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Better Together Guides

The conversations you wish someone had handed you.

Each Better Together Guide takes one hard part of life with diabetes and turns it into something a family can move through together: newsletters that name what is happening, interactives that make the invisible work visible, and scripts for the conversations that are hard to start. Begin free, then go deeper at your own pace.

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How it works

Start free. Go as deep as your family needs.

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Subscribe to the newsletter

Join free on beehiiv. Kitchen-table field notes on living with diabetes as a family land in your inbox, no pressure to read everything at once.

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

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Unlock a complete Better Together Guide: every newsletter, every interactive, and the conversation scripts that go with them.

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The Recovery Series: 16 free newsletters on healing, together.

Honest field notes on healing with Type 1, from surgery numbers to chair workouts to letting people help. Free when you subscribe, and the gentlest way to feel what a Better Together Guide is like before you commit to one.

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Five guides · one journey

Start where you are. Each guide stands on its own.

There is a natural arc from the day of diagnosis to a full, social life with diabetes, but you do not have to walk it in order. Pick the guide that matches the moment your family is in right now, and bring one more person along with you.

Guide 01 · Ready now

Surveillance to Support

Tracking as partnership, not policing. Turn fear and constant checking into trust and support, from day one. 10 newsletters and 4 interactives.

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Guide 02

Eating Together

Food and meals as shared decisions, not battles at the table. Tools that turn carb math and snack choices into something the whole family carries. 6 interactives.

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Guide 03

Navigating Transitions

Renegotiating support through life's changes: starting school, a new job, moving out, new relationships, becoming a parent. 10 newsletters and 4 interactives.

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Guide 04

The Uncertainty We All Carry

Sharing the emotional weight of not knowing: fear, hope, and how families carry it together instead of one person holding it alone. 4 interactives.

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Guide 05

Playing Together

Social inclusion, disclosure, allies, and an active life with diabetes. Interactives and games for being out in the world without leaving safety behind.

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Try the tools first

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In every guide

Not just reading. A kit your family can run with.

Newsletter issues

Honest, kitchen-table writing from 35+ years of lived Type 1 experience. Read in ten minutes, talk about it the same evening.

HTML interactives

Planners, explorers, and games that make the invisible work of diabetes something a whole family can see and share. No downloads.

Conversation scripts

The words for the talks that are hard to start, with a partner, a school nurse, a new boss, a kid, so nobody has to find them alone.

Downloads

Printable plans, checklists, and one-pagers you can stick on the fridge, hand to a teacher, or fold into a travel bag.

On the way: short videos

Brief walkthroughs of each interactive and a warm overview of each guide, so anyone in your circle can catch up fast.

People in your corner

A growing circle of families working the same moments. You are not the first to navigate this, and you do not have to do it alone.

Team Together · personal support

Some moments need a person, not just a page.

When a specific moment lands hard, the guides can come to life with a real person in your corner. Team Together is structured, one-to-one help built around the chapter your family is actually in, drawing on the same newsletters, tools, and scripts, but shaped to you.

Built around the moment you are in
Just diagnosed Starting school A new job Injury and recovery A new relationship Becoming a parent Planning a trip
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Start with a conversation

We begin by listening. What just changed, who is in your circle, and what would help most right now. No script, no pressure, just a warm place to name it.

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Shape the guide to you

We pull the newsletters, tools, and scripts that fit your moment, and adapt them to your family, your school, your workplace, your trip, so the support actually fits your life.

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Bring your people in

The whole point is one more person in your corner. We help you bring partners, parents, caregivers, and friends into the plan, so support keeps going after our work is done.

It starts with a friendly conversation, and we scale from there, from a single tough moment to ongoing support across a season of change. You set the pace, and your family always stays the hero of the story.

Explore Team Together → A friendly first conversation, no commitment.

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