DiabetesSangha

Diabetes Sangha is a mindfulness community for people living with Type 1 diabetes.

We offer live weekly meditations, workshops, and retreats created by and for T1Ds. A space to pause, reflect, and practice alongside people who truly understand.

06/13/2026

This Pride Month, DiabetesSangha co-founder Peter Friedfeld reflects on his journey of living with Type 1 diabetes and the unexpected parallels he discovered with coming out as a young gay man.

When Peter was diagnosed with T1D decades after coming out, he found himself facing familiar feelings of fear, isolation, and uncertainty. What helped him navigate both experiences was discovering the power of community, connection, and self-acceptance.

Mindfulness teaches us to meet ourselves as we are—not as we think we should be. Often, healing begins when we stop hiding and allow ourselves to be seen.

🌈 We hope Peter’s story offers support, reflection, and a reminder that none of us have to do this alone.

Read the full story at the link in our bio. 💙

Join us for a special Pride Meditation on June 28 at 7:30 PM ET as we celebrate self-acceptance, compassion, and community. 🌈

06/10/2026

This month, we’ll be sharing a weekly series exploring mindfulness and its relationship to life with Type 1 diabetes.

Many challenges of T1D fall into familiar categories: discomfort and uncertainty, constant change, and circumstances beyond our control. Mindfulness does not eliminate these challenges, but it can help us meet them with greater awareness, clarity, and self-compassion.

One of the central insights of mindfulness practice is that people living with T1D may already be cultivating these skills every day. Each time we check in with our bodies, respond thoughtfully to a glucose reading, adapt to changing circumstances, or begin again after a difficult moment, we are practicing.

📘 Comment BREATHE to receive our free Mindfulness & Diabetes e-book directly to your inbox.

06/05/2026

✨ This month, we’ll be sharing a weekly series exploring mindfulness and its relationship to life with Type 1 diabetes.

Many challenges of T1D fall into familiar categories: discomfort and uncertainty, constant change, and circumstances beyond our control. Mindfulness does not eliminate these challenges, but it can help us meet them with greater awareness, clarity, and self-compassion.

One of the central insights of mindfulness practice is that people living with T1D may already be cultivating these skills every day. Each time we check in with our bodies, respond thoughtfully to a glucose reading, adapt to changing circumstances, or begin again after a difficult moment, we are practicing.

📘 Comment BREATHE to receive our free Mindfulness & Diabetes e-book directly to your inbox!

05/28/2026

Living with Type 1 diabetes asks a lot of us. The constant decisions, emotional highs and lows, stress, burnout, and pressure to always stay on top of everything can feel exhausting.

That’s why we designed a free and accessible mindfulness toolkit created specifically for the T1D community - offering support for the emotional side of living with diabetes.

Inside the guide, we explore tools that may support: • reduced diabetes distress • emotional regulation • better sleep and recovery • greater body awareness • self-compassion and community connection

Mindfulness doesn’t change diabetes. It can change your relationship to it.

Comment BREATHE and we’ll send you the guide! 📬

05/26/2026

Join Diabetes Sangha facilitator Peter Friedfeld for the final Weekly Dose of this month’s Mindful Movement series with — a gentle reflection on how small mindful shifts can begin to change our relationship with diabetes and with ourselves.

This week’s Weekly Dose is a reminder that small moments matter.

Living with diabetes asks so much of us. The constant decisions, adjustments, reactions, and interruptions can make self-care feel like just one more task on the list.
In this practice, Peter invites us to slow down and remember that mindfulness doesn’t have to look dramatic or perfect. Sometimes it’s as simple as taking one deeper breath. Softening the shoulders. Pausing before reacting. Offering ourselves a little kindness instead of criticism.

These small moments of awareness and care can create their own chain reaction.
One breath can become a calmer moment. A calmer moment can become a different interaction. A different interaction can become a different kind of day.

Thank you for being part of this month’s Mindful Movement series with us. We hope these practices continue to support you long after the series ends.

Watch the full practice on YouTube and join the campaign through the link in our bio.

Comment “BREATHE” to have the full meditation sent right to your inbox.

05/22/2026

Living with diabetes can feel mentally and emotionally exhausting sometimes.

Mindfulness doesn’t remove diabetes — but it can help us relate differently to stress, burnout, overwhelm, and constant mental load.

We created a free mindfulness + diabetes ebook for our community 💙

Comment CALM and we’ll send it to you.

05/21/2026

✨ Meet Our Facilitators ✨

Next up: Brooke Cassoff

Brooke has been living with Type 1 diabetes since she was 15 years old and practicing mindfulness for nearly just as long. Shortly after her diagnosis, her older sister mailed her a yoga mat and DVD — the beginning of a journey that would deeply transform her relationship with herself and diabetes over the next 20+ years.

Through mindfulness, Brooke began noticing how much of her day was shaped by fear, judgment, and stress around blood sugars. Over time, her practice helped create more spaciousness around those thoughts and reactions — and eventually led her toward compassion-based practices rooted in openness, care, and self-kindness.

For Brooke, mindfulness isn’t about perfection. It’s about learning how to meet each moment with awareness and compassion, especially during the difficult ones.

She often speaks about the power of practicing in community — witnessing the care, support, honesty, and shared understanding that naturally emerges within Diabetes Sangha.

We’re so grateful to have Brooke as part of this space and hope you’ll join us for a future session soon 🤍

05/18/2026

This week’s Weekly Dose is an invitation to meet yourself with care.

Join Diabetes Sangha facilitator Brooke Cassoff for a gentle guided practice designed for those moments when things feel difficult, uncomfortable, or simply different from how you wish they would be.

Living with diabetes can bring moments of frustration, unpredictability, and self-judgment—especially when blood sugars or daily plans don’t go as hoped. In this practice, Brooke invites us to pause, notice what we’re carrying, and respond with warmth instead of criticism.
Through breath, awareness, and gentle self-compassion, this meditation offers a space to soften around what’s hard and reconnect with the body with curiosity and friendliness.

You don’t need to fix anything in this moment. You don’t need to force yourself to feel differently.
You’re invited to simply meet yourself exactly where you are.

As part of ’s Your Type of Moves campaign, we’ll be sharing a new Weekly Dose every Monday throughout May.

Follow along each week and watch the full practice on YouTube.
 Join the campaign through the link in our bio!

Comment “BREATHE” to have the full meditation sent right to your inbox.

05/17/2026

Type 1 diabetes asks for your attention—every single day.
What if that same attention could become a path toward greater ease, awareness, and a different relationship with this life?

Mindfulness doesn’t make diabetes disappear.
It doesn’t promise perfect numbers or fewer decisions.
But it can help us meet each moment with more steadiness, compassion, and less reactivity.

Over four weeks, we’ll explore simple but powerful mindfulness practices for living with T1D:
🫁 Breath & presence
🧍 Body awareness
💭 Working with thoughts & emotions
❤️ Compassion, equanimity & integration

If you’ve been curious about mindfulness—but wanted something grounded, practical, and created specifically for life with Type 1—this is for you.
Small group. Live online. All experience levels welcome.
✨ Link in bio to join.

Address

Chicago Heights, IL
97060

Telephone

+16313291955

Website

http://www.diabetessangha.com/, https://www.youtube.com/@diabetessangha

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