Accepting that anxiety is just part of having diabetes is hard. AND until we can process it all, we often fight it. It is part of who we are.

Halloween is upon us…..then comes all the other chocolatey type holidays after that, until basically May. How do we deal with it all? So many opportunities for eating and overeating….

Newsflash…I snuck food as a kid.

But what if it’s off? What if I go low? Is it that it is easy to just “blame” the pump’s calculation? Or is actually looking at the number the pump wants to give us really just more of a surprise? It’s really though, just about trust.

Do you feel like you are the team captain of your diabetes? Feel confident in communicating your role to others?

You know you need help. Or someone in your family does, with diabetes beyond the numbers. How do you know? Now what?

Connections are so important. This event defined that times a million.

Desperate to figure out what they actually ate at lunch because you’re like “how the heck did the blood sugar randomly get to 350 an hour after recess?”

The last thing a teen or young adult wants around the holidays is to be nagged….check out the tips on how to work through being “home for the holidays.”

Gadgets and Gizmos a plenty….but something else might help make their lives with T1D just a bit more fun! Check out my TOP TEN T1D GIFT GUIDE!

I like to follow the 80/20 rule. 80% of the time let’s shoot for time in range, pre bolusing and all the “shoulds” that we strive for with T1D day to day management, and then give yourself grace for that 20%. I would definitely recommend telling yourself that Thanksgiving is one of those days that is part of that 20%.

Coaching is like therapy in that sense. It is an investment in your health and well-being, your future.

Some love it, others quickly switched back to a different system. I hung on….and I’m glad I did.

There is no right or wrong “when” or magical age to start caring about your diabetes, it just has to be driven by the person with T1D…

How can parents ever turn off their sense of fear and guilt?

Stress is invisible. And often the reason our kids blood sugars can be out of range…

Acknowledging your kid/teens strengths before you jump to any conclusions is KEY!

Sending me to camp was hands down the best thing my parents did for me.

The mental load of managing it without a break is constant. But we do it.

Twenty years of tubing.