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Foreword to Current Edition

We are all connected. This is the theme of my book, Addict America: The Lost Connection, which explores how any dis-ruption in our connection to ourselves, each other, and the universal life force leads to a lack of intimacy in our relationships. I am delighted to write this forward for a book that explores this theme from another perspective.

Roszler and Rice, the authors of this amazing and much-needed book, are truly groundbreaking risk-takers in that they are tackling a subject that is generally avoided in the medical world—sexual intimacy. They dive into this theme of disconnection as they discuss how diabetes creates a barrier to sexual intimacy in relationships and then how to overcome those barriers.

Doctors rarely talk about it because, first, many are not trained very well, if at all, in sexual health. Second, doctors are focused on keep-ing patients medically healthy. The fact is, emotional health—which in-cludes self-esteem, relationships, and intimacy—contributes enormously to physical health and is integral to human well-being. In the first edition of this book, Roszler and Rice, both diabetes experts, introduced the public to some solutions to the sexual challenges of living with diabetes. During the writing of this second edition, Roszler became certified as a sex therapist and infused that education into the holistic approach both authors take to the overall health of people living with diabetes.