Reclaim Your Rise: Type 1 Diabetes with Lauren Bongiorno
Lauren Bongiorno is a Nationally Board Certified Health Coach and the founder and CEO of Risely Health. Featured on the TODAY show and other media outlets, Risely helps people and families impacted by Type 1 Diabetes take ownership over their health so they can transform their life with more freedom and confidence. Lauren has lived with type 1 diabetes since she was 7 years old and has experienced firsthand that when health transforms, so does everything else - our relationships, our time, our career, our families, and, most importantly, ourselves. Each week she will bring you lessons from her own personal diabetes experience, strategies that are key to understanding your body’s patterns, and guests who will speak to everything from advances in technology to all things hormones, exercise, relationships, and mindset. All of this so that over time, you TOO can reclaim your rise.
Reclaim Your Rise: Type 1 Diabetes with Lauren Bongiorno
145. Embracing The Chaos Lottery: Sarah Stewart Holland on Parenting a Child with T1D
Named by Apple podcast’s Best Shows of 2021, today’s guest, Sarah Stewart Holland, is a mom, author, speaker, and podcaster of Pantsuit Politics. In today’s conversation, Abby sits down with Sarah to share her family’s journey with Type 1 Diabetes through her son Felix’s diagnosis at the age of seven. Coining the term “The Chaos Lottery,” Sarah talks about her positive mindset approach to living with T1D, along with the impact diabetes has had on Felix’s siblings, how they travel to places like Japan with low anxiety, keeping a healthy relationship to CGM technology, delegating tasks as parents of a child with T1D, preventing diabetes from taking over your relationship with your child, and the one thing she wishes she could look back and tell herself at the onset of diagnosis.
Time Stamps:
- (03:40) Coining “The Chaos Lottery”
- (06:46) Diabetes Impact on Siblings
- (09:15) Traveling With Your Child Who Has T1D
- (13:04) Projecting Anxiety Onto Your Kids
- (14:17) The Reality of Parenting
- (17:53) How She Manages Her Fear & Anxiety as Mom of a Child with T1D
- (22:25) Navigating Diagnosis
- (24:37) Understanding Food Management
- (28:00) Technology is a Blessing and a Curse
- (31:16) Communication and Delegation as Parents
- (36:18) Maintaining a Healthy Parent-Child Relationship
- (38:17) “If you could look back and tell yourself something at diagnosis, what would it be?”
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Disclaimer: Nothing you hear on the Reclaim your Rise podcast should be a substitute for personalized professional medical advice. Please always consult your physician or other medical professional before making any changes to your diet, insulin dosages, or healthcare plan.
