Showing results for "it" in Diabetes

An actionable toolkit to help you manage the emotional burden of type 1 diabetes written by a psychologist who knows firsthand how much T1D sucks. Life with T1D is unpredictable and filled with never-ending work, leading to overwhelm and burnout. Diabetes gets even more challenging when you believe you can’t handle this stress. In this guide to navigating the emotional challenges of T1D, Dr. Mark Heyman shows how life becomes easier when you accept that T1D sucks and believe you can handle it.

We all have habits we know we should change, but what happens when the cost of keeping them becomes too high? For years, Gerardo “Jerry” Gutierrez told himself he had time. Time to eat better. Time to take his health seriously. Time to break the patterns he had inherited. But after a third bout with pancreatitis and a lifetime of unchecked habits catching up with him, time ran out. All My Cake & What It Cost Me is a deeply personal journey of reckoning with the habits we inherit, the choices we avoid, and the slow, intentional process of real change.

As a nurse, now retired, how I wish I could have convinced every one of the patients that came across my path with chronic disease like diabetes to do self-care better. Even when making all the educational resources available to them, some of them still came back worse than before. I found that consistent teamwork with the patient was a game changer.

If you're looking for an encyclopedia about diabetes - full of scientific jargon and endless detailed instructions on every aspect of managing the disease, this audiobook is not it. On the other hand, if you've just been diagnosed with diabetes or you're just coming to grips with it after spending some time arm wrestling the idea, this quick listen can jump-start your life by providing many of the tips, hints, and inside information the others don't.