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The Crappy Childhood Fairy Podcast with Anna Runkle

I’m Anna Runkle, also known as the Crappy Childhood Fairy, and I teach people to recognize and heal the symptoms of Childhood PTSD. Welcome to my podcast!I’m not a doctor or therapist; I know about childhood trauma because I lived it, and I discovered a radical approach to healing that focuses first on calming neurological dysregulation, which is common in people who grew up with abuse and neglect. In my podcasts, I teach about dysregulation – how to know if you have it, what it can do to your body, your thinking and your relationships, and what to do to master re-regulation. When I learned this, everything in my life got suddenly easier. I’ll also be teaching you to heal the life problems that so often develop after years of living dysregulated – feeling tired, isolated and unfocused, finding yourself always drawn to unavailable and inappropriate partners, and falling WAY short of your professional potential, for example. The thing about me is, traditional therapies never seemed to help me. When I found techniques that did work, my whole life changed. Only in the past few years has the trauma research caught up to explain why – why the techniques I use worked, why therapy didn’t, and why my healing journey was so unnecessarily long. I’ve been teaching what I learned for more than 20 years now. It started with friends who had noticed the quick and dramatic change in me, and gradually grew by word of mouth. In 2016, I had so many people seeking instruction that I made my first online video, and then an online course, and this is how Crappy Childhood Fairy was born. My techniques and principles are practical yet powerful – an approach anyone can use, whether or not you have access to professional help. In this podcast, I’ll be talking about the master of self-regulation, and teach the tough-love life-lessons that you may not have learned at home – like how to date so that stable love finds you, how to get ahead at work, and how to calm the negative hamster-wheel thoughts that block your ability to connect with other people. Today, almost half a million people follow my work and participate in my training and coaching programs. My mission is to change the paradigm of what’s possible for people like us, and to help you free yourself from the oppression of trauma wounds, and to become your full, happy and real self. I’m glad you’re here! Watch new videos on my YouTube channel every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and access my videos, courses and free tools at crappychildhoodfairy.com.

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Update frequency
every 2 days
Average duration
34 minutes
Episodes
498
Years Active
2022 - 2025
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Your Attractiveness Grows When You Heal Your Unmet Childhood Needs

Your Attractiveness Grows When You Heal Your Unmet Childhood Needs

People whose partners have CPTSD often become confused about the meaning of "support." When should you tolerate yelling, ghosting, and intensive criticism, and when is this just too much? In this vid…

00:14:09  |   Fri 15 Sep 2023
How a Lack of Boundaries Makes You Invisible and Alone

How a Lack of Boundaries Makes You Invisible and Alone

If you grew up with an abusive or neglectful parent – and especially if you were the oldest child -- you may have learned to dance around and do everything in your power to make Mom stop being sad. Y…

00:30:51  |   Wed 13 Sep 2023
Your Career Advances Quickly When You Heal These Trauma Symptoms

Your Career Advances Quickly When You Heal These Trauma Symptoms

Too many people with Childhood PTSD are held back by trauma symptoms that damage their ability to envision their future, form positive work relationships, and maintain the focus and physical energy n…

02:38:05  |   Sun 27 Aug 2023
My Response to PESSIMISTS and MORE Answers to Great Questions from the Comment Section

My Response to PESSIMISTS and MORE Answers to Great Questions from the Comment Section

Every day, I read the comments and questions of hundreds of viewers on my YouTube channel. Sometimes the questions make me angry. Sometimes I want to give the person a hug! In this video I respond to…

00:54:18  |   Fri 25 Aug 2023
Limerence Confuses Your Ability to Tell What's REAL

Limerence Confuses Your Ability to Tell What's REAL

It’s a horrible feeling when you THINK someone is interested in you and flirted with you, and then you respond in what you THINK is the same vibe – and THEY FREAK OUT. People who were emotionally neg…

00:12:16  |   Wed 23 Aug 2023
How to Tell If Your Relationship is Suffering Because ONE of You Is Codependent

How to Tell If Your Relationship is Suffering Because ONE of You Is Codependent

Codependency sucks the life out the person who can't help but try to extract their own happiness by changing another person. If you believe you'd be happy IF your partner (or relative) would do what …

00:27:35  |   Tue 22 Aug 2023
Learn My Top Tips for Healing Past Trauma and Changing Your Life

Learn My Top Tips for Healing Past Trauma and Changing Your Life

So much content on trauma is about WHAT HAPPENED. It's true that acknowledging the past is important, but real healing happens when you can notice your CPTSD SYMPTOMS and use strategies to calm your …

02:42:58  |   Sun 06 Aug 2023
Working Harder Than Most Other People COULD Be Over-Functioning

Working Harder Than Most Other People COULD Be Over-Functioning

Overfunctioning is a trauma reaction where a person does TOO much – too much work, too much managing, too much trying to compensate for other people being unsafe, unloving and unreliable. It’s a surv…

00:10:28  |   Fri 04 Aug 2023
If Others' Success Fills You With Pain, Here's What to Do

If Others' Success Fills You With Pain, Here's What to Do

When you were never loved enough in the first place -- and then you witness someone else getting really, really loved – it can tear down all the defenses you’ve built up in order to cope with the pai…

00:09:05  |   Wed 02 Aug 2023
These Five Phases Show You Where You've Healed CPTSD and What's Next

These Five Phases Show You Where You've Healed CPTSD and What's Next

If you’re not making progress healing from the effects of a traumatic childhood, it’s very likely, that whatever you were told to do is not working for you.There's an old way the world sees trauma an…

00:13:13  |   Mon 31 Jul 2023
Why It's So Hard to Tell When Someone Else Is The Problem (and When It's Just You)

Why It's So Hard to Tell When Someone Else Is The Problem (and When It's Just You)

If you were neglected, manipulated, or gaslighted as a child you may still be struggling to be sure if a hurtful situation is a) someone mistreating you or b) your imagination. Until you heal trauma-…

01:33:09  |   Sun 30 Jul 2023
Attachment Wounds Rob You Of The Feeling of “Home”

Attachment Wounds Rob You Of The Feeling of “Home”

There’s a deep need in every one of us to have a parent who deeply loves us. Where THEY are, is where we derive the feeling of HOME. And sometimes, as we grow up and go out on our own, when times get…

00:15:36  |   Fri 28 Jul 2023
How Abandonment Wounds Trick You Into Staying With People Who Mistreat You

How Abandonment Wounds Trick You Into Staying With People Who Mistreat You

If you grew up emotionally neglected, you may have learned to ignore and override clear information that someone is mistreating you. At first you feel hurt and angry when they do it; you try to set a…

00:29:45  |   Wed 26 Jul 2023
The Limerent Flip: Facing Rejection Becomes So Unbearable You Stay Obsessed

The Limerent Flip: Facing Rejection Becomes So Unbearable You Stay Obsessed

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Limerent obsession with someone you can't have can become more than harmless little fantasy -- especially if they give you signals that there's HOPE. Limerence is basically an addictive tendency…

00:12:49  |   Fri 21 Jul 2023
People Neglected in Childhood Can't See BIG HOLES In New Relationships

People Neglected in Childhood Can't See BIG HOLES In New Relationships

Rather than creating a happy life, people with trauma from childhood wait for the ideal relationship to come along and MAKE them happy. You may catch yourself believing that if you could JUST find th…

00:27:14  |   Wed 19 Jul 2023
Signs You Weren't Listened to As a Child

Signs You Weren't Listened to As a Child

Kids are supposed to learn how to 'be" in the world from their parents. If you were ignored, you had to figure things out by yourself using a child's logic. If you tend to go into a stress response w…

00:17:12  |   Mon 17 Jul 2023
Hyper-Intense Reactions to Stress Damages Relationships; Here's What to Do

Hyper-Intense Reactions to Stress Damages Relationships; Here's What to Do

Abuse, neglect and other traumatic experiences from your past can cause nervous system changes that cause your emotions to come out stronger than other people's. Rage, panic, or passionate attachment…

02:23:40  |   Sun 16 Jul 2023
Why fantasy hurts your ability to form REAL relationships

Why fantasy hurts your ability to form REAL relationships

Magical thinking is a symptom of trauma. It helped you when you were small to imagine a life that was safe and welcoming for you. But if the habit of distorted thinking around romantic relationships …

02:59:34  |   Sun 16 Jul 2023
LIMERENCE: Major Losses Trigger Obsessive Love

LIMERENCE: Major Losses Trigger Obsessive Love

Based on all the hundreds of letters I get – the background stories about abuse and neglect in childhood, and the present day struggles to form loving, committed relationships – it’s clear to me that…

00:16:05  |   Fri 14 Jul 2023
Drama-Free Strategies to Keep Family Members From Ruining Your Day

Drama-Free Strategies to Keep Family Members From Ruining Your Day

Have CPTSD? TAKE THE QUIZ: http://bit.ly/3GhE65z

FREE COURSE: The Daily Practice: http://bit.ly/3X1BrE0

Website: http://bit.ly/3CxgkRY

*** What do you do when you're forced to be face-to-face with…

00:13:26  |   Wed 12 Jul 2023
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