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The Crappy Childhood Fairy Podcast with Anna Runkle

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 Trauma. 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.

Latest episodes

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10 Things Limerent People Tell Themselves (So they Can Keep OBSESSING)

🔴 FREE PDF Signs of Limerence | https://bit.ly/4yE2mbD 🔴 Order My Book CONNECTABILITY | https://bit.ly/4h5xNV7 🔴 Get 15% Off the Nervous System Regulation Device I Use: h

Oct 7
19 min

How to Stop an Argument Before It Gets Out of Control

🔴 Try My FREE DAILY PRACTICE Course | https://bit.ly/4AbNin5 🔴 Learn Measures to Get Re-Regulated NOW | https://bit.ly/3UMv0J3

Oct 5
13 min

Isolating Is a Trauma Symptom — Stop Calling It “Self-Care”

🔴 QUIZ: Has Trauma Affected Your Ability to Connect? | https://bit.ly/4gDDIjZ 🔴 FREE PDF: How "Connectable" Are You? https://bit.ly/46GHyUP 🔴 Order My Book CONNECTABILITY

Oct 3
16 min

How to Love Someone With CPTSD Without Losing Yourself

🔴 FREE PDF: How To Prepare For a GREAT Relationship | https://bit.ly/4qxmtFt 🔴 Try My FREE DAILY PRACTICE Course | https://bit.ly/3SALjrE 🔴 Get 15% Off the Nervous System

Oct 1
20 min

Great Partners Are Looking for These Signs In YOU

🔴 FREE DOWNLOAD: 10 Signs Your Trauma Is Healing | https://bit.ly/4iMifb4 🔴 FREE PDF: How To Prepare For a GREAT Relationship | https://bit.ly/4gE8klm 🔴 Take My DATING CO

Sep 29
13 min

He Showed Up From Her Past Saying "Trust Me" | Then He Did THIS

🔴 FREE PDF: How To Prepare For a GREAT Relationship | https://bit.ly/45UzHCV 🔴 Take My DATING COURSE - Heal Trauma-Driven Patterns | https://bit.ly/4wXl9NC 🔴 Try My FREE

Sep 27
19 min

I Roll My Eyes When People Say "EVERYONE" Has Trauma Now

🔴 Common Adult Signs of Early Trauma: Take the QUIZ | https://bit.ly/4iy4z3p 🔴 FREE PDF: Watch Out For Self-Defeating Behaviors | https://bit.ly/4y6YAXQ 🔴 Get 15% Off the

Sep 25
14 min

What Limerence Is Like, And What It Takes to END IT

🔴 FREE PDF Signs of Limerence | https://bit.ly/3Sf6jnI 🔴 FREE DOWNLOAD: 10 Signs Your Trauma Is Healing | https://bit.ly/3UgZDGk 🔴 Order My Book CONNECTABILITY | https://

Sep 23
22 min

What's Keeping You Stuck Isn't Your Childhood — It's These 5 Habits

🔴 Online Course: CONNECTION BOOTCAMP | https://bit.ly/4xQ9OA1 🔴 Try My FREE DAILY PRACTICE Course | https://bit.ly/3SCZ3SF 🔴 Get 15% Off the Nervous System Regulation Dev

Sep 21
18 min

7 Signs of Nervous System Healing (That Don't Feel Like Healing)

🔴 Get 15% Off the Nervous System Regulation Device I Use: https://bit.ly/4wX1YUq 🔴 Try My FREE DAILY PRACTICE Course | https://bit.ly/3UCII0R 🔴 Learn Measures to Get Re-R

Sep 19
15 min

Blame and Psychological Buzzwords Won't Solve Your Problem

🔴 Online Course HEALING CHILDHOOD PTSD | https://bit.ly/4qvxxmK 🔴 Order My Book RE-REGULATED | https://bit.ly/45xJbUq 🔴 Try My FREE DAILY PRACTICE Course | https://bit.ly

Sep 17
19 min

The Dark Side of "Feeling Your Feelings" | The Bad Advice That Wrecks Your Life

🔴 Try My FREE DAILY PRACTICE Course | https://bit.ly/45TRbzn 🔴 Order My Book RE-REGULATED | https://bit.ly/4x3mt2x 🔴 Get 15% Off the Nervous System Regulation Device I Us

Sep 15
22 min

10 Conversation Tricks That Make People LOVE Talking To You

🔴 How to Be a Better Friend: https://bit.ly/4iaprO3 🔴 Try My FREE DAILY PRACTICE Course | https://bit.ly/4hw7Tf5 🔴 Order My Book CONNECTABILITY | https://bit.ly/4bQPFRS

Sep 2
26 min

How Trauma Gives Evil A WAY IN

🔴 Try My FREE DAILY PRACTICE Course | https://bit.ly/4gvyOqi 🔴 Common Adult Signs of Early Trauma: Take the QUIZ | https://bit.ly/4cIghES 🔴 Get 15% Off the Nervous System

Aug 31
19 min

Seven Things Your Therapist Won't Tell You (But I Will)

🔴 Try My FREE DAILY PRACTICE Course | https://bit.ly/4655AZl 🔴 Order My Book RE-REGULATED | https://bit.ly/3UEWmQY

Aug 29
17 min

5-Question Friendship Gut-Check | To Grow Your Inner Circle

🔴 Order My Book CONNECTABILITY | https://bit.ly/4zoGemT 🔴 How to Be a Better Friend: https://bit.ly/45nN0eT 🔴 Try My FREE DAILY PRACTICE Course | https://bit.ly/3TTPv65

Aug 27
15 min

Why "Understanding" Your Trauma Won't Heal You

🔴 Try My FREE DAILY PRACTICE Course | https://bit.ly/4gaf7TH 🔴 Order My Book RE-REGULATED | https://bit.ly/4gx5508 🔴 FREE PDF: Watch Out For Self-Defeating Behaviors | ht

Aug 25
20 min

You CAN End Romantic Obsession (Even If You Have to See Them Every Week)

🔴 Positive Shared Custody: http://bit.ly/3DvvbNf 🔴 Take My DATING COURSE - Heal Trauma-Driven Patterns | https://bit.ly/45srFRl 🔴 Get 15% Off the Nervous System Regulatio

Aug 23
27 min

Therapy Doesn't OWN Healing

🔴 Article: Who Is Licensure Protecting? https://bit.ly/4wiVvmt 🔴 Try My FREE DAILY PRACTICE Course | https://bit.ly/3UrxXyg 🔴 Want to Support My Work? Become a Member: ht

Aug 20
34 min

The Relationship That Should NEVER Become a Marriage

🔴 Free Download: DATING RED FLAGS | https://bit.ly/4vVzKZK 🔴 Take My DATING COURSE - Heal Trauma-Driven Patterns | https://bit.ly/45uZocM

Aug 18
17 min

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I dove in to this pod over a year ago and listened to dozens of episodes just in the first 3 weeks. I first heard you on Patrick Teahan’s youtube channel and knew there was something that struck me about how you approach the topics you cover and how beautifully and simply you explain the feelings all of us have. I find myself saying mmm hmmm, yep, exactly!!!multiple times while listening, especially to the episode on losing the sixth sense! That one describes my experience throughout my life perfectly, uncannily. It’s truly as if you are in my head but I’m the best way! I finally felt seen in the way I felt after reading ‘Running on Empty’ when I discovered there’s actually a name for what has made me miserable for decades. I want to share that with everyone I’ve had awkward conversation with and tell them- See!! I’m not weird!! I have both of your books and consider this pod to me my survival guide that actually saved me. Thank YOU SO MUCH for the enormous impact you’ve had on my life and for doing this work. Now I need to keep learning and moving closer to loving me. Can’t wait to hear your next episode! Love, Tara

Looney TaraJean · Mar 2026

And still does. I love how she puts the onus back on me to learn, grow and change. To see my patterns. To handle things differently going forward. To make better choices.

Dr_Sus · Feb 2026

Just hearing the intro music calms my nervous system because I know that what’s coming is being seen heard and understood by Anna. Thank you so much for your help

Paralegalvirgo · Sep 2025

By how much you describe my deep thoughts, feelings, and behaviors! I’ve never been able to articulate how I’ve handled my traumatic childhood like this podcast. Now, to heal. Thank you!!

forfssakestfu · Jun 2025

I was initially really impressed and moved by this podcast. It was everything I needed to hear right when I needed to hear it. I was also in an extremely vulnerable place at the time and couldn’t afford more than one session of the type of therapy that could actually help me. So when I received a coupon for Anna’s program, I immediately joined. I thought it would have so much more than what was on the podcast and YouTube but quickly discovered I paid for almost nothing. The only difference between her YouTube channel/podcast (one and the same BTW) and her program are the group Zoom meetings and access to the private FB group. The rest is just a variation on the same themes and advice you hear on the podcast. The only reason I’m giving it 2 stars is because Anna’s program did set me on the right path to healing. But her program is a scam, and there’s a very judgmental / cultist mentality she brings to later podcasts which I can’t, in good conscience, recommend.

zombeesknees · Dec 2024

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