Category: Mental Health

What is the Health at Every Size Movement?

Is being thin and small the only way to be healthy? The Health at Every Size movement says no! A person's weight doesn't define them.

Yoga for People with Diabetes

Interested in yoga? Then this piece is for you. Lauren Bongiorno shares how yoga helped her manage diabetes, including helping her become more mindful about her food choices and practice discipline.

How to Find Therapy Online

Online and telehealth options for therapy can help you personalize your mental health care to fit your life.

How Diabetes Impacts Your Mood

Blood sugar fluctuations and constant stress means diabetes can easily impact your mood...

Just Diagnosed with Diabetes? Why and How to Find Mental Health Support

Just diagnosed with diabetes? No matter how you're feeling right now, you deserve help; here's how to find it.

I need to take insulin but I’m scared of needles…

Are you struggling to take your insulin as prescribed because of a fear of needles? Learn more about needle phobia here.

Body Image: You Don’t Need to be Skinny to be Fit

Plenty of extremely active, fit people look decidedly “average” by the insane standards of our current society and they are kicking butt every day. You don’t have to be stick thin to be thriving...

Moving Past Denial With Type 2 Diabetes

Denial is all too common for people newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and for good reason. Let's take a closer look...

Diabetes Burnout

Diabetes burnout is a state in which someone with diabetes grows tired of managing their condition, and then simply ignores it for a period of time, or worse, forever.

How Therapy Helped Me After My Diabetes Misdiagnosis

For T’ara Smith, the tools she learned in therapy to manage negative thoughts helped her weather big life transitions—and a misdiagnosis of type 2 diabetes.