Self-Improvement · 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.
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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
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.
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
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!!
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.
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