The Crappy Childhood Fairy Podcast with Anna Runkle

The Crappy Childhood Fairy Podcast with Anna Runkle

Hosted by: 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...

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How to Express Anger Without Ruining Everything

When you get angry and people can hear it in your voice? They don’t like it! And you know what? That’s OK! Because in a healthy relationship, it’s OK for you to express your anger. In fact it’s necessary. But it’s all...
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Stop Letting Your Trauma Drive Decision-Making

With unhealed trauma wounds, it's easy to make terrible mistakes at critical moments. Times of stress (which is often when you have to make important decisions) can shut down critical thinking skills, and push you...
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What To Do When You Can't Let Go of The One You Love (4-Video Compilation)

Romantic obsession with someone you can’t have is a sneaky, life-wrecking toxin – a "drug" that feels great at first. It seems like if you could just have that person, your life would go from empty... to amazing. It...
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What to Do When You’re In Love With Someone Who Can Ruin Your Life

Work is the worst place to fall in love with someone you can’t have – or rather, someone with whom you're forbidden to pursue a relationship with. Workplace affairs have the potential to ruin your happiness and theirs...
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The Limits of Empathy in Toxic Relationships

The trouble with being abused is that it can wreck your thinking... You disconnect. You go numb. And when you feel awful inside, you can't always tell where the feeling is coming from. In a dysfunctional family, the...
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Why Doing HARD THINGS Helps You Heal, with Commune Founder Jeff Krasno

Jeff Krasno, the founder and CEO of the global wellness platform Commune Media, thought he was pretty healthy. Though he suffered from brain fog, chronic fatigue, and bouts of insomnia, those symptoms seemed utterly...
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What to Do When You're Ready or Total Transformation (4-video compilation)

So many people are stuck in their CPTSD symptoms. How can you face your trauma symptoms and make REAL changes that last? In this 4-video complication, I share some of my most popular videos about TRANSFORMATION -- how...
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Unhealed Trauma & Poor Boundaries Make Finding The ONE Feel Impossible

When your heart’s desire is to find a love that’s lasting and real, listen to that. This is what you are meant to have. And if you grew up with trauma, what might be blocking you from what you want is unhealed trauma,...
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Childhood Trauma Drives You to ATTACH to People Who Can’t Love You

This is what it feels like to fall for an avoidant: First, there’s a STRONG feeling of connection, like the feeling you knew was possible, and you recognize it like you’ve found home at last. Then you attach quickly,...
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20 Signs That Signal YOU Are Partner Material

It can be HARD to find the right person and form a deep and lasting romantic relationship -- especially if you've had trauma in your past, or you come from a dysfunctional family. If you want to attract real love,...
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Childhood Trauma and Self-Defeating Behavior

Abuse and neglect in childhood can set in motion lifelong trauma symptoms. The people who hurt you are 100% responsible for this harm... it's NOT your fault. It's also true that in adulthood, many of us continue to...
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The Reason They're Pushing You Away Is Not Because They Need Your "Help"

If your attachment style is so anxious and insecure that when your partner pushes you away, and says “I don’t want to be with you anymore,” – YOU hold on tighter than ever – you are stuck in distorted thinking. If...
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