Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Diabetes Is Different -- Coping with Feelings -- The Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Approach -- How This Book Came About and How to Use It -- Chapter 1 What Is It About Diabetes? -- Diabetes Is Hard -- Diabetes Comes with a Range of Emotions -- What Do You Feel? -- So How Do You Deal with These Emotions? -- Is There Another Way? -- Chapter 2 The Basics: Introducing Diabetes -- Goals of This Chapter -- Warning: Potentially Overwhelming Information Ahead -- What Is Diabetes? -- Which Type of Diabetes Do You Have? -- How Did You Get Diabetes? -- Glucose and Hemoglobin A1c: The Numbers Game -- Complicated Complications -- You Are In Charge! -- Retinopathy: The "Eyes" Have It -- Nephropathy: You Gotta Be Kiddin' Me with These Kidneys -- Neuropathy: This Is All Getting on My Nerves -- Cardiovascular Disease: Taking It All to Heart -- Sexual Functioning: This Is Getting a Little Personal -- Depression: When It All Gets You Down -- What Is the Effect of Good Diabetes Control? -- Knowledge Is Power, But We Need Something Else -- Chapter 3 Value Added -- Values as a Compass -- Getting Started -- Down to the Nuts and Bolts: Defining Your Values -- Living Your Values: Real-Life Goals -- Barriers, Barriers, Barriers -- For Your Fridge -- Chapter 4 What Have You Tried? -- Diabetes? Who Me? -- What Are the Costs? -- Common Ways of Avoiding Diabetes Thoughts and Feelings -- How Do You Cope with Having Diabetes? -- Person in the Hole -- But I Like My Strategies! -- Quicksand -- A Note of Caution -- Chapter 5 Who Are You? -- Conceptualized Self -- Noticing Self -- Chessboard Exercise -- Louis's Story -- What Are Your Pieces? -- A Safe Place to Stand -- Chapter 6 Willing to What? -- Defining Willingness -- Diabetes Computer -- I'm Having the Thought That … -- Meditation Exercise -- Finding Anxiety.

Chapter 7 Food, Glorious Food -- Diabetes Diet Basics -- Types of Diabetes Diets -- Weight for It -- Blood Sugar Levels and Diet -- Chapter 8 Exercise Your Rights -- Exercise and Diabetes -- Three Types of Exercise -- Barriers to Exercise -- Getting Started -- Learn About Your Body's Response -- Chapter 9 Talking Diabetes -- The Importance of Communication -- Styles and Strategies -- The Difference with Diabetes -- Effective Communication -- Talking About Feelings -- Taking Ownership of Your Feelings and Thoughts -- Getting Everyone Else On Board -- Relating This Back to Your Plan -- Remembering to Make Room for Others -- Effectively Resolving Conflict -- Educating Others -- Chapter 10 Medication Meditation -- Medication Considerations -- Types of Oral Diabetes Medications -- Insulin -- Barriers to Taking Diabetes Medications -- Chapter 11 Preventing, Detecting, and Treating Complications -- Using ACT -- Complication Prevention, Detection, and Treatment -- Chapter 12 Behavior Change -- Choice -- Reasons -- Undoing Cause-and-Effect Thinking -- Chessboard Revisited -- Monsters on the Bus -- Willingness as an Action -- Behavioral Momentum -- Chapter 13 Stand and Commit -- Making a Commitment -- Commitment Exercise -- Moving Forward from Here -- References.