Description: Chronic Hope helps parents of children living with chronic disease gain practical wisdom for managing the emotional stress of raising a chronically ill child, so they can navigate these challenges with grace, courage, and love.
Brief description: Bonnie O'Neil has a son and two siblings with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and is an active board member and strategic leader of the founding chapter of JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation), the world's leading funder of research to cure, prevent, and treat T1D. As a member of JDRF's National Speakers Bureau, Bonnie is a featured presenter at education conferences throughout the T1D community. She has contributed essays on raising a child with T1D to the heavily trafficked diabetes website BeyondType1 where her articles typically reach between 20-32K readers with high engagement. Bonnie is a spiritual director, the Executive Director of Alpha Mid Atlantic, and lives in suburban Philadelphia.