We love saying “I wasn’t escaping, I was finding myself.”

But what if both are true?

In this episode, I challenge the false opposition we keep living in:
travel vs home, freedom vs stability, escaping vs finding yourself.

Because here’s the uncomfortable truth: everyone is escaping something.
Scrolling, traveling, working nonstop, relationships, movement, same pattern, different tools.

This episode is for you if:

• You’ve lived abroad or moved countries and still feel restless

• Going back home feels heavy, small, or triggering

• You don’t know what you’re chasing anymore, just that something feels “off”

• You’re tired of choosing between extremes

We talk about:

• Why travel and escape can coexist

• What “home” actually means (and why places won’t fix it)

• Why your home country is often your shadow

• The urge to leave as a trauma response, not intuition

• How staying with inner conflict creates real clarity

• Why belonging requires being seen, not disappearing

This is not about convincing you to stay or leave.
It’s about stopping the escape long enough to hear what you actually want.

Want personalized support for your return journey?

🔗Book a free 30-minute clarity call: Here

🔗 Join the 20 days challenge Rise Up : Here

🔗Grab the Ebook Deep Dive : Here

Follow me on Instagram for daily insights and support: @The returner support

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Returning home isn’t just about familiarity, it’s about a strange duality: comfort and anxiety. On one hand, home feels safe, known, and grounding. On the other, it can trigger old patterns, uncomfortable memories, and questions about who you’ve become.

In this episode, I explore the invisible tension of going back after living abroad: the nostalgia for family and friends, the reality of relationships that haven’t evolved, and the ways we unconsciously cling to the comfort of home while fearing stagnation. I share personal stories about friendships, family dynamics, and how our identity abroad changes what, and who, we value when we return.

You’ll hear why returning is a powerful mirror for self-awareness, how to decide which connections to keep, and how to use your homecoming as information to live a life more aligned with who you are now.

If you’ve ever felt torn between two worlds, missing home but wanting more than your old life, this episode will give you clarity, perspective, and a new way to approach your return.

Want personalized support for your return journey?

🔗 Book a free 30-minute clarity call here: Here

🔗 Join the 20 days challenge Rise Up : Here

🔗Grab the Ebook Deep Dive : Here

Follow me on Instagram for daily insights and support: @The returner support

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Welcome to The Returner Support Podcast, the podcast for people who came back to their home country after a long time abroad and realized that nothing is simple anymore.

I’m your host, Anaïs Ruel, life transition expert, and yes, probably the friend who says the things no one else dares to say during this phase of your life.

In today’s episode, we talk about something most people avoid at all costs:

How to never waste your return back home.

This episode was inspired by a sentence I heard at a business event:
“Never waste a good heartbreak.” And immediately, I knew, the same applies to returning home.

Because returning to your country is a heartbreak.
And like any heartbreak, it comes with grief, shame, anger, loneliness, and the urge to escape.

In this episode, I share:

• A very personal story about a relationship that ended, and how I avoided feeling the pain

• How distraction, busyness, and “fixing yourself” is often just emotional avoidance

• Why December was one of the heaviest months for me, and what it revealed

• How grief shows up as anger toward friends, places, men, and even your own country

• Why running to another country too fast is often emotional bypassing

• The dangerous belief that “I shouldn’t feel this way”

• Why returning home brings up old wounds you thought were healed

• How places hold emotional memory, and why your reaction is data, not a problem

• Why your country is not the issue, your filter is

• How grief softens your lens and changes how you see people, places, and yourself

I share reflections inspired by the book Belonging, including this powerful idea:
Grief is the current that carries us into our next becoming.

This episode is not about fixing your life.
It’s about feeling what you’ve been running from, so you don’t repeat it everywhere you go.

Before you move again.
Before you blame your country.
Before you blame yourself.

Want personalized support for your return journey?

🔗Book a free 30-minute clarity call here: Here

🔗Grab the Ebook Deep Dive : Here

Follow me on Instagram for daily insights and support: @The returner support

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