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#185: Are Your Safety Behaviors Keeping You Safe?
My guess is you do a lot of things to keep yourself "safe" in your life with T1D. At least, you think these things keep you safe. Things like...
Checking your CGM every 5 minutes
Reducing your bolus for your food...
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#184: Be Open to the Possibility that T1D Can Get Easier
There is one thing that I know for sure. If you are closed off the possibility that life with T1D can get easier, it's never going to get easier.
Being open to the possibility of change greatly increases the...
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#183: What Success Looks Like with T1D + Mental Health
One question I always ask the people I work with is "What does success look like for you?". Their answer is almost always "I don't want to feel (insert negative emotion) anymore.
The challenge here is that it's almost...
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#182: Why Avoiding T1D Never Works
With your mental health with T1D, avoidance doesn't work.
In fact, when you avoid our negative emotions, it keeps you stuck in these emotions and you get the exact opposite results that you were hoping for.
Ā n this...
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#181: The Path to Mental Health with T1D is Never Straight
You are going to have setbacks in your mental health journey with T1D. As much as I wish that you wonāt, the path to emotional health is never a straight line. Expect there to be bumps along the road.
The issue isnāt...
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#180: How to Break Free from Your Blood Sugar Prison
Most of the folks I talk to feel like a prisoner of their blood sugars. They feel their glucose numbers dictate what they can and can't do, and they tell me they feel trappedāand like there's nothing they can do about...
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#179: How to Stop Over-treating Your Lows
Raise your hand if you ever over-treat your low blood sugars! šāāļø
If you tell me that you donāt, you either have a tremendous amount of self-control, or youāre lying!
Your brain is telling your body āI need food or...
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#178: Your T1D-Related Emotions are NOT Facts
Your emotions about T1D play aĀ importantĀ role in your life, but hereās a surprising revelationā¦
Their role is NOT to tell you facts. š®
Emotions are designed to keep you safe, even if it means believing things that...
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#177: Cultivating a Growth Mindset with T1D
Life with T1D can be demanding, testing our patience and resilience in ways that many others might not fully understand. It's a journey filled with ups and downs, and it's easy to focus on the challenges. However, I...
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#176: Unlocking Your Motivation for T1D Management
How motivated are you to manage your blood sugars?
I'm sure you know that motivation is a tricky thing. It isn't possible to just snap your fingers and have motivation appear out of thin air.
And even if you feel...
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#175: T1D + Mental Health Intentions for 2024
Instead of setting āresolutionsā for 2024, I decided to set T1D + mental health intentions for myself ā and I want to encourage you to do the same thing for yourself.
We all want to be more free and flexible in our...
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#174: Manage Your Emotions Around Lows with Confidence
Low blood sugar sucks for many reasons.
Of course, it makes your body feel pretty awful, but it also brings up some really uncomfortable emotions.
The other day, I was talking to someone about low blood sugar, and a...
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