iabetes management is not just a bunch of tasks involving meal
plans, blood glucose checks, exercise, and medicines; it is also a
lifelong process of learning and self-reflection. Confronting our
deepest and often false beliefs about ourselves and our diabetes, and
learning to change fear-based beliefs to form a more positive outlook
can dramatically improve motivation to perform self-care.
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Susan Shaw
Diabetes Self-Management, Fall 2006
Diabetes is well-known as the most difficult chronic medical condition to manage, requiring intense effort on the part of the
patient on a daily and even hourly basis.  Emotional issues that are unresolved can present barriers to effective diabetes self-
care.  Hypnotherapy for people with diabetes can include the following:

  • Uncovering and resolving grief, anger, sadness and fear post-diagnosis
  • Motivation to perform self-care
  • Motivation to exercise, perform blood testing, etc.
  • The experience of "acceptance" --- how would it feel and what would your daily life be like if and when you have complete
    acceptance of diabetes
  • Fear of injections
  • Fear of insulin reactions
  • Desensitization of carbohydrate cravings
  • Experiencing yourself as "healed," and whole, despite diabetes
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