What My Chronic Illness Taught Me

Manya Ronay
5 min readDec 21, 2020
Photo by Elia Pellegrini on Unsplash

“When you have your health, you have everything,” writes American author Augusten Burroughs. His words ring true today as I reflect on our current global health crisis and my personal healing journey.

For the first 18 years of my life, I took my health for granted.

I ate whatever I wanted.

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Manya Ronay

Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES®) and Internal Family Systems (IFS) practitioner specializing in food and health.