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In this deeply personal episode, Megan Conrad Anaya, MSW, explores the intersection of faith, spiritual abuse, and the radical power of choice in the healing journey. Drawing from over two decades of trauma work and her own lived experience, Megan shares how a pivotal moment in a therapy session — realizing no human being could truly guarantee her past pain would never return — became the turning point that sent her toward a personal relationship with the divine.

In this episode, Megan covers:

• Why human reassurance alone often isn't enough to sustain deep trauma healing — and what to turn to instead
• How organized religion can be both a source of profound spiritual experience and a vehicle for spiritual abuse — and how to navigate that duality
• The role of personal choice in healing, even when nearly everything else has been stripped away
• Reflections on the life and passing of Holocaust survivor and psychologist Dr. Edith Eger (1927–2026), whose memoir The Choice profoundly shaped Megan's healing philosophy
• How the CASCADE journaling exercise was born out of Megan's own raw conversations with God
• What it means to carry safety within yourself rather than depending on outside sources
• Why connection to a higher power — beyond any specific religion — may be the missing piece for people stuck in cycles of distress

Resources & People Mentioned:

• The Choice by Dr. Edith Eger
  
  
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
  
  
• The CASCADE Framework (Megan's proprietary coaching process)

Key Quote from this episode:
"I could start carrying that safety with me everywhere I went, instead of having it come from the outside."

Dr. Edith Eger passed away on April 27, 2026, at age 98. Her legacy — that we always retain the power to choose our response — echoes powerfully throughout this episode. If this conversation resonated with you, stay tuned for more on how Megan integrates directed coherence and subtle body work into her coaching programs to help clients develop their own connection to something greater than themselves.

Power Back Here exists for the individual or couple ready to stop living in survival mode — and start choosing something entirely different.

This is the work of recognizing your trauma patterns, reclaiming your nervous system, and rebuilding intimacy in the relationships that matter most — with yourself, with others, and with God. Because real healing was never meant to be something you white-knuckle alone. It was always meant to be a return. A return to the One who knew you before the damage, before the survival strategies, before you forgot what it felt like to be fully yourself.

Christ is the center of this work. Not as a concept or a comfort — but as the living relational anchor who makes it possible to face what's hard, release what's broken, and build something that actually sustains and supports us. Sovereign love isn't something we manufacture. It's something we receive — and then learn to live from.

That is what we are building here, one honest episode at a time.

If this is resonating and you're ready to go deeper — in yourself or in your marriage — you can book a call with me here to talk about next steps.

Power back here.