Anxiety is very common in people with diabetes, and for good reason. In life with diabetes -- type 1 or type 2 -- there can be a constant ...
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Emotional Health
Emotional Health
Emotional Health
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Emotional Health
Diabetes & Depression: What You Need to Know
It’s no wonder people with diabetes experience a higher rate of depression compared to the non-diabetic population. Every single day we are ...
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Emotional Health
Diabulimia – Symptoms, Resources & Recovery
This article was designed to avoid triggering disordered eating behaviors in readers. It’s intended to be a safe place to read about and ...
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Health & Lifestyle
Diabetes, Self-Care and Self-Love
How do you practice self-care and self-love as someone living with diabetes? I think doing so is incredibly important and a big component of ...
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Weight Management
How to Lose Weight in an Emotionally Safe Way
It's a new year, and if you're like many people, one of your New Year's resolutions may be to lose weight and improve your health. The ...
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Emotional Health
Diabulimia Recovery: 3 Patients Share Their Story
This article was designed to avoid triggering disordered eating behaviors in readers. It’s intended to be a safe place to read about and ...
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Emotional Health
Diabetes Burnout: Why It Might Not Be What You Think It Is (And How to Work Through It!)
The following is an excerpt from the book, “Dealing with Diabetes Burnout,” by Ginger Vieira. It’s hard to give just one definition for ...
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Weight Management
Habits that Lead to Emotional Eating & Over-Eating
This is an excerpt from Ginger Vieira’s book, “Emotional Eating with Diabetes.” You’ve probably tried a dozen (or two dozen) times to ...
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Emotional Health
Flourishing With Diabetes: A New Mindset
Call me crazy – some do – but I think living with diabetes actually offers us some benefits. It has me. For instance, it’s given me more ...
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Health & Lifestyle
How a Mental “Body Scan” Can Help Your Diabetes Management
Recently, I was talking with a young woman - we'll call her Katie - who was having a really hard time seeing the value of managing her ...
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Health & Lifestyle
What Does It Mean to Be Healthy with Diabetes?
Being healthy, and being healthy with diabetes, means different things to different people! Because there’s no single answer when it ...
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Health & Lifestyle
Empowered with Diabetes: How to Build Mental Strength and Confidence
By Dr. Mark Heyman, Diabetes Psychologist and Certified Diabetes Educator If you could be empowered with diabetes, what would it look ...
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Health & Lifestyle
Setting Yourself Up for Long-Term Success with Diabetes
Diabetes is not easy and it doesn’t go away. It’s something we have to deal with every day, even when we really don’t want to, and it can be ...
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Building Mental Strength with Positive Inner Talk
How do you quit, no, how do you shut down, that little nagging voice telling you that you can’t achieve your goals, that you’ll never figure ...
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Health & Lifestyle
What Does It Mean to Be “Strong With Diabetes”?
You have written up your health and diabetes goals and I have provided you with a good resistance training program, so you’re all set and ...
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Exercise
5 Things Diabetes Has Taught Me About My Body and Mind
There are days when I really just want a huge holiday from my 30 years of diabetes. It has brought me to tears, made me angry; at times it ...
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Health & Lifestyle
Are You Living ‘For’ Diabetes or ‘With’ Diabetes?
Diabetes is a chronic illness and, to be quite frank, a chronic pain in the ass. A fine line separates those who live for their diabetes ...
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Diabetes and Eating Disorder – How to Get the Right Support and Treatment
I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when I was 5 years old. Throughout my childhood, diabetes was simply a way of life because my father ...
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How to Sustain Your Motivation and Celebrate Your Successes
When we have a goal in mind, one of the most important factors involved in reaching that goal is our motivation to do so. First getting ...
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Health & Lifestyle
5 Things You Should NEVER Say to a Person with Diabetes
Being a fitness enthusiast with diabetes seems to give people, friends as well as strangers, the idea that it’s ok to comment on how much or ...