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4 Ways Parents with Diabetes Can Stay Active

Exercising is important if you live with type 2 diabetes. Here are some ways to stay active with a busy lifestyle.

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Workplace Stress Worsened My Chronic Illness

My Crohn's disease came out of remission after 10 years, and I believe workplace stress played a major role. Here's how I handled it.

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How to Find Meaning After Grieving the Former You

After my diagnosis, it took time to accept my new life. But I still struggled to understand its meaning. The sixth stage of grief helped me find meaning.

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How Movement Became My Medicine

I was only 4 years old when I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. Slowly but surely I started to understand the consequences of missing playtime and not moving my body.

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Gardening Is My Mindfulness Practice of Choice — Here’s Why

Watching my plants grow and bloom, as well as the benefits of grounding, are just some of the ways gardening teaches me to be more mindful for my chronic illness.

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The Mindflight Journal: A Journal for Chronic Illness

Meet Nicole and Aisley, the mom and daughter partnership behind the Mindflight Journal. Building from their own experiences, they've designed a journal for those living with chronic illnesses. Trust me, it's a game-changer.

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A Public Health Crisis: Preventing Loneliness in Chronic Illness

Loneliness is more prevalent than ever in the U.S. — and people with chronic illness are likely familiar with it. Here's how to stay socially connected even when symptoms or flare-ups get in your way.

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5 Chair Exercises for People with Type 2 Diabetes

Regular exercise is essential when you live with type 2 diabetes. Whether you're newly diagnosed, looking for an easy way to change up your routine, or have mobility issues, these seated exercises can help you get some movement in.

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How ASMR Can Benefit People with Chronic Illness

If you live with a chronic illness, ASMR may help you feel relaxed, comforted, or even relieved from chronic pain. But triggers aren't the same for everyone.

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4 Benefits of Therapy — and How It Has Helped Me Face Diabetes-Related Fears

If diabetes is affecting your mental health, there's no shame in seeking therapy with a mental health professional. Here's how therapy helped change my outlook on life with type 2 diabetes.

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Consistency Is Overrated

Consistency helps us feel safe and reduces anxiety. But it also can create unreasonable expectations. Here’s how to redefine consistency (and success) so you’re OK with the ebbs and flows of life.

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How to Pack Your Meds and Safely Travel With Type 2 Diabetes

Planning is key when you’re heading off on vacation with type 2 diabetes. Here’s how to pack your insulin, navigate airport security, and prepare for potential emergencies.

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If You Experience Health Anxiety, You’re Not Alone

Health anxiety is common in people living with chronic conditions — and your fears are real and understandable. Learn tips for reducing anxiety and how to get help if needed.

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How to Exercise and Manage Stress for Type 2 Diabetes on a Tight Budget

Exercise and stress reduction are important factors for diabetes management, and they can often be pricey. But there are plenty of inexpensive and free ways to add these self-care methods into your life.

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The Importance of Being a Hustle Culture Dropout When You’re Chronically Ill

The constant pressure to go-go-go took a toll on both my physical and mental health. Then I realized I could opt out.

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How to be Supportive When Your Partner Has a Chronic Condition

When your partner lives with a chronic condition it can be hard to know the best ways to support them. Here's how I would want a partner to support me in my daily life with chronic illness.

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Realistic Approaches to Setting Resolutions When You Live with a Chronic Condition

Living with a chronic condition often means working within your body’s parameters, which can mean editing your expectations. Always give yourself grace and remember that your New Year’s resolutions — if you choose to set them — don’t have to “match” anyone else’s. They only have to feel helpful to you.

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5 Tips I Use to Manage Holiday Stress with Type 2 Diabetes

The holidays can bring extra stress into your life. But when you're managing type 2 diabetes, it's important to learn tips to reduce stress so you keep your blood sugar levels managed.

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Don’t Wait Until the New Year: 3 Tips for Starting an Exercise Plan for Type 2 Diabetes Now

Exercise is an essential part of managing type 2 diabetes. With the new year approaching, get ahead of your fitness-related resolutions by following these tips to get moving now.

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Mindset Matters: Moving Through the Strange Feeling of Grieving Your Old Life

Grieving your old self is a little different than grieving a loved one who's passed. Here's how I moved forward.

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8 Things I Learned During My First Year of Being a Parent with Chronic Illness

Being able to have kids was my first surprise. I've faced a lot of other challenges and surprises in the first year of my son's life. Here's what I learned and my advice.

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10 Ways You Can Get Involved This Diabetes Awareness Month

Bezzy T2D community guide, Mila Clarke, shares her favorite ways to get involved in Diabetes Awareness Month.

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11 Tips for Staying Active with Type 2 Diabetes When the Weather Gets Colder

People with type 2 diabetes know the importance of exercise, but colder weather can affect your routine. These tips can help you get back on track.

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How to Stop Making a Mountain Out of a Molehill with Chronic Illness

Worry and anxiety are common among people with chronic illnesses. These tips can help you slow down and understand your emotions to both improve your mood and your quality of life.

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How to Set and Achieve Your Goals with Chronic Illness

Managing your chronic illness on top of life's everyday tasks can be overwhelming. These tips can help you find the motivation and inspiration you need to reach your goals.

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How I Navigate Professional Life While Living with a Chronic Illness

When I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), I was terrified that my career was over. These tips helped me adapt my work life so that I could excel.

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When You Don’t Live with a Chronic Condition, You Don’t See the Full Picture

Some of the most difficult parts of living with chronic illness are the aspects that others don't see.

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Mindset Matters: How to Gently Stop the Mental Spirals That Accompany Chronic Illness

It's easy to spiral into negative thought patterns with chronic illness. But with a little self-awareness and reframing, you can start to get your thoughts under control.

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4 Tips for Managing Diabetes-Related Anxiety

Diabetes-related anxiety is all too common. Getting to the root of your anxiety and taking action is one of the best ways to lessen your anxious thoughts.

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Mindset Matters: Fostering Self-Love and Rediscovering Yourself Post-Diagnosis

Mindset Matters is led by Nat Kelley, a certified life and mindset coach. This month, she focuses on ways to practice self-love and find the "new you" after a diagnosis.

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Mindset Matters: Who Am I with Chronic Illness? Acceptance and Letting Go

Mindset Matters is a space to learn about the mental and emotional aspects of living with chronic illness. Nat Kelley, a certified life and mindset coach, shares how coming to terms with her ulcerative colitis diagnosis was hard, but it allowed her to build a more compassionate relationship with herself.

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5 Ways People Living with Type 2 Diabetes Manage Their Mental Health

Caring for both your mind and body is crucial to helping you cope with type 2 diabetes holistically — here are some tips on how to do it.

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Connecting the Dots on Diabetes: Self-Reflection and Keeping Track of Diabetes Medications

Sydney Williams discusses the benefits of creating a ritual for taking diabetes medications, along with prompts to start your own self-reflection practice.

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Connecting the Dots on Diabetes: Self-Reflection and Your Diabetes Movement Plan

As you start to move more, you give yourself more opportunities to reflect. And as you reflect more, you get to know yourself better.

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5 Language Swaps and Mindset Shifts to Help You Feel Empowered with Diabetes

Despite any stigma and shame you may feel around your diabetes diagnosis, you have the power to shift your mindset.

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Connecting the Dots on Diabetes: The Benefits of Self-Reflection

Developing a self-reflection practice has helped Sydney Williams manage her diabetes by learning more about herself and how she feels. Here's how you can start your own practice.

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How Nature-Based Therapy Can Improve Your Mental Health

Medication isn’t the only way to treat your mental health when you live with a chronic condition. You might be surprised by all the benefits you can find right in the world around you.

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5 Tips for Safe Backcountry Adventures When You’re Living with a Chronic Condition

Wherever you're starting out on your outdoor recreation journey, these five tips from experienced, outdoorsy chronic illness warriors will help you find your way.

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How to Manage the Stress of Living with Type 2 Diabetes

Stress can be a part of daily life with type 2 diabetes. But there are strategies you can implement to prevent it from impacting your long-term health.

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Uncover These 3 Superpowers to Reduce Pandemic Stress

We can't control the ongoing pandemic, but we can control how we react to the stress it's creating in our lives.

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How Chronic Illness Helped Me Cultivate Better Reading Habits

Through bibliotherapy I've learned that books can offer greater insight and healing than I ever imagined, as long as I pay attention.

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What Working as a Care Provider Taught Me About Caring for Myself When I Was Diagnosed with T2D

As a certified professional midwife, Jana Studelska saw many people with diabetes. But once she was diagnosed, she found herself wishing for more support.

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5 Benefits of Disclosing Your Diagnosis While Dating

There is so much power, beauty, and potential that exists in revealing your health condition to a new dating partner.

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6 Tips for Taking Care of Your Mental Health When You Live with a Chronic Condition

Six community members share their advice for navigating the mental health impact of living with a chronic condition.

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The Benefits of Gratitude When You’re Living with a Chronic Illness

Shifting to an attitude of gratitude can be the difference between surviving and truly thriving.

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The Importance of Setting Boundaries When You’re Living with a Chronic Condition — and How to Get Started

Your energy is too precious to be wasted on plans and activities that don't serve your health.

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How Hiking Helped Me Heal My Body and Manage My Type 2 Diabetes

Hiking was exercise that didn’t feel like exercise. Not only was this great for my physical health, contributing to more than 70 pounds lost since my type 2 diabetes diagnosis, it was also incredible for my mental health.

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Connecting the Dots on Diabetes: My Mission to Address the Root Cause of Diabetes

Is there a relationship between trauma and diabetes? If so, if we treat the trauma, can we more effectively treat diabetes?

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Connecting the Dots on Diabetes: Making the Outdoors More Inclusive

I found deep healing in the outdoors, and I want everyone to be able to experience the same.

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5 Tips for Staying Active with Type 2 Diabetes

Bezzy T2D community members share their tips for finding an exercise routine that works for them.

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5 Ways to Actually Enjoy the Holiday Season with Type 2 Diabetes

With a little planning, you’ll be able to manage holiday temptations while enjoying time with the people you love.

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Type 2 Diabetes Made a Runner Out of Me

My diagnosis was a wake-up call. It was time to take care of my health.

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Love and Disability: How to Tell Your Date About Your Chronic Illness

Knowing your person is out there doesn’t make disclosing your health history any easier, but these tips can help.