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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Ep. 455: Elizabeth Talks About Her Experience with Diabetes

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In honor of National Diabetes Awareness Month, Elizabeth talks about living with type 1 diabetes: her diagnosis, how she manages day-to-day, pregnancy, changes in technology, how family and friends can help, and more. Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Follow on social media: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft on Instagram @GretchenRubin on TikTok and YouTube Get the podcast show notes by email every week: happiercast.com/shownotes Get the resources and all links related to this episode here: http://happiercast.com/455 Get Gretchen Rubin’s newest New York Times bestselling book Life in Five Senses to see how she discovered a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, luck, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. Now availablewherever books are sold. Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app.  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What do I say? What do I say? What do I say? In the McMillan online community, we know what it's like to have cancer, because we have it too.

0:16.6

So whatever you're thinking, whatever you're feeling, whatever you need to ask about cancer, whatever the time of day or night,

0:22.0

we'll do whatever it takes to help you. To join us,

0:26.6

search McMillan online community.

0:30.0

Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we explore strategies and ideas for how to make

0:37.5

our lives happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative.

0:41.1

This week in honor of National Diabetes Awareness Month

0:44.2

we're gonna shake things up a bit and spend the entire episode with Elizabeth

0:48.5

talking about her diabetes. I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer who studies happiness, good habits, the five senses, and human nature.

1:08.0

I'm in a little cobbled together home office.

1:11.0

I'm in a walk-in closet with a lot of pillows and joining me today

1:14.6

from Los Angeles is my sister Elizabeth Kraft. That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV

1:19.3

writer and producer living in LA and yes Grutch a type 1 diabetic.

1:24.0

Yes, we are going to go in deep.

1:27.0

Before we launch in, we would love your suggestion for an upcoming episode of more happier that we're going to do that is going to be like

1:33.8

the Clear The Decks episode that we did a while back, which is just a bunch of one minute

1:39.3

tasks for some instant gratification.

1:42.2

And this is going to be called deck the halls because

1:44.4

it's going to be about getting ready for the holidays so send in your ideas about

1:49.0

those quick to-do's that we can cross up our list as we get ready to enter the holiday season.

1:54.3

Yes, and we also have our annual gift suggestion list coming up.

1:59.5

So send in ideas for gift suggestions something that you absolutely love that you think is a great gift.

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