Posts Tagged ‘Normality’

The battle of the fat – survivor vs designer

*+-As a long term “diabetic” “person with type 1 diabetes” “pancreatically challenged person” or whatever you may like to call it, I have also battled a life long war with weight….I am one of those lucky people who got not only the gene that led to type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune problems, but the…

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On the wire without a safety net…

*+-Now I was thinking when I was away on my Easter beach holiday, about the thin line we can walk when we live with diabetes. Depending on the type of diabetes, how long you have lived with it, how you choose to manage and your own personal preferences and personality, you may or may not…

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The dark side of normality

*+-Have you ever felt like you didn’t “measure up”, didn’t quite “cut the grade”? Perhaps you felt “not good enough” or inadequate or worthless? Maybe a sense you just didn’t have it “all together” as you would like, or you dropped the bundle? This is how Michael White, the founder of Narrative Therapy, once described…

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