Read more
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.
About the author
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.
Summary
Chronic Hope is a long drink of cool water for the parent thirsting for practical wisdom in navigating the emotional stress of raising their chronically ill child.
Leaning on Bonnie O’Neil’s personal experience as a caregiver Chronic Hope delivers practical insight and solutions while avoiding the tone of a typical self-help book. Instead, it reads like a conversation with a friend, where one parent’s stories give the other parent permission to feel the full range of their emotions and encourages them to discover hope in the long journey. Readers witness Bonnie's mistakes and missteps, glean from her revelations, and find inspiration in the principles and attitudes she begins to apply to everyday situations. Through story and reflection, Bonnie gently shares a vision of navigating chronic disease with strength, resilience and loving self-sacrifice.
Chronic Hope leverages one family’s journey raising a child with chronic illness and provides readers the tools necessary to process their own emotional responses to the unexpected path ahead of them. Thematically, Chronic Hope begins deep within the heart of the caregiver and gradually works itself outward into each relationship within the family, and eventually into the wider world.
Chronic Hope offers a fresh vision of hope in the darkest valleys of illness, suffering, and broken dreams.
Foreword
Connect with 30-to 50-year old parents of a child diagnosed with chronic illness Reach out to school nurses, physicians, nurse educators and hospital social workersSpeak through JDRF Speakers Bureau and at conferences and retreats for parents, doctors, and patients of chronic illness
Share book with network in the UK and Canada
Blog on own site and write for other blogs
Grow social media and email list
Utilize National Diabetes Awareness Month (November) and World Diabetes Day (Nov 14) to promote and connect with audience
Continue to write articles for outlets such as BeyondType1
Submit to major industry reviewers, including Publisher’s Weekly and Foreword Reviews
