January 1 - December 31, 2025, San Francisco, CA
10:00 am (Pacific Time)

We will announce the date of the support group once we have enough people interested. Please email JPliner@BreakthroughT1D.org if you'd like to join. This is a free event.

Living with T1D can bring up complex and difficult emotions. Join us for a therapist-led support group to help you feel less alone.

This support group is for Adults living with T1D who were diagnosed as an Adult. Facilitated by Jodie Stein, MFT,  it will focus on the emotional healing process though sharing, reflecting, and listening deeply without trying to fix.

Some common themes may include:

• Grieving your identity as a healthy person, your relationship to food or your body
• Dealing with thoughts about being at fault or medical humiliations
• Working with feelings of anger, low mood, sadness, depression or guilt
• Managing well-meaning but misattuned responses from friends and family
• Impact on your partner, your sex life, dating and socializing
• Navigating interpersonal dynamics at work
• Complex feelings around T1D support communities
• Tensions between your desire for care and your desire to be seen as normal
• Feeling gratitude for life or more present in the here and now

Jodie will guide you in how to share authentically and how to respond to members in a way that creates safety. You will feel heard and understood, less alone, and perhaps meet others to connect with outside of group.

Who is the group for?

This is not a group for parents of children who are newly diagnosed, adults who were diagnosed as children, T2D’s, or people who want to share their experience of how to manage this disease. This is not a group for solutions, advice giving, learning about devices, nutrition, research, new technology, insulin management or insurance coverage.

This group is a self-help space that’s designed for therapeutic benefit but is not a substitute for individual therapy.