Kindle Edition Amazon TED for Diabetes Category:  Self-Help Publisher: Polaris Publishing ISBN-10:  0977144135 Type: Non-Fiction Pages: 201 Copyright: June 1, 2012 ISBN-13: 9780977144136 New book creates a positive approach to diabetes (or any health challenge), and improves relationships at work, home and in support of good health. Create a Positive Approach to Diabetes! Diabetes provides daily challenges for anyone who is dealing with this disease - whether an individual, a loved one or a friend. Told through the story of one person's journey toward optimal health, the authors walk you through a new way of understanding your relationship to diabetes, or any chronic illness. This positive approach to diabetes will help you embrace choices that will empower you to enjoy all of your relationships with family, friends and your healthcare professionals, and enhance your well-being. Excerpt The next two weeks, we all did well as a family and I did a great job with my diabetes management. The kids grew more comfortable with the changes as we learned to use the ways of thinking and relating to one another that I had gained from the class. We served as coaches for one another in a way that actually helped, rather than annoyed, each of us. My becoming more active, settling into a new way of eating, and tracking progress with my numbers were becoming routine – almost. I was sailing along until Saturday night when Lois took the kids to a movie. I’d had a long week at work and opted to stay home on my own to rest and reflect over the past week. Or at least that was what I intended to do. As I was rooting around through the kitchen drawers for a pen to write in my journal, I opened the snack drawer and found a half-eaten bag of potato chips.

Wayne Andersen, MD, author of Dr. A's Habits of Health
"This book should be in the hands of all who seek individual responsibility for their health."

Ann V. Deaton, PhD, PCC, Leadership Coach and Clinical Health Psychologist
"This book does an impressive job of offering a positive approach to managing not only diabetes, but any chronic medical challenge. Patients, their families, and their health care providers will all be grateful for this new perspective."