebral Palsy symptoms after all these years. It’s been…
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Understanding what's right

Date 26 December 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
As a child, it was always important to me that I did the right thing. It didn’t really matter what the right thing was, it felt wrong doing the wrong thing. What you think is right isn’t the same as inwardly knowing what’s right, but it helps to do what…
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My Cerebral Palsy journey

Date 22 December 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Having looked through my medical history again, I now have a fuller picture of my cerebral palsy. My neurological consultant confirms that my MRI scan shows: ‘An old stroke in the distribution of the right anterior cerebral artery and there is extensive damage to the right frontal lobe and a part…
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A different thought process

Date 20 December 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Understanding and having my Cerebral Palsy symptoms confirmed has now brought me to a different emotional place. In a way, I’m more at peace because trying to work out what was wrong with me was always my biggest challenge; now everything feels less of a challenge. Although I always knew…
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