T1D adult camp: exploring mental health
Back to camp I go! Last month, I had the privilege to host an interactive workshop on mental health and T1D at Connected in Motion’s Western Slipstream 2024.
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Certified Diabetes Educator – approved!
You can just call me CDE: Certified Diabetes Educator! Hi friends! This post has taken me awhile to get to, but better late than never, am I right 😉 Last May, I took a gruelling 4-hour exam, after months and months of studying to become a Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE), and late last month I got the results. I am officially a T1D, RD, CDE. So. Many. Letters. And you better believe I’ll be using all of them on my official signing off documents 🙂 What does it mean – part 1 Officially, a Certified Diabetes Educator is a health professional (like me!) that is “committed to excellence in diabetes education“, and who has a “sound knowledge base in diabetes care, management, and education processes.” Good communication skills and passing the CDE exam are also must haves to be a Certified Diabetes Educator. Unofficially, honestly, it’s an extra set of
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Podcast: Relationships with T1D
Relationships with type-1 diabetes can be challenging for many couples. But for Rob Barry and Laura Gee it’s actually considered a benefit. That’s because they both have type-1 diabetes. In this month’s episode of Diabetic to Dietetics Rob Barry and Laura Gee discuss what it’s like to have two people with T1D in a relationship. They also share their committed involvement with diabetes research and diabetes advocacy. For additional information, read the article below the podcast link. Benefits of two-person T1D relationship Many other relationships with type-1 diabetes usually feature one partner with the condition, not both. And that can be a challenge. It can be a challenge navigating the moods of blood sugar swings, or understanding the importance of nutrition, or even just having diabetes there all the time. The partner without type-1 diabetes cannot fully grasp this disease no matter how exposed they’ve been to it. But a
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Perfectly imperfect with T1D
Perfection is not possible with type-1 diabetes. In this post, BC dietitian with T1D Katie Bartel shares steps on becoming perfectly imperfect with your T1D
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Podcast: Life of an actor with type-1 diabetes
New podcast episode: Host and T1D dietitian Katie Bartel explores life as an actor with type-1 diabetes through the experiences of BC actor with T1D Veenu Sandhu
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