Learn how to better manage diabetes with mindfulness. Emerge from the course with an empowered sense of mindfulness and greater self-care strategies.

Living with diabetes can be challenging, confusing, and lonely. Mindfulness can help you deal with the challenges of living with diabetes. This course provides diabetes-specific mindfulness practices, as well as valuable diabetes tips and tools for truly Better Living with Diabetes. You will learn mindful eating for blood sugar balance; mindful self-compassion to help handle the complex emotions that occur with diabetes; engage in mindful movement, and learn specific simple, brief meditations to promote wellbeing. Personal coaching is woven in throughout the course. The 4-week program consists of 4 1-hour classes, offered once per week for a total of 4 hours.

Better Living with Diabetes

This session is an overview of diabetes –what it is, and how to care for it. It is also an introduction to the practice of mindfulness and self-compassion.

Pillars of Diabetes

This session dives deeper into the pillar of stress management and directly teaches the basics of stress reactivity in the body and the potential physiological outcomes. Participants then learn strategies to identify and address the stressful events and thoughts directly, leading to improved health and well-being.

Mindful Stress Management with Diabetes

This session is an introduction to mindful eating, as well as a broad overview of nutrition principles for living well with diabetes. Since diabetes meal plans are truly as individual as each person, it is not intended to be a prescription nor a “diabetic diet.” However, it opens a discussion about what food affects our health and diabetes in both positive and negative ways.

Healthy, Mindful Eating with Diabetes

This session explores the benefits of physical activity for people with diabetes, and encourages participants to connect with what forms of movement they enjoy.