Deborah Greenwood Consulting

Deborah Greenwood Consulting Deborah Greenwood Consulting specializes in research, strategy development and consumer engagement focusing on diabetes digital and health

Dr. Greenwood, President of Deborah Greenwood Consulting, is a consultant and research scientist with 25 years of experience specializing in diabetes, patient engagement, digital health and social media. Deborah established and managed accreditation for the largest diabetes self-management education and support program in the US for 10 years. She is a past President of the American Association of Diabetes Educators.

Read Today's Fresh Views! A Year of Solution-Focused Self-Care: Taking our own advice
10/15/2025

Read Today's Fresh Views! A Year of Solution-Focused Self-Care: Taking our own advice

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. ~ Anne Lamott This Fall, we’ve decided to follow some of our own advice and take some time to renew, recharge and refresh. Like our quote, sometimes you just need to unplug! Recent life changes, including work and...

A Year of Solution-focused Self-care: Strategies to find balance and boost resilience
09/17/2025

A Year of Solution-focused Self-care: Strategies to find balance and boost resilience

Image courtesy of ChatGPT Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems. ― Gever Tulley In follow-on to last month’s blog on Managing When Life Gives You Lemons, today we’re sharing strategies to boost resilience and help bring balanc...

Read Today's Fresh Views! A Year of Solution-focused Self-care: Managing when life gives you lemons
08/20/2025

Read Today's Fresh Views! A Year of Solution-focused Self-care: Managing when life gives you lemons

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. – Proverb We’ve all heard the saying “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” (Or in Deb’s case with lemon trees in her backyard, that might be limoncello instead of lemonade!) Challenges, transitions, and circumstances in our personal lives t...

Read Today's Fresh Views! A Year of Solution-Focused Self-Care: Creating Calming Spaces         -care
07/16/2025

Read Today's Fresh Views! A Year of Solution-Focused Self-Care: Creating Calming Spaces -care

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. ~ Helen Keller Speaking (or rather writing) from experience, chronic stress can often feel inescapable. And chronic stress related to managing a chronic health condition like diabetes exacerbates things further. Ultimately chronic stress ca...

Read Today's Fresh Views! A Year of Solution-Focused Self-Care: Strategies to Put Mental Health First
06/18/2025

Read Today's Fresh Views! A Year of Solution-Focused Self-Care: Strategies to Put Mental Health First

Here we find ourselves in June, slipping out of May which was Mental Health Awareness Month. But mental health awareness isn’t just for May, it is an important topic all year-round! So much of one’s well-being is tied into mental health.  Today we’re sharing 6 tips and solution-focused strate...

Read Today's Fresh Views! A year of solution-focused self-care: Strategies for navigating tough times
05/21/2025

Read Today's Fresh Views! A year of solution-focused self-care: Strategies for navigating tough times

Life is not so much what you accomplish as what you overcome. ~ Robin Roberts Life is full of ups and downs…personal loss, professional setbacks,  turmoil in our greater world, health challenges…and life with diabetes brings additional ups and downs with regard to glucose fluctuations These tax...

Read Today's Fresh Views! A year of solution-focused self-care: Maintaining Boundaries
04/16/2025

Read Today's Fresh Views! A year of solution-focused self-care: Maintaining Boundaries

In our last blog we discussed the importance of setting boundaries when we are trying to move the locus of control from others to ourselves. As we shared, the “Let Them” theory by Mel Robbins, helps you break free from managing others’ expectations and reclaim your time, energy, and happiness....

Read Today's Fresh Views! A year of solution-focused self-care: Setting Boundaries
03/19/2025

Read Today's Fresh Views! A year of solution-focused self-care: Setting Boundaries

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. ~ Oprah Winfrey If you’ve listened to the Let Them Theory. podcast or read the new book, you might be as intrigued as we are with this mindset hack. Let Them Theory In Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins, several scien...

Read Today's Fresh Views! A year of solution-focused self-care: Strategies to manage times of uncertainty and anxiety   ...
02/19/2025

Read Today's Fresh Views! A year of solution-focused self-care: Strategies to manage times of uncertainty and anxiety

Calmness of the mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. ~ James Allen Welcome as we launch a new series “A year of solution-focused self-care”!  In each blog we’ll share strategies to help promote self-care. While today’s topic was originally slated later in the series, given the unc...

Read Today's Fresh Views! Making 2025 Meaningful
01/22/2025

Read Today's Fresh Views! Making 2025 Meaningful

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. – Ralph Waldo Emerson 2025…a new year with renewed focus for us here as our blog enters it’s 7th year! WHO ARE WE?  If you are new to our blog, we are solution-focused diabetes care and education speci...

Ready today's Fresh Views! Foster a happy, healthy life: Friends, love and laughter
12/18/2024

Ready today's Fresh Views! Foster a happy, healthy life: Friends, love and laughter

Our series “Foster a Happy, Healthy Life” began in July, and it seems fitting to bring this series and 2024 to a close with emphasis on the power of friendships, love and laughter. Throughout this series we have shared many simple, yet powerful, solution-focused tenets that we hope you can pass ...

Read Today's Fresh Views! Foster a happy, healthy life: Decompression 2.0
11/20/2024

Read Today's Fresh Views! Foster a happy, healthy life: Decompression 2.0

Living with diabetes can often feel overwhelming, adding layers of stress to everyday life. Balancing health management with the demands of work, family, and personal goals can be challenging. Chronic stress can feel inescapable. It can affect our minds, bodies, performance, and relationships. Chron...

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