I'm Not Crazy, I Have Just Been Altered: One woman's journey from being invisible to finding her authentic self

For most of my life, I believed there was something fundamentally wrong with me. How else could I explain the fragments of memory, the voices, the shifting identities, and the feeling that parts of my life belonged to someone else? The truth was far more complicated. Born from extreme childhood abuse, my mind learned to survive by compartmentalizing what could not be endured. Decades later, a record-breaking tornado would shatter my world in an entirely different way, forcing buried wounds, unanswered questions, and long-suppressed truths to the surface. But surviving was only the beginning. What followed was a lifelong search for answers: What happens to us when trauma alters us at our very core? Who are we beneath the identities we create to survive? And where does traditional religion end and spirituality begin? Through years of confusion, discovery, pain, and profound spiritual experiences, I began to understand that I was never "crazy." I had been altered. Perhaps becoming whole was never about returning to who I once was but rather discovering whom I was always meant to be. "I'm Not Crazy, I've Just Been Altered" is an extraordinary journey from invisibility to my authentic self.