A voice for living well with Type 1 Diabetes

Daily Self-Care Practices

Are you interested in a low-cost, high-return difference maker for your diabetes? Daily Self-Care Practices! Mindset influences our bodies, including our diabetes. I’ve found that a daily commitment to self-care practices positively influences my mindset. While...

Facing the Fears of Diabetes: 3 Strategies that Help

Living with type 1 presents numerous challenges, stresses, and fears. The list includes hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, complications, early death, injections, burnout, body weight, being judged, pregnancy, money, data, wearables, and insertables. Whew … That’s an...

2022 Diabetes Wellness Review – Mind

This is the seventh post reviewing a spoke, or Cluster of Help, in the Diabetes Wellness Wheel. Below is the wheel with my standards, 2022 assessment, and adjustments for 2023 for Mindset. Diabetes Wellness Wheel   Mindset can be a difference maker … especially...

Time & Place

Early in my life, I kept my diabetes mostly a secret … only sharing it with those I trusted to not judge me for having diabetes. I wasn’t alone. Others, including a childhood hero, Ron Santo, did the same thing for the same reason. Over the past two decades, I’ve...