It has taken courage for me to write about my disability and my experiences in my book: Cerebral Palsy ‘A Story’ Finding the Calm after the Storm, wasn't an easy book to write.

Not writing about or learning about my disability, or my symptoms, would have continued to keep me in the dark. I owed it to myself, to find out about 'me.'

My diagnosis

With a diagnosis at 46, I needed to work out what my symptoms were and my blog was very much the starting point for that. I wanted to learn about my disability, what my symptoms were and what they meant and how those symptoms played a role in my mental and emotional struggles growing up.

We are all truth seekers

Truth is the truth, I didn't want to continue to hide behind it. As human beings, we are truth seekers, it is our right to have and to hear the truth. It took courage for me to face the truth.

When it comes to the truth, others may still choose to believe what supports their agenda, but the universe will always knows the truth that lies beneath the surface of other people's awareness. The truth wins in the end. There is no escaping karma.

Words should be based on truth

Our words should be based on truth. My words are based on my truth, growing up, not knowing about my disability. I write about the higher order in the universe that continually looks for and works on truth.

Putting my trust in 'hope'

As a small child, growing up not knowing about my disability, I believed I would find out about my disability. I put my trust in hope, I never gave up. What we deal with is very much about us. If the shoe were on the other foot, others would make the same judgment call. After all we all have a right to know what we deal with. Yes, we all have a right.

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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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2 comments on “Truth Wins in the End”

  1. Your truth would always win in the end as untruths are built on a fragile structure, but the truth is built on solid foundations.

    Now you have been able to lift the veil, we can all see this was your destiny all along.

  2. Yes, I agree with you. When you're living the life you have, it's difficult to see the structure. I could never know then what I know now.

    I agree with your analogy, how true. It's not always easy to know what others may think, particularly family, but I would hope that given the delicate nature of 'my story' they would come to understand why finding out was important.

    I can't see why anyone would choose to ignore their disability, if they legitimately didn't know anything about it and needed to get to grips with the whole disability thing.

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