Mental Health and Life Struggles Shape Growth

Date 29 July 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
Shaped by Circumstance: Not Everyone is Supported and Nurtured The environment we grow up is responsible for mental health. Mental health can either support us in creating positive change or it can leave us ...
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Healing After Judgment: Reclaim Your Self-Worth

Date 26 July 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
Break free from false labels, and rediscover who you are Being judged particularly when that judgment is rooted in unfairness – is one of the most isolating and painful experiences a person can endure. When you're tarred ...
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The Case for Urgent Climate and Social Action

Date 22 July 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
We Need to Act Across the world, there’s a rising sense of unease – and for good reason. The impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss, and widening inequality are no longer projections. They’re here. Heatwaves ...
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A Poem by Mary Oliver

Date 20 July 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
"The Journey" – by Mary Oliver An Inspirational Poem About Self-Discovery and Courage One day you finally knewwhat you had to do, and began,though the voices around youkept shoutingtheir bad advice ...
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Clarkson’s Farm Highlights Farmer Mental Health

Date 16 July 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
A shared reflection on why mental health needs more than one voice As someone who writes from lived experience, I often find that the most powerful conversations on mental health don’t make headlines, they begin ...
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Mental Health is Not Optional: A Wake-up Call We All Need

Date 13 July 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
I Get It – Mental health isn't popular It's an inconvenience.It's time-consuming, and difficult. It’s also not always understood. But mental health is necessary It's something we may bury, suppress, and ignore. If ...
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The UK Mental Health Crisis: Why Healing Begins With You

Date 4 July 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
Restarting Mental Health Begins With You Since 2010, through The CP Diary, I have and continue to explore mental health, emotional resilience, social and political change and its effects on our wellbeing. Today, as we ...
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Brexit and Covid-19 Changed the UK’s Mental Health Landscape

Date 3 July 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
Exploring the emotional toll of political and public health crises, and why mental health must be a national and personal priority moving forward. Since 2010, I’ve used The CP Diary to look at my own physical and emotional ...
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I Felt An Angel – A Poem of Comfort, Healing, and Hope

Date 30 June 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
I Felt An Angel is a beautiful and soothing poem that captures the invisible yet powerful presence of a guardian angel. It speaks to the heartache, healing, and hope that many feel when going through hard times, and loss ...
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A Poem by Pablo Neruda

Date 22 June 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
A Poem – By Pablo Neruda “Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly you forget meDo not look for meFor I shall already have forgotten you If you think it long and mad the ...
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The Art of Release

Date 17 June 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
Learn to let go. Close the chapter, or hang on and carry the weight of mental health and stress. We hold on to people, places, and memories – afraid, that we'll have nothing if we let go. Not always sure how to let go, thinking we have no real choice,…
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Autism and the Gut-Brain Struggle

Date 12 June 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
The Overlooked Connection Between Autism, Digestion and Mental Health Children with autism present differently. I presented, I didn't know I was different, but the signs were there. My digestion problems mostly ...
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