Today is Day #1.
It’s a big decision, I know. Deciding to take just one more step. Deciding to just keep going.
My name is Anna Imagination. And I was raped on 9/11.
This is the story of how I recovered. Broken is the story of how I came to be raped on the day the world stopped turning.
This is a story I have tried to write many times.
So many times.
Just like Broken, every time I started, it didn’t feel right. My story hadn’t ended. I was still in it. In April 2015, I realized that the first chapter of my life… “Broken” was finally over, and it was time… I was finally able to tell my story.
And I did.
So many times thereafter, I returned for “the sequel.” I couldn’t do it. Only now, in this moment, do I understand why.
Because I was still in the Second Chapter of my life.
Well, today, this day, that second chapter ended, and the third chapter began.
There is no right way… no wrong way to tell my story.
Broken should have been called “Victim.”
Well… The last seven years, From April 2015 to 16 February 2023, I was in Chapter 2: Survive.
The next Chapter, Chapter 3… Is called “Thrive” and this is the stage today that I am starting.
This is Transmutation Trauma. I recently heard the term. Thank you, Anthony. It simply means the stage of Trauma healing where you transform your trauma into positive light and energy. The Healer (That’s me), literally changes my negative memory and experience into the perspective of good, bright, and beautiful. And only then, could I finally experience, recognize, and know a feeling with which I have never known before.
Love.