Clean it Out – #DBlogWeek ’15 – Day 3

Find out what Diabetes Blog Week is all about. Check out the topics for each day’s posts, and even see a list of this year’s participants. Thank you, Karen! The question I’m answering today? What’s in my diabetic closet that needs to be cleaned out? There are a few different directions I could take here, but I really like the angle around diabetes emotions. My head is a mess. And I’m afraid to dig in and look at it. What do I mean? I don’t think I’m sick in the head, but to some degree, I think we’re all a little crazy from living with diabetes. There are things I do, repeatedly, that just don’t make sense logically. Like my unbalanced diet. There are psychological issues at the root of my eating behaviors that I’m just afraid to deal with, even though I know I should. I think of it like a big, chaotic garage or old basement that needs to be cleaned out. Lots of dark corners full of giant spiders, messy stuff, and things I don’t know what to do with. Not my basement… or my head. But it could be. Dig in, investigate, shine a light I worked with some terrific coaches over the years, and I wish everyone could have someone in their corner helping them (somewhat) objectively explore self-improvement. I learned that it takes a long time. I learned that there are no shortcuts. I learned that it is really hard work. I learned that it can be exhausting. And I learned that even the darkest, scariest corners of ...
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