The Grieving Process

Date 19 December 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Perhaps the grieving process shouldn’t just be about mourning the person we lose, but the same process should be applied to other areas of our life. The job we lost out on or go on to lose, or in my case, the diagnosis I didn’t get ...
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Passive & obedient

Date 13 December 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
I was a passive and obedient child. Looking back now of course I didn’t quite understand what they both meant, but that’s exactly what I was. I had very little choice in my life. I wasn’t taught how to respond to people and people in authority. One of the biggest…
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A more personal blog

Date 10 December 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
It’s been a long while since I’ve written a more personal blog. I’m beginning to struggle with my Cerebral Palsy symptoms, I’ve had better days. My left side is becoming weaker. I have noticed a decline in my strength in the last 6 months on my Cerebral Palsy side. I’m…
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Piecing my history together

Date 5 December 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Since I was never told that I had Cerebral Palsy it would always be up to me to try to put the pieces of the jigsaw together, through my experiences, consultations with one or two Neurologists and from obtaining copies of my childhood medical records. Yesterday I was re-looking over…
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My missing milestones

Date 2 December 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
There will always be things about Cerebral Palsy that I can never bring closure on, because I never knew I had Cerebral Palsy and although I relentlessly tried, I can never get those years back. Now it’s too late to ask questions because my parents are no longer around. As…
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My auditory perceptions

Date 24 November 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
I am learning a little more now about how my learning disabilities play out and why I struggle mentally with certain issues. Through my understanding of those issues and with reference to explanations throughout this new book, I will now hopefully have more clarity on what I deal with. I…
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Chicken or egg?

Date 19 November 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
I know that I sustained a bleed on the brain and that is why I have Cerebral Palsy, but I’m not sure what came first, the bleed or the difficult birth and then the bleed. What came first, the chicken or the egg? When my parents were here, I knew…
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Maintaining my health

Date 15 November 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Most of us will work on our health as a precautionary measure so that we don’t get ill.  It’s a constant battle but I have constantly work on my health so that I make sure I stay well. My health isn’t and has never been just a precautionary measure. I…
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Blame

Date 12 November 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
It’s a fact that our childhood will throw up many issues based around the environment we grow up in. Whatever we have had to contend with as a child, our experiences will always affect us and although it’s far from right, none of us can change those experiences. We also…
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Moving forward

Date 11 November 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
This has been a particularly hard blog for me to write. To realise our value as a person is to stop identifying ourselves as a victim. We stay a victim, because we fail to see our full worth and potential and instead allow others to take control. Although I personally…
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Making the right decisions

Date 3 November 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Unless we constantly work through the implications of some of our decisions, we will end up making the wrong ones. I spent a lot of my early years observing, so by the time I got to be the adult I had a clearer understanding of how to go about my…
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A clearer understanding

Date 2 November 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Having Cerebral Palsy and never being told that is what I had, would be like having to join up the dots and I’m now having to find ways and means of understanding what I’ve had to deal with. I have now found a book that is helping me verify and…
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