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When your child's CGM alarms at 2 a.m., does your body go into panic mode before your brain has a chance to think?
If you're raising a child with Type 1 diabetes, you know the constant mental load. The carb counting, the overnight alarms, the second guessing, and the pressure to get every decision right.
In this episode, Lauren and Risely’s Director of Coaching, Abby Cooper, sit down after spending three days at the Friends for Life Conference to share the seven things they wish every T1D caregiver knew. Not carb ratios or pump settings, but the beliefs, nervous system patterns, and relationship dynamics that quietly shape everything about how T1D feels to manage as a family. Including why shielding your child from the burden of this disease can work against them, why your nervous system matters just as much as their blood sugar, and why time and happiness deserves just as much weight as time in range.
WHAT WE COVER:
- Highlights from the Orlando Friends for Life Conference
- The surprising difference between teaching diabetes management and helping your child build a healthy relationship with diabetes
- Why your child's nervous system often mirrors yours, and practical ways to stay regulated during stressful diabetes moments
- The mistake many parents make when trying to "protect" their child from diabetes, and how to build confidence through age-appropriate independence
- How diabetes quietly creates resentment between partners, and the conversation most couples never realize they need to have
- Why T1D Facebook groups can leave parents feeling more anxious than informed, and how to know when it's time to step away
- Why one family with 93% Time in Range still felt like they were losing, and the powerful concept of Time in Happiness that completely reframes success as a T1D caregiver
WHAT’S NEXT:
🎓 August 4th and 5th Free Live Workshop: How to Stop Letting T1D Run Your Family's Life Without Second-Guessing Every Decision or Living in Fear. Register for free here: [LINK]
📱 The Risely App is here! Get support for the 180+ decisions you make every day, so you can build confidence with T1D without your life revolving around it.
🧠 Discover Your T1D Archetype! Take the free quiz to understand the pattern behind how you think, respond, and make decisions with T1D.
💻Apply for coaching and talk to our team so you can reclaim the life you deserve with T1D.
📧Join thousands of T1Ds reading our newsletter every Tuesday: T1D tips and encouragement, straight to your inbox.
Stay connected with us:
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