Welcome to 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened'! Episode 5
If you are a person living with diabetes or a health professional that facilitates diabetes care, you are in the right place!
Join us in the journey ahead, as we grow together in understanding, insight, and self-awareness and ultimately change lives for the better!
Our deliberations will always be honest, challenging and thought-provoking. Nothing is off the table as we discuss real people, their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.
This week, Stan and Michael,
- How Kirsten ‘got into diabetes’ 😉
- Her struggles with independent self-management and her descent into ‘diabetes burnout’
- Kirsten felt judged by certain words
- Her journey to becoming an advocate for diabetes
- Connecting the lived experience to clinical care and self-care – ‘seeing’ the person behind the numbers
- What advocacy is NOT – a pragmatic and tactical approach to advocacy
- the successful advocacy push for access to continuous glucose monitoring and its role as an 'enabler'
- How this campaign may have contributed to a pilot literally ‘regaining his wings’
- Kirsten’s journey back into participating fully in life again
- Kirsten’s perspectives on facilitating the 4-week Advocacy Course presented by SA Diabetes Advocacy
- Bias in diabetes care and the importance of self-awareness in reducing bias
If you have any questions, suggestions, comments or contributions for future episodes, or if you would like to advertise on this podcast, please email us @ Podcast@CDEDiabetes.co.za
For health professionals working in diabetes
The CDE Academy Foundation Course in Diabetes Care for Health Professionals is a real-world-applicable online learning experience at one’s own pace. It can be accessed 24/7/365 and offers 30 CPD points. More information on this challenging, cutting-edge Course available @ https://academy.cdeonline.co.za/
