Mental Wellbeing Begins With You

Date 15 October 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
Taking Responsibility for Your Emotional Health Over the years, The CP Diary has become a space for exploring life’s challenges, understanding emotional wellbeing, and learning how our experiences shape us. One truth ...
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Patterns of One-Sided Behaviour

Date 10 October 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
When Attention Becomes One-Sided In everyday life, most of us will meet – or sometimes be the person who dominates a space. That space doesn’t have to be loud, but it’s often loud enough for others to feel unheard ...
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Jane Goodall: A Reflection on Living the Message

Date 7 October 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
Reflecting and Sitting in Truth "I have some anger around this loss. So many of us liked her, admired her, without listening to her. Without acting upon the message she so tirelessly worked to see manifest, right up to and ...
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Disillusioned With Politics? Finding Balance Again

Date 5 October 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
Politics, Disillusionment, and Pulling Back from Extremes What's happening in mainstream politics is concerning. It feels louder than ever, yet somehow less connected to the people it’s supposed to serve. Populism ...
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Rebuilding Trust Through Integrity and Honesty

Date 27 September 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
When integrity falters, everyone pays the price For those familiar with my journey, you’ll know that themes of truth, honesty, and integrity have been central for me – alongside the challenges of broken trust and the resilience ...
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The Quiet Work of Healing

Date 24 September 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
To Reflect is to Think is to Heal is to Change I've been writing for 15 years. Given what we've all been through around Covid, it's not surprising I still continue to think how much healing really matters. We're not healed ...
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The Quiet Weight of Control

Date 20 September 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
When Love Feels Like Control: Healing from Toxic Relationships To understand controlling relationships is to heal from those relationships. There’s a subtle kind of suffering that comes from living under someone else’s ...
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In Healing Ourselves, We Heal the World

Date 19 September 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
We’ve all carried trauma in some form, though some of us more deeply than others. Covid was not just a global event; it was a collective wound. It changed the way we lived, the way we thought, the way we related to one ...
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Why Caring for Your Mind Matters Most

Date 16 September 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
The constant changes, challenges, and uncertainties in today’s world can leave anyone feeling unsettled. That’s why looking after your mental health and overall wellbeing is more important than ever. Mental ...
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Transforming Pain into Personal Strength

Date 14 September 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
Finding Peace Within Yourself After choosing to sit with peace the journey doesn’t end – you have to make it work, it has to evolve. Making peace with yourself is the first step, but the next step is understanding and learning ...
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The World Covid Revealed

Date 10 September 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
Toxic Divides, Fragile Trust, Choice of Empathy It's vital we're honest: the Covid-19 pandemic didn’t just test our physical and emotional health, it cracked open the ugliness in the world. We saw how toxic politics could divide ...
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Holding Space for Rest and Reflection

Date 6 September 2025
Author Ilana Estelle
Choosing Rest, Reflection and Intention in Uncertain Times Writing for and managing social media isn't easy. There’s always a crisis unfolding on the social media feeds – political unease political divisions, economic ...
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