About Emotional Healing and Quiet Trauma

Maybe You’re Not Stuck – Just Tired From Everything you Carry Silently.

Weights that we carry, that have no name.

They live in us – a tightening in the chest, feeling anxious, depressed, a tiredness that even sleep can’t touch.

They're not always the big, dramatic traumas. Often, it’s the quiet ones that accumulate, the small invisible wounds that add to our anxious or depressed state.

We’re taught to carry on to smile, and to keep going. But beneath the surface, there lies the story – one of silent struggles brought about through unmet needs, and suppressed emotions.

If you’re reading this, maybe you are beginning to engage. Maybe part of your healing begins right here.

Let this be a space where you acknowledge your traumanot to rush – or to judge –  but to acknowledge your emotions.

Emotional wellness comes from acknowledgement, knowing what to correct externally and within yourself. It comes from processing your emotions. It comes from letting go of what isn’t yours.

Let this be your gentle reminder that:

Healing has to start through showing up, being present and telling yourself you deserve more – to act – to make emotional wellness work.

Ilana Estelle is a mental health and wellbeing advocate who combines educational insight with her personal experience of living with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities. She holds diplomas in Counselling, Diet and Nutrition, Nutritional Therapy, Psychotherapy and Counselling, and Stress Management. Through her writing, Ilana supports others in navigating their emotional, mental, and physical health challenges. In addition to writing for The CP Diary, her work has appeared in healthy lifestyle magazines. Ilana is also the author of three books: Cerebral Palsy: A Story – Finding the Calm After the Storm, Spirituality, Healing and Me, and Survival: The Covid Years – Time for Change.

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