Survivor: The Diabetes Edition

Type 2 diabetes is a sneaky beast, and often has been hiding in the background for far longer than people realize. So for many people, the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes also comes along with diagnosis of a complication. This is what happened to Mik…

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Yoga: Standing Warrior Series Today's practice is a standing warrior series. Some benefits of each pose in the series are: Standing at Attention/ Mt. Pose Benefits: can create a sense of grounding and centering. Can increase focus, improve balance and draw your awareness inward. Warrior II Benefits: can increase focus, strength, and presence. Can create an opportunity to track the fluctuations of the mind and a possibility to invite the breath to calm the mind. Extended Side Angle- Variation Benefits: energizing, strengthening, grounding, heart opener. Reverse Warrior Benefits: stretches sides of torso and arms, opens the hips, strengthening, opening. Click...
Advocacy, DSMA-Style The Diabetes Social Media (DSMA) Blog Carnival topic for the month of February asks us to explore the concept of "advocacy."In our diabetes community, the word gets tossed around a lot. What does it mean? Is blogging, attending conferences, or get......
Ask D’Mine, St. Paddy’s Edition: Revisiting Drinking & Diabetes with Uncle Wil Welcome back to our weekly advice column, Ask D'Mine!You may remember our special edition from late 2012, in which our T1 host and community D-educator Wil Dubois had a few things to say about drinking with diabetes. With St. Patrick's Day coming......
Diabetes Blog Week 2015 – It Starts with Knowing ‘I Can’ Welcome to D-Blog Week 2015, everyone!This annual effort, now in its sixth year, is a great "coming together" of the diabetes blogging community around selected topics that affect our collective lives. The effort is spearheaded by Karen Graffeo ......
Around the Diabetes Blogosphere: May 2013 Edition We're now at the end of the fifth month of 2013, which is simply amazing - how quickly this year is going by! With the summer months soon bringing a bunch of diabetes conference activity, we feel especially motivated to highlight all the great pos......