The body’s message about forgotten sweetness
Diabetes… it’s not just a sugar imbalance.
It’s often a silent sign that, at some point, life has lost a bit of its sweetness.
When we truly listen to the body’s language, we understand that it doesn’t shout “illness,”
it whispers: “You’re missing something tender, something sweet, something alive…”
Sugar represents joy, gentleness, the ability to savor existence.
When its balance is disrupted, it’s as if the human being has forgotten how to receive life’s sweetness,
as if trying to replace with taste what they can no longer feel inside.
The pancreas—connected to the solar plexus, the center of self-expression, will, and the right to receive as much as to give—reacts when joy is suppressed,
when too much disappointment or powerlessness accumulates without being released.
The body then tries to compensate in its own way.
Many people living with diabetes are deeply gentle souls,
always ready to give,
but never allowing themselves to receive.
They offer love without asking for it,
and when their generosity goes unnoticed, a small bitterness begins to grow…
and that is often where the “loss of the taste of life” begins.
Behind diabetes, there may be a longing for a love never fully lived,
or a relationship where one gave far more than they received.
The subconscious ends up associating love with pain,
preferring to step away rather than relive the wound.
But the body never gives up on sweetness.
So it looks for it elsewhere:
in sugar, in flavor, in that brief moment when everything feels tender again.
True healing is not just about reducing sugar intake.
It begins when we learn to savor life itself again:
to laugh without justification,
to welcome love without fear,
to let the inner child understand that it doesn’t need to earn anything.
When we allow ourselves to receive as much as we give,
when we release old wounds,
when we stop fighting our own body,
the pancreas begins to relax…
and life gently returns its flavor to the one who had lost it.
For the sugar the body asks for is often nothing more than a request for forgotten love.
Give it back its sweetness… and life will return yours.


