World Diabetes Day is About Visibility

November 14, 2018 Today is World Diabetes Day. It’s a day intended to promote awareness and education about diabetes, especially type 1 diabetes. I have been a type 1 diabetic for twenty-three years. You can read more about my experiences in these posts: 25 Truth Bombs to Make You … Continue reading →

What is Type 1 Diabetes and Why You Should Care

Even if you haven't read any of my other articles about this disease, you've probably heard about diabetes. Something about sugar, right? It's more common in fat people. Someone's friend's grandma had it and needed a foot amputated, maybe. Another person probably went blind from it. … Continue reading →

Why Victim Blaming Needs to Stop Being a Thing

Hi. Hopefully, you clicked on this story because you too are slightly outraged that people still exist who think that people actually choose to be mentally ill. Or maybe you clicked thinking that you want to prove me wrong. That those of us with mental problems do, in fact, choose … Continue reading →

Anxiety Pocket eWorkbook Review

I've mentioned in several posts, like this one, that I have anxiety. So when I found out that Heather LeGuilloux, a therapist and mental health blogger, had resources for anxiety - specifically her Anxiety Pocket eWorkbook? I jumped all over that. Full disclosure that Inspired Forward is an … Continue reading →

How I Discovered That I Have Anxiety

I was one of those people who thought I would never have any kind of mental health problems. When I was a kid, I thought I was the most normal person in the room - minus, of course, my diabetes. My sister and I, as well as our classmates in school, were told about the "mentally ill" as if they … Continue reading →