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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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Start where you are

What just changed?

Diabetes shows up differently at every turn. Pick the moment you're in and we'll point you to the right guide, newsletter, and tools. 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.

Plan the conversation →
A new role

New job, starting work

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

Get the planner →
Surgery, injury, healing

Just got hurt or injured again

The Recovery Series: 16 honest field notes on healing with T1D, from surgery numbers to chair workouts.

Read the series →
Partners and parenting

New relationship or becoming a parent

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

Find the words →
On the move

Traveling with diabetes

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

See travel guides →
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.

See the guides →

Play together

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

Try the interactives →

Live together

Apps and glucose companions that let the people who love you glance over and simply know how you're doing.

Meet the companions →

Go further together

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

Plan the trip →
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.

Everything in one place

Your front door to all of it.

Browse the interactives →
Better Together Guides
Five guides · newsletters + tools

Better Together Guides: the conversations that change everything

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Apps & Companions
Live now

Glucose companions your family can read at a glance

Meet the companions →
Travel
Vacation guides

Go somewhere new without leaving safety behind

See travel guides →
Newsletters
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The Recovery Series and more, in your inbox

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Better Together Guides

The conversation you wish someone had handed you.

Each Better Together Guide takes one hard part of life with diabetes, from a new diagnosis to eating together to the uncertainty we all carry, and turns it into a kit of newsletters, interactives, and scripts you can move through with the people in your corner. Start free, then go deeper at your own pace.

Free to read

Start with the Recovery Series

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.

Meet Trapper →
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