A diagnosis of type one diabetes comes with a large mental load, especially with an adult onset. Inside this episode, I sit down with Jiggy Yoon who has been a personal friend of mine for years (and years to come). Jiggy is the only Korean, lesbian, hip-hop dancing and rapping Type 1 Diabetic girl-who-lifts with tattoos, piercings who speaks so boldly of vulnerability.

With knowledge is power, with knowledge is more options and with knowledge is flexibility. I believe that with type one diabetes, we shouldn’t have to tie ourselves down to a structure with exercise or lifestyle simply because it works for our blood sugar. We should have the options in front of us to make it work for us and our bodies, our goals and our preferences.

2021.. was… an interesting one to say the least. I think we can all agree on that. Inside today’s episode, I share the four biggest lessons I learned this year – and how you can learn from them too.

It’s almost the new year, which means we’re in that part of December where it’s time to reflect on what we’ve accomplished over the last 365 days and what goals we want to set walking into the next 365. It can be easy to fall into the A1C and time in range goals. While they’re not bad goals to have, they’re not sustainable ones for the longevity of your management. 

We’ve all had the conversations in our endocrinologists office – retinopathy, neuropathy, glaucoma, nephropathy – there’s quite a list of potential risks that come with a diagnosis of type one diabetes. The one thing in common? They’re scary to think about, they’re frequently used as a scare tactic from our physicians, and having them doesn’t make you a bad diabetic.