You've done the courses. Read the books. Maybe you're the one everyone else comes to for advice. So why is that hollow feeling still there?

In this first episode, Anat Peri tells the story of the morning a voice told her to check her boyfriend's backpack, and how what she found exposed eight years of "doing the work" without healing a single wound. If your life looks right and feels wrong, if you've been calling your relationship or your career "fine," this episode will show you the difference between performing your growth and actually feeling your way home.

You'll learn: why insight alone never heals, what "fine" is actually telling you, and how to hear the part of you that already knows

Elissa came to this session carrying something so many high-achieving women know intimately... an incredible man in her life who wanted to love her, provide for her, and take care of her... and she couldn't let him in. She didn't know why. She just kept pushing him away, isolating, grinding harder, and burning out.

What we discovered had nothing to do with him and everything to do with a little girl who was never allowed to quit gymnastics.

In this episode:

• How the "do it all yourself" identity gets wired in early and why it follows us into adulthood, relationships, and business
• Why blocking receiving from one person means blocking it from everyone including clients, God, and the universe
• What it actually feels like in the body when an old identity begins to release
• The moment Elissa went from heavy and drowning... to feeling like she could fly

Sit with this:

Where in your life are you refusing to receive? And what identity is ready to be released in you?

Connect with Anat:

📲 Instagram: @anat.peri

🌐 www.trainingcampforthesoul.com

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🎁 The Cultivating Safety Breathwork - a free 17-minute somatic session to help your nervous system feel safe enough to receive:

Have you ever done all the work — the therapy, the courses, the self-help books — and still felt like something wasn't healing?

That's where this show begins.

The Way Back to You is a podcast about the patterns of self-abandonment that keep us stuck — in relationships, in love, in life — and what it actually takes to come home to yourself.

Each week, host Anat Peri shares raw personal stories and real coaching sessions that take you beneath the pattern, to the root.

This isn't about advice. It's about going deeper.

Follow the show and start from the beginning. The thread runs through all of it.

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