What if your entire life has been a performance—and you’re just now waking up?

For years, Anton Volney felt hollow. Trapped. Like a ghost in someone else’s story. He abandoned his true self to survive toxic family dynamics, a controlling marriage, and a world that demanded he shrink to fit. At his lowest, he couldn’t even recognize the man in the mirror. He was overweight, emotionally numb, and living a life he never chose.

But then everything cracked open.

In Permission to Be Powerful, Anton offers an unflinching look at how we lose ourselves—through people-pleasing, trauma, and codependency—and how to find our way back. With raw honesty, spiritual insight, and hard-won wisdom, he shows you how to reconnect with the person you were meant to become before the world got its hands on you.

This is not a self-help book. It’s a battle cry.
For the sensitive.
The silenced.
The ones who were told to stay small.

Inside, you'll learn:

• Why most people die never knowing who they truly are

• How to spot the predators, energy vampires, and perpetual victims sabotaging your growth

• What it really means to be in alignment—and why it’s the key to your power

• How to burn the old script and step into the life you were actually born to live

If you’ve ever felt like your life wasn’t yours… if you’re tired of performing, pleasing, or surviving—
this book is your permission slip.

You were never broken.
You just forgot who you are.