Metanoia

By the age of 23, Anna McGahan was wrestling with the rest of the world for ownership of her femininity, sexuality and physicality. As a young actor suddenly thrust into the spotlight as a poster girl for sexual liberation – intent on exploring New Age spirituality, the next relationship and the wildest high – her path continuously pointed her to chaos, consumption and isolation. Until she met God. In this memoir, Anna shares the story of reconciling with her body, mapping its journey from a cheapened product in a marketplace to a vessel of astonishing worth. This is a deeply personal and radical story, of a body rescued, redeemed and set free. Of holy pain and undeserved healing. Of a life completely and irrevocably changed. Metanoia is the cry of a body broken and resurrected, the song of a bird set free.

Deeply affecting, devastatingly raw, immensely authentic … I cannot recall the last time I was so moved by a personal before-and-a‑ er narrative of radical transformation.

Melinda Tankard Reist - Author, speaker, co-founder Collective Shout

Opening the pages of Metanoia is like accepting an invitation. A hand held out toward you that says, ‘Come. Take a look. This is all of me.’ Anna offers her story to the reader with absolute abandon. She tells us the truth of it all.

Joel McKerrow - Writer, Poet, Educator, Creativity Specialist