Embracing Diabetes, compassion, community and creativity
Welcome to Embracing Diabetes, a podcast that explores the many different ways people are living with diabetes in the world. Join co-hosts Amy Stockwell and Dr Liz Stephens, colleagues and friends who have lived with type one diabetes for decades. Liz and Amy launched Embracing Diabetes so they could talk to creative, smart, inspiring, and thoughtful people living with type one and share their stories with you! People with type one diabetes come in all shapes and sizes, but we share this one thing -- this frustrating, challenging, expensive chronic illness -- that binds us together and we are always stronger together. We hope you are as inspired by these interviews as we are.
Embracing Diabetes, compassion, community and creativity
How to Thrive with Diabetes
As someone who has lived with Type One Diabetes for 50 years, Riva Greenberg is full of wisdom. She is also relentlessly positive and describes her approach to life with T1D as Flourishing. She also uses words like patience, gratitude and acceptance and wants to help the rest of us learn to speak this language of empowerment. She advises providers and people with diabetes that there's no such thing as control.
"This is a complex condition and helping providers work on the relationship and interaction so it's one of safety and trust and collaboration, because I truly, in my heart of hearts, believe that's as vital to outcomes and people doing well as is medicine and devices."
If you live or love someone with diabetes (or another chronic illness for that matter), this conversation will (hopefully) inspire you!
Bio
Riva Greenberg is a health coach, health researcher, author, corporate advisor and inspirational speaker. She’s developed an approach for health professionals to help people not merely cope with their diabetes, but flourish. She has brought this science-based Flourishing Approach, and its skills, to thousands of health professionals around the world. Riva has worked with the CDC to brand DSMES, spent 10 years as an A1C Champion peer-mentor traveling the US, has written three books, hundreds of articles and a blog, DiabetesStories. She has spoken at the World Health Organization and United Nations, and is recognized for her humanistic work by professional associations and organizations. In February, Riva celebrated 50 years of living successfully with type 1 diabetes.
Resources
Web blog DiabetesStories
Video Interviews
Flourishing with Diabetes
How to advocate for yourself
Books
Diabetes Do's & How-To's
50 Diabetes Myths That Can Ruin Your Life
The ABCs Of Loving Yourself With Diabete
Chapter - "When Disease Requires a Complexity Framework," Cynefin – weaving sense-making into the fabric of our world
Top HuffPost - "Type 1 Diabetes Finally Explained"
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