Lauren Bongiorno is a virtual diabetic health coach, entrepreneur, and author of the Diabetic Health Journal. Lauren coaches and creates resources for people with type 1 diabetes all over the world to achieve optimal diabetes management and feel strong and empowered. Lauren’s practice is rooted in her 360 degree approach, emphasizing wellness throughout the mind, body, and soul. And the…
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Celebrating the holidays with that special insulin-deficient someone? Here are a few trinkets and treats that will bring a little extra joy this holiday season. The Myabetic line of bags are perfect for a PWD on the move, and they offer a slate of fashionable, functional, and fabulous options for women, men, and little kids affected by diabetes. My favorite…
New podcasts keep popping up all over the place, and the diabetes world is no exception. Over the last few weeks, I’ve come across several that I’ll be highlighting here, starting today with the Dads and Diabetes podcast. Mark and Alan, the podcast co-hosts, join me today for an informal interview. (All my interviews are informal. 🙂 ) Kerri: Thanks…
I used to wait on that cure. Not openly, but quietly. Every time a five year mark come and go and I’d be confused and feeling like my disappointment was silly, yet pervasive. After a few years, I stopped feeling bad about it. And after several decades, I stopped thinking about it at all. My hope lives in a different…
I’m weirdly proud to have brought this term to the DOC back in 2005 or 2006. (My blog has fallen apart/reassembled a few different times since then, so the posts are wonkily formatted, and some are missing.) And every time I read the phrase on someone’s post or see it on a t-shirt or actually take a frigging rage bolus,…
Last week, I was happy to visit the dermatologist for my yearly skin once-over. I’ve written about skin things before (the one about melasma, and the weird toe, and dry skin like whoa), and lately, I feel like there have been more issues than usual. I blame the weather turning mind- blowingly cold all of a sudden, as my hands…
Goals: Wake up. Avoid shit that makes me feel crummy. Surround myself with people who make me feel like I’m understood. Drink just enough coffee to keep my eyelids pinned open but not so much that the room feels filled with bees. Check in on my blood sugars. Care about those numbers. Care about myself enough to care about those…
Advice for “Newbies”
Diabetes Advocacy, Diabetes and Emotions, Diabetes Community, Diabetes Online Community(This prompt was pulled from the #happydiabeticchallenge over on Instagram. To check out that hashtag, click here.) I feel weird giving advice because even after 32 years of diabetes, I’m still trying to figure things out. A lot of the time, I have “no eyed deer” what I doing. But the main thing that I keep circling back to is the…
Cyber Monday is more my thing than Black Friday. I don’t enjoy fighting crowds at stores and I definitely try to keep things light and minimal when shopping for the holidays, so the clickity-clack, tippity tap kind of shopping is preferred. So in honor of Cyber Monday, I’m using my digital platform to sell copies of my paperback book, Balancing…
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