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As  healthcare  professionals,  we  owe it to you not only to provide medical  information and technical management  skills but also to help you manage  feelings  and  emotions. 

 

While knowledge about how to  manage  diabetes  is  extremely  important,  just  “knowing”  won’ t  be enough to help you make it through to feeling better. 

 

It’s not just about knowing,  it’s about feeling and feeling comfortable about letting  feelings come up and be  expressed.

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How you deal  with difficult feelings and  emotions and how your family  deals  with  each  other  will  help  you  use  the  knowledge  and management  information  that  you’ll need to learn in order to get on  with your lives.  How you, as parents, talk with each other,  how  you  support  each other, how well you deal  with  that  and  deal  with  how other people in your  family deal with that will  have tremendous impact  on your child’s medical control, management  and psychological  adjustment.

It’s my job, together  with  all  the  other  people in this book, to  help  you  learn  how  to  deal  with  the  feelings  so that you can suit  up and show up for  managing this disease on a daily basis. We’re all here to let you  know you’re not alone!

Over the years I’ve seen so clearly that the families who deal with the  psychological stuff with “eyes wide open” do better with the technical management stuff. They are the ones that do the best.

My clinical experience in the  United States and abroad for the past  35 years has shown me that this area – the tools and guidelines for the  integration of emotional and  psychological well-being in diabetes – needs to be more available to patients, their families and health care  professionals. If you feel “right” then  you can get into action. If you’re not  feeling right and balanced then it’s hard  to get into action and do what you  need to do to move on with your life in  an engaged and productive way.

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