A complicated relationship: Diabetes, food & body image by MFT Julissa Rolon.
A talk for Connected in motion, Virtual Slipstream 2020 program.

Living with type 1 diabetes is not easy, talking about some of the difficult aspects of maintaining a healthy outlook towards food.

Julissa is a psychologist, with a master's in family therapy. She is a diabetes educator and has an educational program in Spanish and that has given her the expertise in videoblogging, community building and mental health. Julissa lives with T1D and her relationship with it has been a curious one from the start. Most of her diabetes education came from social media: She didn’t know anyone with type 1 diabetes in real life, so the online community became her only source of all kinds of knowledge, from specific and useful information to really funny memes. But everything was mostly in english. Julissa didn’t know any blogs in Spanish. When she began to enter the community, she was very unpleasantly surprised by all the ignorance there is on this subject. This led Julissa to create her own blog "Diabetes tipo Ju". Julissa's initiative: Diabetes tipo Ju, is such an amazing and generous peer support and educational network for all families living with diabetes.