Meet Anisa

The Healthy Living Workshop

Before I became a christian my life was really chaotic tossing to and fro in the tornado of life. I was that women who was planning her own funeral after some really close calls with death from abuse.

I survived being molested. I survived being trafficked. I survived being raped and abused. Beaten with hands and whipped with belts I suffered with many broken bones. I survived multiple strangulations and 4 concussions. I survived my miscarriage and suicidal ideations. I have grieved the deaths of my of loved ones including my parents my siblings and pets. God has promised us this day, so make sure it's worthy of praise. I have survived betrayal through infidelity and survived divorce. The 30 plus years of emotional, mental, physical and spiritual abuse has taken a toI on my health and as a result God has continued to sustain my life through my complex trauma and has made me whole again.

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Now much older lol and wiser I have forgiven those who harmed me and am grateful for being able to move forward in my life.

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God has made me whole again. You too can be made whole too.

There's no room for shame in my life. Everything I've experienced has been counted as survivorship steps.

 Every tear I've shed has been collected in a jar by God and my river of tears have washed away my suffering.

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God has granted me many miracles. I survived my deportation and criminal case after being forced into labor while being trafficked and eventually emigrated through the VAWA and will always remember what the officer said to me the day he stamped “approved” at my green-card interview,… he said “I believe you” and that you have been through enough, and it was the first time that I felt completely free. I danced out of that office only looking forward. 

As it goes my body kept score of all of the abuse. One of my biggest struggles was,…my back, I had multiple fractures from being abused and it finally collapsed. My second back surgery happened in 2016. I wasn't sure if I would walk independently again. After being told that I have 1000ml of nerve damage and nerves take about a millimeter  a day to regenerate, I calculated and anticipated a long 3 1/2 years of nerve regeneration. I spent a year in a wheelchair paralyzed and struggling with complex regional pain syndrome. There were days that I thought I couldn't bare anymore pain. Along with that my marriage fell apart and I was grieving the loss of loved ones and the loss of my autonomy.

Now the porcelain doll fractured but not broken my faith wavered. I sat in that wheelchair grieving over what I used to be. Things got so bad that I internalized my pain and misery and had moments that were so dark that I became hopeless. By now I developed multiple autoimmune diseases. I was at my most vulnerable time. I was fully dependent and in an unsafe environment. The world looks so different when your sitting in a wheelchair. I had to reconcile with God all of my anger, all of my grief and all of my pride as I focused on him for strength. After all he was my one true love who never left me and when my breaking point came he rescued me. I felt God drawing me closer to him in my trials.

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I no longer looked at myself with pity. I forgave every thought of unworthiness I felt towards myself and remembered who I am in Christ. It took me a long painstaking 3 years of suffering to walk unassisted again. My losses were very big with my marriage ending and my sister's sudden death, I came up for air long enough to bear the weight of my fathers death. My acting career died and then I became the full-time caregiver to my 82 year old mother who was in the late stages of Alzheimer's.

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Put on the music and keep on dancing back into your life.

Trust in the process.

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Im bearing my soul and sharing this with you because I believe that through faith God will move mountains and that nothing is impossible with him. You alone have to make that decision to say thats enough. Your perception to your circumstances can change in a blink of an eye.

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You were created for purpose. Do you know yours? 

Do you know your worth?

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I know I'm blessed because despite my physical afflictions I live my life full of purpose and the rest of it I have handed over to God.  My healing wasn't overnight. In my darkest hours Jesus came and grabbed me out of the clutches of my despair. The beautiful thing about my journey is that God has molded me into the loving human he created me to be like. I just had to go through the fire a little longer so he could use me to continue celebrating his Glory that eventually was revealed in me. I become an ambassador for Christ with many wounds and I am deeply passionate about helping survivors realize that there is more to life than simply existing. I am a humbled by my afflictions and am a willing a vessel for the sake of Christ.

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There's something about picking up your cross and following God. Its not easy, but you will know if you are called. Just remember how you walk when God is silent. Our character is built on trusting him in the silence and picking up the broken pieces and handing them all to God. Once my perception had changed and I shed my shame, my life became fully sustained, and that's where I continue to remain, unfeigned and in love with my Lord and savior. Faith comes by believing in the one who created you for his good pleasure.

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Keeping it Classy, sometimes a little bit Sassy, but always Happy

Blessings always Anisa