Category: Blog
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Celebrating 10 Years of the ACBRD
Recently the Australian Centre for Behavioural Research in Diabetes (ACBRD) celebrated their 10th anniversary. I was honoured to be invited to share what this significant milestone meant for me as a person living with diabetes at their webinar event. The more I reflected on this, the more I realised the…
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Finding Your Tribe
Peer support is a tricky and funny thing within the diabetes community. It exists in various forms; in person meetings, casual catch ups, to online forums and organised tweetchats. Peer support holds different meaning for each person. Some people I’ve spoken to think it’s unnecessary, many sing their praises and…
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National Diabetes Week 2020 – A focus on mental health
Diabetes management is more than just the physical health behaviours like blood glucose monitoring and healthy habits. There’s the mental and emotional wellbeing aspect of it that we don’t often talk about too. That’s why I’m glad that the focus of National Diabetes Week this year is on mental health…
Dr Ashley Ng 