Articles on Relaxation

Losing Weight With T1D

It feels very strange to be sitting down to write here again after six months away. I didn’t intentionally disappear for that long, but somewhere between life, health and

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A Personal Update

It feels very strange to be sitting down to write here again after six months away. I didn’t intentionally disappear for that long, but somewhere between life, health and

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Cortisol and Type 1 Diabetes

Do you ever feel completely drained, even after a full night’s sleep? Maybe you’ve noticed extra weight around your belly, a rounder face, or mood swings that seem to appear out of nowhere. If this sounds familiar, your body might be signalling something about cortisol — the hormone we often think of as “stress,” but that is really far more nuanced.

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Cortisol 101

Do you ever feel completely drained, even after a full night’s sleep? Maybe you’ve noticed extra weight around your belly, a rounder face, or mood swings that seem to appear out of nowhere. If this sounds familiar, your body might be signalling something about cortisol — the hormone we often think of as “stress,” but that is really far more nuanced.

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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

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