Reclaim Your Rise
with Lauren Bongiorno

In this week’s episode, we have Registered Dietician and Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist Diana Mesa on the pod! Diana has a passion for practicing from a non-diet approach to address the impact of insulin resistance, gut health, and stress on her patients’ health and blood sugars. She helps her clients connect with their intuition and apply mindfulness to their relationship with food and body while enjoying the foods they grew up eating. There’s so much to learn in this conversation. In this episode, we discuss… Patterns we’ve witnessed people doing over and over with their diets that don’t work How cutting out cultural foods that are a part of family traditions can be disempowering for your mindset as a T1D Looking beyond the number on the scale for health and confidence  How we as T1Ds can perpetuate certain type two diabetes stigmas  I do want to give a trigger warning that we do talk about weight, diets, and body image. So please skip this if you are not in a good place to explore these topics. WHERE TO FIND DIANA: Visit Diana’s Website HERE. Follow Diana’s on Instagram HERE. Hit the subscribe button and rate and review to help this podcast rise! Follow me @lauren_bongiorno and @riselyhealth on Instagram to stay in the loop for when new episodes drop. Send me a DM to introduce yourself with any feedback, questions, or suggestions on topics you’d like us to cover in future episodes. RESOURCES FOR YOU: Get support with your mindset around T1D HERE Learn more about our 1:1 coaching programs HERE. 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.

Welcome to this week’s podcast! Today I’m getting really vulnerable with you and sharing my experience with one of the worst low blood sugars I’ve had in years. Along with this story, I’ll provide three tips that I’ve learned throughout my diabetes journey to help you bounce back from these types of low blood sugar incidents. Whether intentional or unintentional, as T1Ds we are used to hiding the daily ups and downs that we experience from the people around us. This is part of why it can feel like diabetes is such an invisible condition because there's so much that we do daily that no one knows about. My hope is that you can take the lessons from this podcast and apply them to your own life with diabetes, so you feel less alone and more equipped to manage your lows. Hit the subscribe button and rate and review to help this podcast rise! Follow me @lauren_bongiorno and @riselyhealth on Instagram to stay in the loop for when new episodes drop. Send me a DM to introduce yourself with any feedback, questions, or suggestions on topics you’d like us to cover in future episodes. RESOURCES FOR YOU: Get more T1D tips with this free download HERE . Join the Risely T1D community in our free Facebook group HERE. Thank you to the Reclaim Your Rise podcast sponsor, the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation. Stay up to date on all the DRIF news by becoming a DRI Insider here . New DRIF Newsletter subscribers will receive an exclusive FREE resource from Risely Health! 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.

Our guest today is the wonderful Stacey Simms. This episode is absolute gold for parents and caregivers of kids and teens with type one diabetes. You may already know Stacey if you listen to the Diabetes Connections Podcast. She is a podcast host, award-winning broadcaster and speaker, as well as the author of two diabetes parenting books The World's Worst Diabetes Mom and Still the World's Worst Diabetes Mom. Stacey’s son Benny was diagnosed with T1D in December of 2006, one month before he turned two years old. He’s now eighteen! In this episode we discuss… What stages of Benny’s childhood were the hardest to navigate with T1D The balance of when to keep diabetes in the background vs. when to bring it to the forefront Helicopter parenting  The detrimental mindset of comparing your child's numbers to other T1D’s numbers How to get out of chasing perfection with blood sugars as a parent WHERE TO FIND STACEY: Visit Stacey’s Website HERE. Follow Stacey on Instagram HERE. Check out Stacey Simms’s “Still The World’s Worst Diabetes Mom” on Amazon and wherever you buy books and at Diabetes-Connections.com . If you buy through the website, you can get a signed copy and use the promo code “Risely” for free shipping! Learn more about Stacey’s MOM’S NIGHT OUT event HERE. Hit the subscribe button and rate and review to help this podcast rise! Follow me @lauren_bongiorno and @riselyhealth on Instagram to stay in the loop for when new episodes drop. Send me a DM to introduce yourself with any feedback, questions, or suggestions on topics you’d like us to cover in future episodes. RESOURCES FOR YOU: FREE Blood sugar hacks guide for T1D parents HERE Learn more about our coaching programs HERE. 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.

Happy New Year and welcome to the very first episode of the Reclaim Your Rise podcast for 2023! We are starting off strong with DCB graduate Tess Jablon on the show today. Tess was diagnosed with type one diabetes 30 years ago at the age of seven and later also received a PCOS diagnosis, which, if you weren’t already aware, happens to about one in four T1D women. Before enrolling in Risley's Deciding Conquer Group Coaching Bootcamp, Tess was feeling stuck in a cycle of negativity and the belief that she was a failure. After completing the DCB, she not only lowered her A1C from an 11.8 to an 8.3, but also found autonomy over her own body. Now she's here, on the other side of learning to work with her diabetes, with a newfound confidence and peace of mind that we should all strive for. In this conversation, which covers such a range of topics, Tess shares... The importance of finding community and building a support system when living with T1D and PCOS The tools that she used to overcome the negative cycles she was stuck in with her diabetes management  Her newfound perspective on having type one diabetes and why she believes it’s a gift and... so much more! If you can relate to Tess’s story and feel inspired to transform your own relationship with diabetes, we have a few spots open in our January 2023 Decide + Conquer Bootcamp . Learn more and apply HERE by Sunday, January 8th. Hit the subscribe button and rate and review to help this podcast rise! Follow me @lauren_bongiorno and @riselyhealth on Instagram to stay in the loop for when new episodes drop. Send me a DM to introduce yourself with any feedback, questions, or suggestions on topics you’d like us to cover in future episodes. RESOURCES FOR YOU: Get more T1D tips HERE . Access our Cornerstone Classes HERE . Grab your own Diabetic Health Journal HERE . 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.