145. Embracing The Chaos Lottery: Sarah Stewart Holland on Parenting a Child with T1D

Reclaim Your Rise: Type 1 Diabetes with Lauren Bongiorno

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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