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.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 498
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Friendship Skills For People Who Didn't Learn This At Home
Have CPTSD? TAKE THE QUIZ: http://bit.ly/3GhE65z
FREE COURSE: The Daily Practice: http://bit.ly/3X1BrE0
Website: http://bit.ly/3CxgkRY
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If you grew up in a dysfunctional family (especially if y…
How to Heal Your Trauma-Driven Thinking So You Can Make Better Decisions
A history of abuse and neglect in childhood affects how you think, what you believe, and how you act. This is a major factor that explains why people with CPTSD seem to make self-sabotaging decisions…
Why Traumatized People Struggle With Friendships (and How You Can Heal)
Have CPTSD? TAKE THE QUIZ: http://bit.ly/3GhE65z
FREE COURSE: The Daily Practice: http://bit.ly/3X1BrE0
Website: http://bit.ly/3CxgkRY
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It's common for people who grew up emotionally neglected …
Sometimes Your Strength is The Reason They Turn On You
Have CPTSD? TAKE THE QUIZ: http://bit.ly/3GhE65z
FREE COURSE: The Daily Practice: http://bit.ly/3X1BrE0
Website: http://bit.ly/3CxgkRY
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To avoid responsibility for their own actions, abusive pa…
Emotional Dysregulation Ruins Even The Best Relationships
If you grew up neglected, chances are good that when you’re under stress, you get emotionally dysregulated -- your nervous system reacts to stressors with extra strong emotions. When most people woul…
Demoralization: How to Resuscitate The GOOD In You & Recover Faith In The Future
To be “Demoralized” means to be deflated of all that makes you strong – to have too many bad and discouraging things happen to you until you lose your mental clarity, and lose your drive to bring goo…
Crisis-Stage Codependency: How You Know It's Happening
Codependency may feel like a personality quirk but it can grow much, much worse. Codependency can snowball into a crisis-level distortion of thinking that -- unless you heal -- drags down your life (…
Anxious Attachment Style: Overcome Your Urge to MERGE and CLING in Early Relationships
People neglected or abandoned in childhood often have an anxious attachment style in adulthood, growing frantic while dating a new person to extract security and connection, before they get to know t…
Narcissistic Traits vs. 'REAL' Narcissism
Many people traumatized as children show TRAITS of narcissism. Part if this is learned from narcissistic parents, and part develops to compensate for trauma wounds. In this "best of" compilation I br…
Heal Your Avoidant Attachment Style Before It Drains Your Life of Love and Meaning
People are triggering, especially if you who were traumatized in the past. One way to manage your triggers is through avoidance -- living in isolation, holding loved ones at arms length, or going thr…
Heal Chaos and Overwhelm: DECLUTTER Every Part of Your Life
A cluttered living space is one common sign a person has been affected by past trauma. But Complex-PTSD often manifests as a similar kind of chaos and overwhelm in your thinking, your relationships, …
The EMPTINESS You Feel Is Trying to TELL YOU Something
I received several letters this week (the fifth week of lockdown) about the ache of emptiness that's getting hard to escape. Is real love even possible for people with CPTSD? Here's my answer.
Take m…
Brain Dysregulation: How to Know If It's Happening (and What to Do About It)
Adults who experienced early trauma are prone to dysregulation of the brain and nervous system, especially in response to stress. Dysregulation, in turn, can trigger (or exacerbate) depression, anxie…
Trauma Wounds FLARE UP When You Begin Dating (Especially When They're Wonderful)
When you meet someone really wonderful, do you fall into consuming anxiety about whether it will work out -- to the extent that it damages any hope of having a relationship? This is not uncommon, and…
Trauma Is a Multiplier for Isolation & Loneliness: Here's What to Do
In the post-pandemic age of the internet, more people than ever are isolated and LONELY. People who have lived through trauma, especially in childhood, may have suffered neurological changes that mak…
Do You Procrastinate MORE Than Most People? Here's What to Do
Getting things done is a HUGE problem for many people, especially with the neurological effects of trauma complicating your ability to focus, to maintain consistent energy levels, and to handle emoti…
These Triggers Are “The Tell” That You were Neglected and Ostracized As a Child
Abandonment triggers can get activated when you feel rejected, overlooked, left behind and ostracized: If you grew up physically or emotionally neglected, abandonment wounds may damage relationships …
Once Paralyzed By Fear, It's time to Reactivate Your REAL SELF Now!
As a child you developed coping mechanisms to tolerate abuse and still keep your precious spirit intact. People with Childhood PTSD often internalize the hateful messages they received, and struggle …
If You Struggle To Maintain Good Relationships, THIS Is why
In this "best of" compilation of earlier episodes, I teach about the ways Childhood PTSD and CPTSD can disrupt your ability to find, grow and maintain good relationships. Sit back and enjoy!
Take my …
Healing Past Trauma Is How You End the Evil Cycle & Shine GOODNESS On All
When destructive people harm children, they literally introduce evil into those children's lives. Unless trauma is healed, this evil -- this harm -- is very likely to be passed from person to person,…