Articles on Fight-or-Flight Response

June’s Book Club: ‘The Wisdom of Your Body’ by Hillary L. McBride PhD
Today, I want to share insights from the first book featured in HealingT1D’s book club:


COVID’s Diabetes Link
I came across this article recently whilst rummaging around the World Wide Web. It highlighted how people who become infected with COVID-19 are more likely to develop Type

Alexithymia and Its Connection to T1D
I was first drawn to the work of Dr Kelly Turner when I read her book ‘Radical Remission’. This book outlined nine key factors involved in spontaneously healing from cancer. I believe

A Case Study of Post-Traumatic Type 1 Diabetes
During a hunt through various journals for information on Type 1 Diabetes, I recently came across a fairly old article in the The Pan African Medical Journal entitled

Self-Compassion
Self-compassion. Urgh. A topic like this is one that I steered away from for many years. I had the attitude that self-compassion was the route to self-destruction because, after all, if I’m being kind to myself, I’ll

The Beauty of Rest
I’m calling myself out! You see, when I wrote my post on ‘High Blood Pressure’, I said that I was going to start resting properly. I promise I did start doing that. I was doing my good solid 30 minutes of re-lax-ation.

Exhaustion
When I pictured healing from Type 1 Diabetes, I saw this wonderful image of me gorgeously improving in all areas of my life and flowing towards this wholeness that was natural and at peace. I thought the