not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened - Episode 41 with Nina Johnson

Welcome to Episode 41 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', our final for 2023!

This Episode is brought to you in support of diabetes awareness and care by the CDE Online Pharmacy (https://cdeonline.co.za/), the online store of choice for people living with diabetes.

If you're living with diabetes or a health professional that facilitates diabetes care, you're in the right place!

Join our journey, as we grow together in understanding, insight, and self-awareness to change lives for the better. Our deliberations are always honest, challenging and thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.

This week, we look back on our first season of podcasts and advocacy messages, and we invite the feedback of our listeners to help us shape the 2024 season. As a background to introducing our studio guest, Stan again reflects on the rise of novel medications like Ozempic which has diverted attention away from aspects of chronic care ‘beyond the prescription pad’.

In this vein, our studio guest this week is Nina Johnson, who currently practices as an accredited Body Stress Release Practitioner. Before this new career path Nina had more than three decades of high-level experience in Banking, Warehousing, Transport and IT, across communities with diverse environments, cultures and languages. Nina has also lived with type 1 diabetes for 23 years.

In a vibrant and passionate chat, Nina talks about

• Her experience as a Body Stress Release (BSR) Practitioner for the past three years
• The origins of this complementary health practice in South Africa, and how it engages the body’s innate capacity for self-healing
• what BSR can achieve with alleviating physical, emotional and mental stress and pain, and in promoting overall confidence and wellbeing
• The personal approach of BSR with clients and its therapeutic interface with chronic health conditions
• The physical nature of BSR centering on the spine, and the reading of the body feedback to the practitioner’s touch
• Her personal journey with type 1 diabetes, her extensive advocacy efforts and living with the condition in Kazakhstan and Qatar
• The importance of living a life of gratefulness and joy and in looking after all aspects of your being
• Her first experience of BSR as a client, deciding to do a BSR Course and what she learned
• The need for self-help work for stress overload
• The need for practitioner engagement and mindfulness in the consultation environment
• Celebrating what is right in the world to be able to cope with what is wrong in the world

We wish our listeners and our advocacy partners a blessed, healthy and restful holiday season!

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