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 @AFreshPOVforYou 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 specialists. We are passionate about doing diabetes care and education differently. Too much of life is spent focusing on problems. Instead, we believe in turning attention to possibilities, opportunities, and a fresh vision for the future. We see the benefit in stepping alongside our patients/clients as “think partners” to focus on what’s important to them, what’s already going well, and build upon that to reach their goals so that they may live life to the fullest. We invite you to join us in doing the same if this is a new paradigm for you. We are advocates for person-centered, strengths-based language, and believe that self-compassion is essential when living with a chronic condition.
If this is a new way of thinking for you, you’ll want to check out our past blog series of key words that inspire solution-focused thinking. These words, their meanings, and impact are so powerful that we devoted a blog to each word. The series starts here.
If you work with primary care, we wrote a series on transforming primary care encounters by incorporating solution-focused techniques, maybe your interest is piqued by this new approach, but you’re not quite sure how to begin to incorporate it into your practice? We share 7 practical tips to get started here..
If you want to know how to apply a solution-focused approach to the ADCES7 Self-Care Behaviors for managing diabetes in practice, you’ll find the first in a 7-part series on “flipping” the conversation from a “problem focused” (traditional medical) approach to a solution-focused conversation here.
OUR GOAL
Our broad goal at A Fresh POV for You is to focus on Possibilities, Opportunities and creating a Vision (POV) for the future, based on strengths and leveraging positive learnings from past experiences. We want to share our learnings and how-to’s with other diabetes care and education specialists and healthcare professionals in order to begin to flip the paradigm to embrace a solution-focused approach in practice.
OUR MISSION
As we welcome the new year, our Mission continues to be that We guide healthcare professionals in taking a solution-focused approach to practice to enable clients with diabetes to embrace possibilities, opportunities, and a fresh vision for the future.
Our interest and passion around taking a solution-focused approach to practice (and life), means acknowledging what has gone well, acknowledging how that success was achieved, then identifying how to do more of that and build upon that moving forward.
Come along with us as we enter 2025 with New Year’s “solutions”, rather than “resolutions”.
What if, instead of making New Year’s Resolutions this year (which require change and “fixing problems”), you instead guide your patients/clients (and yourself) in making New Year’s Solutions? Who doesn’t like a solution after all? One way to identify solutions is to focus on things that have gone well in the past, and pinpoint how you can do more of that (rather than trying to change). One of the benefits of focusing on what went well, is that you can do it every day. Instead of dwelling on what you didn’t accomplish today, identify what was successful and try to do that “one thing” again tomorrow. You can read more about our take on New Year’s Solutions here.
Join us as we bring you A Year of Solution-Focused Self Care Strategies throughout 2025!
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Deb is employed by Dexcom, but her words and opinions in this blog are her own.
Tami is employed by the University of Kentucky HealthCare Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center, but her words and opinions in this blog are her own.
