Category: Living with Diabetes
My wonderful friend and now partner in Diabetes Wellbeing Services, Lauren Botting and I, were always destined to join together in our diabetes journey. Walking separate diabetes paths for a number of years, we met a decade ago and had an instant connection around our passion and belief in the importance of mental health and…
Read moreI have made it my goal the past few years of my life, to try and live a “recycle” lifestyle. By this I don’t mean that I only eat food out of rubbish bins, or I will never shop in a store for anything. I have been moving towards this for many years, growing up…
Read moreCome on Arnie, bring it on. Tomorrow is Judgement Day. My first visit to the Endocrinologist AKA Diabetes Doctor, in over 8 months. And my last blood results, given to me by my Gastroenterologist, AKA Stomach Doctor, over the phone, were a few months back where he informed me that “everything is fine…
Read moreSo apparently the quest for the “G-spot” continues. An article today at “Australian Doctor” http://www.australiandoctor.com.au/news/no-proof-of-female-g-spot- states that the female G-spot remains a “mythical location”, after an extensive literature trawl failed to definitively prove its existence. Well folks, I can tell you I have found my “G-spot” and it is not really where you would think!…
Read moreOut of the mouths of babes. That really is true. I have come to realise this after having 3 lovely boys. Now aged 18 years old, 12 years old and 3 years old they have brought me joy, tears, sadness, happiness, laughter, cuddles, sticky fingers (and floors), frustration, awe, imagination, pleasure and immense love. Having…
Read moreWaiting. I sometimes feel like I spend my whole life waiting. Waiting to grow up, to get my license, to leave school, leave home, leave town. Waiting to get out of bad relationships and in the the “right one”. Waiting to get married, to get pregnant, waiting for babies to be born. Waiting for kids…
Read moreWhen I started www.diabetescounselling.com.au all those years ago in 2001, there were not many voices in the online space for people living with diabetes. The Internet was still new and in Australia, the wonderful Type 1 Diabetes Network http://www.d1.org.au (then just Reality Check) was the loudest voice I could find and a fine one at that….
Read moreWhen I was first considering an Insulin Pump I remember worrying about a lot of things, but one big one was how my kids would handle the pump, or more to the point, given we were planning baby number 3 at the time – how would the Pump handle the kids!! Over the years I…
Read moreNew year resolutions….what is that all about? Should we be making resolutions once a year, or making commitments to ourselves and others more often? How many of us stick to these resolutions? And do they fit with our values and beliefs about life? Common resolutions include things like, “get healthier”, “lose weight”, “eat better”, “give…
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