The Hidden Ways You Isolate

Steps For Healing Social Avoidance and Creating a Life You Love

A 90-Min Zoom Webinar

with Anna Runkle

Many of us who grew up with trauma find it hard to feel connected with other people. It can feel like the disconnection is caused entirely by other people, and by the social rejection, abuse or bullying to which they’ve subjected us, but there are dozens of ways we may not realize that we pull away too. We go through the motions of a connected life, but we hold people at arm’s length. We keep conversations superficial, we accept invitations but then cancel at the last minute, and we postpone doing things that give us joy until some future day when (we believe) life will feel easier. This is what I call “covert avoidance.”

We want to feel supported and close to our friends and loved ones, but with unhealed trauma wounds, social interactions can feel so stressful and overwhelming, we become unconsciously motivated to isolate. People may not notice we do it, but the hidden ways we isolate will gradually push them away, leaving us feeling empty and alone. Luckily, you can heal this.

In this webinar I’ll talk about the ways trauma in your past may be triggering avoidant behaviors in you, even when you crave connection with others. I’ll show you how to recognize when it’s happening, and teach you steps you can take to step gently back into the connected life where you belong.

Price: $45

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**The ways you hold people at arm's length aren't always visible, not even to you. You can learn to change this.**

Discover the role of early trauma in driving avoidant tendencies that keep you isolated.

Learn how changes in brain development can make socializing feel so overwhelming, you become unconsciously motivated to withdraw.

I'll teach you practical ways to manage the stress you feel around other people

You'll learn gentle series of actions to pace yourself and hold your boundaries, freeing you to enjoy people and create a life you love.

Q&A time with me

We'll reserve plenty of time when I can take your questions, and clarify points in the webinar.

Meet Anna Runkle

Anna Runkle leads a movement to help people worldwide to heal trauma symptoms and change their lives -- whether or not they have access to professional help. More than a million people subscribe to her YouTube channel, blog, courses and coaching programs, where she teaches the principles and techniques she has used to recover from her own Childhood PTSD symptoms. Anna is not a therapist or doctor. Rather, her approach includes simple, self-directed exercises to calm emotional triggers and neurological dysregulation, and to begin changing the self-defeating behaviors that are common for people who have lived much of their lives dysregulated. She is the author of the book Re-Regulated: Set Your Life Free from Childhood PTSD and the Trauma-Driven Behaviors That Keep You Stuck (Hay House, October 2024).