How To Stay Calm and Improve Your Mental Health Living with Diabetes - with Alexandra Park | EP 123
Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience
Mastering Diabetes
4.6 • 656 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Actor Alexandra Park shares her story of coping with the mental health challenges that come with a diabetes diagnosis.
When Alexandra was first diagnosed with diabetes, she was also learning how to navigate Hollywood, and the pressure that comes with both. She truthfully shares her experience today of how she overcame the emotional struggles associated with TP1 Diabetes, and how to support a loved one struggling with this as well.
Be sure to grab a copy of our guest’s brand new book:
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Alexandra Park is an Australian actor, producer and writer. Her credits include the critically-acclaimed feature film, Ben is Back, directed by Peter Hedges, a leading role in Lionsgate’s hit TV series, The Royals, and the independent TV series Everyone is Doing Great, which was produced by Park and distributed worldwide. Balancing the ongoing demands of her career, while simultaneously juggling the ever-changing circumstances of type 1 diabetes, Sugar High is Alexandra’s memoir and literary debut. Park currently resides in Los Angeles with her fiancé and a rambunctious miniature Australian shepherd, Billie.
https://www.hulu.com/series/everyone-is-doing-great-767db83a-268b-499c-8a1a-3282f7df91a1
https://www.amazon.com/The-Royals-Season-1/dp/B00UJ5MRWK
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| 0:00.0 | The emotional hurdles and the mental health aspect of type 1 diabetes was something that I don't |
| 0:08.2 | think is really talked about enough. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to the mastering diabetes audio experience, where we show you how to sit in the driver's |
| 0:16.7 | seat of your diabetes health for the rest of your life. |
| 0:19.9 | We'll teach you how to reverse insulin |
| 0:21.3 | resistance, achieve your ideal body weight, gain energy, and get your best A1C following almost |
| 0:27.0 | 100 years of evidence-based research. Our program teaches you how to reverse pre-diabetes, |
| 0:33.6 | type 2 diabetes, and gestational diabetes, and how to simplify your life with type 1 diabetes, |
| 0:39.3 | type 1.5 diabetes, and insulin dependent type 2 diabetes by maximizing your insulin sensitivity |
| 0:46.3 | using your food as medicine. |
| 0:48.3 | We're on a bold mission to reverse insulin resistance in 1 million people. We're glad to have you joining us. Welcome to the mastering |
| 0:55.8 | diabetes audio experience. My name is Robbie Barbaro and I'm one of the co-founders here and I'm just |
| 1:01.9 | super excited about today's show. We are talking to a super cool actor who is doing big things in the |
| 1:09.1 | world and she happens to be living with type one diabetes |
| 1:12.3 | as well. She has a brand new book that has just released. It's titled Sugar High, the unexpected |
| 1:18.4 | journey of an inexperienced type one diabetic. So I'm reading this book right now and we talk |
| 1:25.1 | about it during the show, course but i cannot recommend it |
| 1:28.0 | enough it is so um it's lighthearted it's it's fun like her writing style you just feel like you're |
| 1:35.1 | there and you're going through this journey with her and uh i'm just really loving it so really really |
| 1:40.6 | happy to be able to bring her to you guys today. And as you can see, and maybe even |
| 1:45.8 | here with the audio, I'm not in our new fancy studio. So we're doing our best to record super high |
| 1:52.4 | quality shows for you all. But sometimes we'll have to squeeze in a few shows here or there while |
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