Reba Redmond: Guilt as a type 1 parent, DKA, mental illness and celebrating the ordinary
Sign up for free
Listen to this episode and many more. Enjoy the best podcasts on Spreaker!
Download and listen anywhere
Download your favorite episodes and enjoy them, wherever you are! Sign up or log in now to access offline listening.
Description
I can’t tell you how much I love this week's chat - for so many reasons! Reba Redmond is a writer, public speaker and diabetes advocate living in Ontario, Canada....
show moreReba Redmond is a writer, public speaker and diabetes advocate living in Ontario, Canada. I hereby declare her a Diabetes VIP too, as she’s a distant cousin of Sir Frederick Banting who co-discovered insulin in 1921 and is the reason anyone with type 1 diabetes is alive today. But Reba is also a rare and brilliant human - one who can articulate the complex and unique challenges of a life lived with type 1 diabetes (and many other difficulties) without any sense of grandeur or call for pity. From a derailing diagnosis as a teenager, living with multiple mental illnesses and an episode of DKA that nearly ended her life, to overcoming needle phobia, the need for perfect blood glucose levels and dealing with the gut-wrenching guilt of being a parent with type 1 diabetes, Reba takes us on an incredibly heartfelt, eloquent yet pragmatic and humble journey of what it means to be human in this episode.
“We spend so much of our lives with diabetes focussed on numbers that we get lost as people,” she says. Her honest, authentic writing on both her blog A Soul Is A Resilient Thing and her Instagram account @rebaredmond is a breath of fresh air in a curated virtual landscape of filters and so-called ‘straight liners’. I hope you enjoy Reba’s generous truth and wisdom as much as I did.
Follow Reba on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebaredmond
Check out Reba's blog: https://asoulisaresilientthing.com
This episode is sponsored by Dexcom and Ypsomed MyLife Diabetescare
https://www.dexcom.com
https://www.mylife-diabetescare.com
Information
Author | Jen Grieves |
Organization | Jenny Grieves |
Website | - |
Tags |
Copyright 2024 - Spreaker Inc. an iHeartMedia Company