Julie K. Rhodes: Finding acceptance and healing through chronic illness

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Julie K. Rhodes is an actor and author. In March of 2020, Julie
was a healthy 30- something with a husband, two kids, a pug, and
a professional acting career. A month later, she would be
fighting an illness that her health team would come to believe
was COVID-19. For the next year and a half, the virus would
plague Julie with debilitating symptoms. She is the author of
Chronic Grace: Prayers, Saints, and Thorns That Stay published in
2023.

Julie narrates her health journey through long Covid, where she
experienced debilitating chronic illness for 18 months. As a
mother of 2 young children, this was a life-altering experience.
She also relates how she had to come to a new sense of self and
acceptance as she was no longer able to do the acting work she
loved.

Our conversation is honest and vulnerable as we discuss frantic
striving for answers and quiet acceptance of reality, learning to
hold on and let go, and leaning into story and faith to find
strength and healing.

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