You want to understand the steps you can take to tackle the worries and challenges that diabetes hands you…

You’d like to become an even sturdier type 1 parent, with a set of tools to address whatever emotional hurdles diabetes hands you…

You want to keep your focus on your relationship with your child and have diabetes ride sidecar… 

Introducing

Creating

Change

10 weeks of personalized support with robust tools to help you create the change you want to see in your relationship to diabetes.

Do some of these statements fit? 

You’re struggling, feeling like: 

  • I’m more flexible than ever with diabetes, but even so, I’m still feeling stressed and alone with it

  • My type 1 kid is ready to take the next step towards independence….but I’m holding on and feeling afraid to let them go

  • I’ve identified what stresses me out the most when it comes to T1D, but I can’t shake the stress

  • Diabetes is still too much the centerpiece of how I relate to my child; I want more than that with them.

  • Now that I’m so good at managing numbers, I’m finding that I’m having more difficulty letting other people help me so the burden feels even heavier

To get to less stress with diabetes — especially as your child grows and the issues change — you need a simple set of steps that you can repeat over and over again.

  • [Creating Change] was amazing. JoAnne helped me break an issue down into little parts and really understand it from different perspectives. That changed me: I’m not feeling as responsible for my daughter’s illness. And that’s helping my daughter and me have a relationship that’s separate from diabetes.

    — Tracy S (Camus, Washington)

  • I feel like there are so many changes I got out of Creating Change. I learned about what stresses me out about diabetes and investigated how I can change that. And that decreased stress trickled into other aspects, not just diabetes.. It not only allowed me to be more comfortable, but allows my T1D son more independence. And then it has trickled down into the care of my other kids. The course gave me confidence to keep taking the little baby steps that I wasn’t even taking.

    — Rebecca G (Washington DC)

Imagine if you could…

  • feel empowered and prepared for whatever diabetes hands you next

  • engage in a process that would help you challenge your ideas about diabetes

  • have a repeatable series of steps to move through to get to diabetes calm, time and time again

  • make small changes that make a big difference in how you think about, monitor and communicate about diabetes

Hi, I'm JoAnne

First and foremost, I’m a mom to T1D kids, just like you.  In fact, two of my three kids have type 1.  

I’m also a therapist and experienced diabetes coach.  When diabetes came to our family,  I took my experience as a therapist and applied it to working with parents with type 1 kids. My passion is helping you get to diabetes calm. 

Are you ready for a change?

What’s included with Creating Change:

  • A robust set of tools to help you tackle your type 1 challenges. This toolbox is key to helping to address whatever diabetes is handing you right now — and in the future.  As you work through these tools, you’ll get personalized support from me, so you’ll be able to reuse this process again and again as diabetes morphs and changes

  • Weekly 1:1 asynchronous coaching with JoAnne. Get specific tailored answers to the parenting challenges you’re facing with T1D right now.  You never have to sit with “What do I do next?” or “How would I make this better?” during this program.  I encourage you to post your questions to our private Facebook group. 

  • Eight 60-minute small-group calls over zoom. In these meetings, we’ll dive deep into the course material, get spotlight coaching, and learn what’s working for the other committed T1D parents in your cohort

  • Community access to your cohort. You’ll be part of a private Facebook group where you can collaborate with and interact with your fellow T1D parents.  This is your wolf pack — other parents who are as committed as you are to getting to diabetes calm faster.  Only the participants of your small group will be included.

What happens in Creating Change week-by-week?

Creating Change is a 10-week small-group experience.  We will meet 8 times, for an hour each meeting and you will have access to the group and asynchronous diabetes and parent coaching from me for the full 10 weeks of the course.  The meetings aren’t designed to give you more diabetes management information.  Instead, they will include a robust set of tools that will help you feel more in control of type 1.

  • You’ll get online and introduce yourself to the group to start connecting with other parents who are living the same T1D challenges that you face. Before we meet, you’ll complete a little structured pre-work to get prepared for the course. Even though we haven’t met yet, you can start asking me coaching questions to address questions you have about parenting diabetes.

  • This module is an opportunity for you to explore where you are with diabetes right now. Most of the exercises will look familiar to you from either After Diagnosis or Put Diabetes in Its Place — and it will be important for you to dive into the feelings that are currently coming up for you around type 1, as well as the ways you can imagine being flexible in your management – so you can move past that stuck spot. This exploration will be the groundwork for all the material going forward in the course.

  • Here you’re starting the work of setting goals about the kind of changes you’d like to see in the ways you connect to diabetes. Once you’ve done that, you’ll move through a number of exercises that will help you explore what gets in the way of you implementing those changes — and what your good reasons are for staying with what you know and are comfortable with when it comes to management.

  • This is a chance for you to make a real-world test — with my support and the support of the group — to implement a real-life change in the way you relate to diabetes. What you work on is up to you: You might be tackling talking to other parents about what your experience is as a T1D parent, or thinking about how to facilitate a sleepover, or asking for help in a different way from your partner or school team. Whatever you choose to take on, you’ll have my tailored support to think through each step.

  • We will check in about personal goals you’ve set and diabetes dilemmas you’re facing right now and see how you’re doing implementing the parenting tools you’ve already learned. This is an opportunity to help you stay on track with creating the changes you want to see, one small step at a time. This module also includes a Parent Panel, with three experienced T1D parents sharing their successes and setbacks in raising their type 1 kids.

  • We’ll take stock of the changes you’ve been able to implement, using some time-tested tools to help you really sink in to your success. This is an opportunity to acknowledge your successes so you can continue to build on them.

  • While we’re not meeting live for this final week, you’ll have a last chance to connect with other members of the group and ask any final coaching questions of me through our private Facebook group. While you’ll get lifetime access to the toolbox from Creating Change, the private group will close at the end of the course.

How We’ll Do It

After you register...

  1. You’ll get access to course material a week before our first meeting.

  2. You’ll do some short pre-work before our first meeting.

  3. We’ll meet for one-hour calls in a small group over Zoom.

  4. You’ll do work between meetings. Work includes things like videos, thought exercises, self-reflection exercises, and real-world trials.  While it’s helpful to do the work in the week it’s assigned so you can stay in sync with others in your cohort, the work is essentially self-paced.  You should be able to do it in about an hour per week. 

  5. Between sessions, you can submit questions to get answers and support, either about the material from the group or about emotional challenges you’re facing with diabetes right now.

  6. You’ll have access to the people in your small group through a private network for the duration of the course.

  7. You keep all of the curriculum forever.   

The cost of the entire program, including lifetime access to the lessons and resources is $1000.

 Let me answer some questions you might have

  • You’ve basically got me on retainer as you diabetes parenting coach for the entire program! I’m available in several ways throughout the course to answer your questions. I respond to posts in the private Facebook group a few times a week. And because Creating Change is a small-group experience, you’ll be able to ask questions and get feedback and support during our group meetings.

  • You’ll be expected to:

    • Do the work for each lesson. It shouldn’t take you more than an hour a week

    • Show up for the weekly zoom calls

    • Be present to participate during the time we spend together

    • Be coachable: willing to take direction and try new things

    • Be supportive and respectful of your fellow T1D parents

  • There are no refunds. Because this is a live group program with a limited number of seats, we don’t offer refunds. If you have questions about whether the group is right for you before you register, reach out to JoAnne at joanne@diabetessweettalk.com prior to purchasing.

    Get on the waitlist to be notified when registration opens!

Is Creating Change for me?

It’s for you if…

  • You took After Diagnosis or Put Diabetes in Its Place and you want more

  • You’re ready to take small steps for big gains 

  • You’re tired of feeling like you’re on a diabetes rollercoaster

  • You recognize that your struggles with diabetes generally arise from your fears about diabetes

  • You’re open to exploring new ways of thinking about how to relate to diabetes

It’s not for you if…

  • You want more information and data about how to manage the numbers of diabetes.  This course offers a different perspective in your relationship to diabetes, rather than more of the management skills that you can get from your doctor or endocrinologist.

  • You’re not ready to share in a group about how hard diabetes is for you.

  • You are looking for private coaching.  (All coaching and Q&A happen in a group)