Dear friends,
Living with type one diabetes means learning to manage a lot—insulin, blood sugar, food, exercise, sleep, stress. It can feel like walking a tightrope: one misstep and you fall. For a long time, I lived that way—white-knuckling my routine, obsessing over perfection, trying to control every variable. I thought control meant caring. But I’ve learned something powerful: control and care aren’t the same.
In therapy, I was introduced to a new analogy. Health isn’t a tightrope. It’s more like the Stone Arch Bridge.
Each stone in that bridge represents a part of your self-care: insulin, sleep, nutrition, movement, mindset, rest, nervous system chiropractic care, and support. And even if you wobble a little—have a rough blood sugar day or feel off—it doesn’t mean you’re falling into the river. There’s structure. There’s room. There’s grace.
Letting go of control doesn’t mean you don’t care—it means you trust the bridge. You trust your body. You trust your capacity to adapt, to bounce back, to keep walking forward.
One of the most liberating shifts I’ve made is choosing not to make my diagnosis my identity. I live with type one diabetes, but it’s not who I am. I think of it more like a sidecar on a motorcycle—it’s riding next to me, sure, but it’s not steering. And God willing, that sidecar could detach at any moment. I don’t need to merge my whole being with it to manage it well.
Chiropractic care, especially the nervous system-focused kind I now practice and love, helped me truly feel this. It helped regulate the parts of my nervous system that were always on high alert—my stress response, my adrenal function, the deep subconscious layer of “am I safe?” that impacts blood sugar more than I ever realized. It gave my body space to breathe again. To heal.
Ironically, that’s when I began to feel more “in control” than ever—not because I was gripping tighter, but because I was finally working with my body instead of fighting it.
If you’re living with a chronic condition—whether it’s diabetes, autoimmune issues, or even long-standing stress—I want you to know this:
You don’t have to walk a tightrope.
You can walk a bridge.
And you don’t have to do it alone.
With warmth and understanding,
Dr. Lucy
Doctor of Chiropractic
P.S. If you’re curious about how nervous system chiropractic might support your own health journey, feel free to reply to this email or book a chat. I’m always here to listen.