At the time of my diagnosis I was prescribed metformin and over the next 3 years I became miserable. Tired in the afternoon, weight gain, the GI mess was unbearable, I couldn’t even eat fruit anymore. So, I just stopped taking it. Of course, this created unmanaged blood sugars and high A1C. High like 10.5!

So back to the Doctor. Given a new pill. It worked great…for a while, higher dose recommended of course. Insulin was suggested. I politely declined. For months and months I was obsessed with reading everything about how T2D works in the body, every trick, supplement, webinar, and then crying every morning when it was still 200.

Then one day when I was standing in my room staring at more supplements, when I had my moment of truth! I literally said out loud, “What the hell am I doing?!” Lol I had been giving all my power and focus to diabetes, obsessing about numbers, fearing foods, focusing on how I was failing to get this reversed, chasing external answers.

"Good grief…what you focus on you get more of, I teach this everyday." Something I knew and used in the rest of my life, but not this. Why? What was I afraid of? I was feeding the very thing I was trying to heal.

That day I did a reset. Followed by the reframing of how I think about my Type 2 Diabetes diagnosis; I listened to my body. I then shifted my coaching process to this one topic, tools and answers flowed to me. I was determined to share this process to help others.

My A1C went from 10.5 to 7.2 in 10 weeks! Then down to 6.2 the following 8 weeks! Holding steady there, with no medication! I feel amazing, and yep, I even lost some weight.

The gift of my journey is why I wrote the book "Type 2 Diabetes is a Rogue...with a gift.©" It is why I shifted my coaching program to work solely with those discouraged with their diabetes. It’s why they call me the Gift Giver, I’ll share with you the gift that hundreds of others have received!