MOTHER'S DAY SPECIAL!
No-Sugar Added Poetry is a collection of 39 diabetes poems written by members of TuDiabetes.org, a community of people touched by diabetes, compiled by the Diabetes Hands Foundation with a foreword by Dr. Bill Polonsky and an introduction by Lee Ann Thill.
Download a PDF of the first 9 pages in the book.
ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF THIS BOOK ARE USED TO FURTHER THE MISSION OF THE DIABETES HANDS FOUNDATION, A 501(C)(3) NONPROFIT THAT CONNECTS PEOPLE TOUCHED BY DIABETES AND RAISES DIABETES AWARENESS.
"No Sugar Added Poetry stirs those hidden emotions that people with diabetes have kept safely locked away for many years! It comes straight from the heart of those living with diabetes and speaks directly to the soul of those living with diabetes. The importance of the emotional health of people with diabetes is finally being recognized in a positive way. People with diabetes truly are a unique and talented group of people and this book proves it!”
- Brandy Barnes, MSW
Founder, Executive Director
www.diabetessisters.org
"This book shines a light on the full palette of the diabetes experience: scatterbrained feeling of a hypoglycemia, turbulent relationships with food, the fear of bearing a healthy baby, schisms with family and the support they share."
- David Edelman
President
www.DiabetesDaily.com
“I wouldn’t have wished for diabetes, yet my life has been enhanced by the diabetes community — it reaches out and wraps its arms around you. You will find a piece of yourself here, as I have, and let us not forget there is also pride in rising to the challenge of diabetes.”
- Riva Greenberg
Type 1 patient 38 years and counting
www.diabetesstories.com,
www.diabetesbydesign.com
“In remembering the great American poet Robert Frost, President Kennedy recalled that Frost wrote, ‘I have been one acquainted with the night,’ and that only through knowing the deepest darkness of midnight could Frost understand the triumph of the human spirit. In reading No-Sugar Added Poetry, we bring different perspectives, but we can all gain the same enlightenment – an appreciation of the challenge of diabetes and the enormity of the triumph in living well with it.”
- Jeff Hitchcock
President/Editor
www.childrenwithdiabetes.com
“These brave writers and their powerful words remind us why we’re committed to making managing diabetes easier. No-Sugar Added Poetry is required reading for ever member of the ACCU-CHEK marketing team and recommended to anyone hoping to peer in to the soul of diabetes.”
- Dan Kane
Vice President
Roche Diagnostics
“No Sugar Added Poetry is a must read for any caretaker, loved one, or professional who yearns to understand what it's like to live with diabetes. It’s as raw as it is insightful, and educational as it is compelling. As a reader you are urged to feel the emotions of these precious lives; but more importantly these incredible writers have supplied a window to their heart so we may only begin to scratch the surface in understanding their soul. I cried, I ached, I loved, I cherished, and most importantly: I learned. Thank you TuDiabetes.”
- DiabetesDad, Tom Karlya
Vice President, Diabetes Research Institute Foundation, Inc.
www.diabetesresearch.org
"We all deal with this disease in different ways, but through the power of poetry, we're able to share - and heal - in ways that can't be bottled. This book is proof that something truly beautiful can be born from adversity."
- Kerri Morrone Sparling
www.sixuntilme.com
“One does not have to be gifted or write with perfection in order to receive cathartic benefits. The gifts of writing? Perhaps no Pulitzer Prize, but the chance to live consciously, find release of otherwise difficult emotions, solve problematic situations, and experience pure lovely distraction. As a psychologist working with families touched by diabetes, I encourage my patients to use humor and the delights of writing to handle the diagnosis as well as dealing with the tension of everyday life with diabetes- the personal and relationship challenges. It is the effort, not the outcome that heals.
I celebrate this collection: it stimulates recognition of the universally painful feelings surrounding diabetes and presents a model for thinking about diabetes in a more healthy and effective way.”
- Dr. Wendy Satin Rapaport,
Psychologist
Diabetes Research Institute
"Nothing in this world is as soothing as a window into the psyche of others who share your struggles, that no one else can grasp. This book is chicken soup for your diabetes soul!"
- Amy Tenderich
www.diabetesmine.com
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