It has taken two and a half years for me to get to here. There have been times where it’s been so difficult for me to see a corner, let alone turn one, but for the first time today, I am finding a resolve on one or two issues and I'm beginning to see things more clearly.

Some of the other issues still haven’t been fully resolved, but today we are celebrating. Claudia is home from her holiday and now has four amazing AS results to go back into school with in September.

She is ready to start her last year of school before she embarks on her university choices. My day couldn’t get any better. I’m literally on cloud 9.

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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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10 comments on “Light relief”

  1. Congratulations! It sounds like she's doing very well for herself and I'm sure she's just as thrilled as you.

    Hopefully things will continue looking up for you!

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