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The Crappy Childhood Fairy with Anna Runkle

By: Charlie Deist
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  • 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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    Charlie Deist
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Episodes
  • Do People TRIGGER You? CPTSD and Why We ISOLATE
    Jul 27 2022

    People who grew up with trauma in childhood often have a strong tendency to ISOLATE. One major reason is that interactions with people are TRIGGERING. Here are some of the common reasons people trigger us, with tips on how to CALM triggers and build more CONNECTION and social freedom.


    Find my courses, videos, quizzes and other resources here: https://crappychildhoodfairy.lpages.co/youtube/


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    6 mins
  • Magical Thinking Saved Your Childhood (But NOW It's Ruining Your Life)
    Jul 27 2022

    As a child you developed the ability to use "magical thinking" to cope with abuse and neglect, but NOW, as an adult, it just might be blocking you from ever escaping troubled relationships, finding inner strength, and living a full life. In this video I answer a letter from a woman who endured deep neglect as a child, and has used magical thinking to tolerate rejection and grief as she lives in the house of an ex for who she still has romantic feelings.


    Find my courses, videos, quizzes and other resources here: https://crappychildhoodfairy.lpages.co/youtube/


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    35 mins
  • CPTSD Blinds You To Relationship RED FLAGS
    Jul 27 2022

    The problem with Childhood PTSD is that when we fall in love, the traumatized part of our brain kicks in and hijacks perception, driving us to to cling when it's time to step back, or even run. How can you change your trauma-driven dating patterns, and open the door to real love?


    Find my courses, videos, quizzes and other resources here: https://crappychildhoodfairy.lpages.co/youtube/


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    20 mins

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Runkle is a safe and experienced friend in the vein of Fred Rogers (complement) to the isolated adult child wanting but scared to venture back to the playground and play with others again. Thank you!

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