"To love oneself allows you to love others and to seek
relationships that are healthy and fulfilling" with
Dr. Ronna Krozy and Fotis Georgiadis
Ronna E Krozy, EdD, RN. Dr. Krozy (or Ronna), is a retired
university professor of community health nursing with a
doctoral degree in Health Education. She has lectured and
published professionally on many topics related to her field
of nursing. She is also a nudist and is a Trustee on the
AANR board.
Over a year ago, AANR reached out to Authority Magazine and
offered an article regarding body acceptance. They accepted
the offer and Ronna wrote an article. Over a year went by
and then it was published. It was not quite what Ronna
wrote. They deleted all referenceS to nudist and AANR. When
Ronna asked what happened, she was told "Some content was
removed as they violate Thrive Global's content guidelines
." Thrive Global seems to be the parent company.
Specifically, according to the editor: "we were not aware
that you were going to discuss nudism. Thrive's editors do
not allow that discussion on their platform and the
content would be deleted, and my column might be shut down
as well."
Ronna's original article:
Learning To Finally Love Yourself
With
Bianca Rodriguez
INTERVIEW QUESTIONS.
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As a part of my series about “Learning To Finally Love
Yourself” I had the pleasure to interview…
Ronna
E Krozy, EdD, RN. Dr. Krozy (or Ronna) is a retired
university professor of community health nursing with a
doctoral degree in Health Education.
She has lectured and published professionally on many
topics related to her field of nursing.
However, she was interviewed in relation to her
activism as a social nudist and her involvement in the
American Association for Nude Recreation.
Ronna
has been member of the American Association for Nude
Recreation (AANR) for over 20 years and a Trustee of the
AANR Board since 2016.
She currently serves as the Chair of Public Relations
for AANR as well as for the Eastern Region.
As a strong advocate for educating the public about
social nudism, she has co-written articles in
Natural Awakenings,
a holistic health magazine, and has appeared on TV.
She continues to write many articles for
The Bulletin,
AANR's magazine for members. These include the 7 part series
entitled "How Long Should You Wait to Tell the World You're
a Nudist?" available to the public on AANR's website
www.aanr.com.
Thank you so much for joining us! I’d love to begin by
asking you to give us the backstory as to what brought you
to this specific career path.
As a
nurse, health educator and parent, I
have always believed that the body is an
amazing machine and beautiful in the
many forms it comes in.
Unfortunately, we live in a
society that judges body beauty in ways
that are unreachable for the vast
majority.
Supermodel images of men and
women have made many people...including
girls as young as 6!....unhappy with the
way they look.
Beginning in the early 1980's, I traveled with a friend to
St. Barts in the French West Indies where I discovered
toplessness and found it interesting and comfortable (though
my friend didn't!).
But my first real experience involved my relationship
in the early 90's with a nudist who was a member of Dyer
Woods in Rhode Island. Even at my first encounter,
surrounded by an array of unclothed people sitting by the
pond, I had neither anxiety nor hesitation to become 'one of
them.' And I joined
AANR.
Some years later, after meeting the man I would eventually
marry, I mentioned that I was a nudist and missed the
friends and the way of life I had enjoyed.
Fortunately, he said it wouldn't be a problem. So...I
immediately booked visits to a few naturist resorts. My
husband was perfectly comfortable. When we visited Solair, a
family nudist resort in Woodstock, CT. we fell in love with
the place and decided to buy a cabin there. We have remained
active members for 17 years.
Our Club requires its members to join AANR, so we
both became members.
Involvement with Nudism
Advocacy and Public Relations
From almost the beginning of our membership at Solair, I
became active in recruitment of members through the
Membership Committee and then in public education about
nudism via our Marketing, Communications, PR Committee.
In 2005, I agreed to appear in a DVD to
be used for advertising purposes.
It was a fun experience although in retrospect, it
could have used professional direction.
Several years later, we had the benefit of a PR
specialist who subsequently became President of AANR.
This was of tremendous value as I headed up the
training sessions for members being interviewed for a
televised report about Solair on NBC Channel 30, Hartford.
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here to continue with the
article.
If you are interested, click
here for the article that was
published. (warning, you will not recognize it!!)
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