Mind Over Mellitus

With the new year still fresh, if you’re like me you’re thinking about all you want to accomplish and learn, how you can improve yourself, and what dreams to pursue. It’s so easy to get swept away with inspiration. It feels like there is a big, empty year out there waiting to be filled!
Being overly [...]

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I went to the doctor today for a checkup and an H1N1 shot. Personally, I prefer to administer my own flu shots — pain for me is less scary if I’m in control of it. I’m pretty used to this because I take insulin directly into my shoulder when my blood glucose is high.
Whether you are [...]

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(I wrote this for Taking Control of Your Diabetes, Volume 28, Q1 2009)
“Self-discipline?” Self-discipline sounds so remarkably un-saucy. In fact, it seems downright counter to happiness… a recipe to steal my “mojo,” rain on my parade, and turn me into some kind of cheerless robot. I want to do what I want to do, when I [...]

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(This article also appears in Diabetes Wellness News, September, 2008)
If, “We are what we repeatedly do…” as Aristotle said, then it’s no surprise that habits shape our lives.
If we don’t choose our habits consciously, the worst ones may have a profound impact on our health outcomes as diabetics. Many risk factors can be controlled by [...]

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So I was stressed, depressed, and down on my body after my diagnosis with Type 1. Not just from my doctor’s “educational” pamphlets about all the ways I am going to die, lose limbs, go blind, droopy, on dialysis, and all those other fun things. It was also from the huge highs and lows and [...]

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