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Better Together · Diabetes

Diabetes is never a solo condition. We make it a family conversation.

From 35+ years of lived Type 1 experience: guides, interactives, apps, and travel that bring one more person into your support circle, so the people around you know what to do, and you feel less alone in managing it.

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Three doors in

Nobody should do this alone. I tried it for twenty years.

I'm Trapper. Thirty five years with type 1, and for the first twenty I handled all of it myself and called that strength. It wasn't. It exhausted me and it left the people who loved me standing in the hallway with nothing to do. Better Together Diabetes is everything I built after I figured that out: newsletters that name what your family is actually doing, tools that start the conversation sideways instead of head on, calm screens that turn your own Dexcom readings into something the whole house can see, and the BTD Community, where families trade real wins and I check in about once a week. Start anywhere. Most people start free.

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The newsletter, thirty four tools to try, and the Aquarium on your family's own Dexcom at no cost.

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PREFERRED PATH
BTD Community

Nine channels of families like ours, guide cycles worked as a group, and every world we have built so far on your own Dexcom.

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What is in the room is a living catalog: worlds and guide cycles rotate, some step out for a while, and new ones arrive while you are here.

Guides and Travel

Take home a full guide, or plan the trip your family keeps postponing, with everything you need in one link.

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Times of change

Normal with diabetes is already work. Then something changes.

A diagnosis, a first day of school, a new job, a new relationship, an injury: every one of them lands on top of a routine your family is already working hard to keep. That is the part nobody warns you about. Each moment below is one we have made easier, with the guide, the newsletter, and the tools that fit it. Every path also opens a Team Together option when you want a person, not just a page.

A new diagnosis

Just diagnosed

Start with Surveillance to Support: how to turn fear and tracking into partnership, from day one.

Where to begin →
Back to school

Starting school

Navigating Transitions: who needs to know, what to say, and how support travels with you to a new place.

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A new role

New job, starting work

Workplace disclosure, rights, and routines: deciding what to share and building a new daily rhythm.

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Surgery, injury, healing

Just got hurt or injured again

Diabetes Fit and Injury Recovery: 16 honest field notes on healing with T1D, from surgery numbers to chair workouts.

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Partners and parenting

New relationship or becoming a parent

Letting someone in, sharing the weight, and the uncertainty we all carry, together.

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On the move

Traveling with diabetes

Vacation guides and trip stories that make going somewhere new feel possible, not risky.

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What we make

Four ways to do diabetes together.

Understand together

Five Better Together Guides that turn hard moments into family conversations, with scripts you can actually use.

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Play together

Interactives and games that make the invisible work of diabetes something a whole family can see and share.

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Live together

The BTD Calm Companion Collection: apps that let the people who love you glance over and simply know how you're doing.

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Go further together

Travel and vacation guides, coaching, and concierge support for the trips and chapters that feel out of reach.

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The mosaic idea

Every family is a mosaic: many people, each holding a piece, fitting together to carry something that was never meant to be carried alone. That is what better together means.

Where do I even start

You should not have to hunt for the thing that helps.

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Better Together Guides
Five guides · one for each hard part

For the conversation your family keeps circling.

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Apps & Companions
Live now

A calm companion your family can read at a glance

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Travel
Vacation guides

Go somewhere new without leaving safety behind

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Newsletters
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Diabetes Fit and Injury Recovery, in your inbox

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Better Together Guides

You know what you want to say. It comes out as a question about numbers.

Five guides, one for each hard part: a new diagnosis, eating together, the transitions, the uncertainty we all carry, and playing again. Each one turns that part into newsletters, tools, and the actual words. Pick the one that matches this month and see what is inside.

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Start with Diabetes Fit and Injury Recovery

Sixteen honest newsletters on healing with Type 1, free when you subscribe. The clearest way to feel how BTD works before you go deeper.

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The full set

Five guides for the whole journey

From Surveillance to Support through Eating Together, Transitions, Uncertainty, and Playing Together, each guide is a build-it-with-your-family kit.

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Why this exists

Thirty-five years in, here is what I know about letting people help.

I have lived with Type 1 diabetes for more than 35 years. I know what it is like when the people around you do not know what to do, and how different things feel when they do. Better Together Diabetes exists to bring one more person into your circle, with words, tools, and a little play, so it stops feeling like a secret you carry alone.

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