After being in a cult for 5 years, Anja fell into severe mental illness, including schizophrenia. In most Shamanic tradition it is believed that mental illness can be an initiation, an awakening of a person's true spiritual power and potential as long as a person.

She knows from personal experience that no matter what a person is going through, there can always be hope even when experts say there isn't. There is hope, even in the darkest places.