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The Crappy Childhood Fairy Podcast with Anna Runkle

Anna Runkle

300 episodes

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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  1. The Polite Habit That Makes People Disrespect You

    · 16 min

    🔴 16 CPTSD Behaviors That Sabotage Your Success: https://bit.ly/47niN0F 🔴 Try My FREE Daily Practice Course: https://bit.ly/4d8dvd7

  2. How Selfish People Gradually Take Over Your Life

    · 17 min

    🔴 10 Things Romantic Manipulators Say: https://bit.ly/4rh6F8M 🔴 Try My FREE Daily Practice Course: https://bit.ly/4rjsogh

  3. You Thought It Was Rejection | It's a BOUNDARY

    · 19 min

    🔴 FREE PDF: Friendship Red Flags: https://bit.ly/477Rmb6 🔴 Try My FREE Daily Practice Course: https://bit.ly/46HqE9b

  4. What I Learned From Watching Thousands of People Try to Heal Their Trauma

    · 14 min

    🔴 10 Signs Your Trauma Is Healing: https://bit.ly/3OLUWRU 🔴 Try My FREE Daily Practice Course: https://bit.ly/4rLSKsj

  5. Why Connection Feels Harder for You Than for Other People

    · 16 min

    🔴 Try My FREE Daily Practice Course: https://bit.ly/47bbCbK 🔴 10 Signs Your Trauma Is Healing: https://bit.ly/4tYIZbC

  6. Limerence is How You Abandon Your Life And Everyone In It

    · 22 min

    🔴 FREE DOWNLOAD "Signs of Limerence": https://bit.ly/3ZZ4XxG 🔴 16 CPTSD Behaviors That Sabotage Your Success: https://bit.ly/4aP1KWd

  7. 10 Signs Someone Truly Belongs in Your Life

    · 14 min

    🔴 FREE PDF: Signs of a Great (Potential) Friend: https://bit.ly/4se9CYD 🔴 How to Be a Better Friend: https://bit.ly/4b8kKQN

  8. What Happens When You Stop Doing Everything for Everyone

    · 12 min

    🔴 Try My FREE Daily Practice Course: https://bit.ly/4tOxumX 🔴 10 Signs Your Trauma Is Healing: https://bit.ly/4tQz6Ne

  9. They Acted Like They Were Into You. Then This Happened…

    · 20 min

    🔴 Is Past Trauma Affecting Your Dating Life? Take the QUIZ: https://bit.ly/4tC76wI 🔴 How To Prepare For a Great Relationship: https://bit.ly/4rnsnbW

  10. Why You’ve Always Felt Separate From Other People

    · 11 min

    🔴 Do you have CPTSD? Take the QUIZ: https://bit.ly/3ZHv8IX 🔴 Heal Isolation and Build Relationships: https://bit.ly/4kDwT3v

  11. You’re Giving Your Power Away (And Don’t Even See It)

    · 11 min

    🔴 FREE PDF: Friendship Red Flags: https://bit.ly/3ZLSX2l 🔴 UNPLUGGED: 10 Days to Get Your Brain Back: https://bit.ly/4s0cb0d

  12. Stop Managing Other People’s Chaos (and See What Happens)

    · 16 min

    🔴 Difficult People in Your Life? Try These NINJA BOUNDARIES: https://bit.ly/4rOiHal 🔴 Order My Book CONNECTABILITY: https://bit.ly/4aIV3Gk

  13. Obsessing on Someone is a Form of AVOIDANCE

    · 29 min

    🔴 FREE DOWNLOAD "Signs of Limerence": https://bit.ly/45R5YuU 🔴 Join My HEALING LIMERENCE Retreat April 10-12 http://bit.ly/3LRNUKd 🔴 Take My DATING COURSE - Heal Trauma-Driven Patterns: https://bit.ly/46nDAR

  14. 6 Sneaky Ways So-Called Friends Try to Make You Feel Ashamed

    · 15 min

    🔴 Free PDF: Friendship RED FLAGS: https://bit.ly/4knRMQ5 🔴 Free PDF: How to Be a BETTER FRIEND: https://bit.ly/4tn1NRJ

  15. It Took Me 20 Years to Stop Confusing Love With THIS

    · 26 min

    🔴 Take My DATING COURSE - Heal Trauma-Driven Patterns: https://bit.ly/3NWHFpg 🔴 Join Me! HEALING LIMERENCE Retreat April 10-12 http://bit.ly/3LRNUKd 🔴 Watch Out For These Dating Red Flags DOWNLOAD WORKSHEET:…

  16. If Someone Does These Things — They Don’t Actually Care

    · 16 min

    🔴 FREE PDF: Friendship Red Flags: https://bit.ly/45O4TE5 🔴 Order My Book CONNECTABILITY: https://bit.ly/4a6CNFl

  17. Overwhelmed, Burned out and Numb? Here’s How I’d Start Healing in 2026

    · 16 min

    🔴 UNPLUGGED: 10 Days to Get Your Brain Back: https://bit.ly/4acZesI 🔴 Try My FREE Daily Practice Course: https://bit.ly/4a88kqG

  18. Magical Thinking Helped You Survive - Now It’s Wrecking Your Life

    · 30 min

    🔴 *HEALING LIMERENCE* Weekend Retreat with Anna (April 10-12): https://bit.ly/49KM9I1 🔴 FREE DOWNLOAD "Signs of Limerence": https://bit.ly/3NCoDV4 🔴 Take My DATING COURSE - Heal Trauma-Driven Patterns:…

  19. Dysregulated, Disconnected, and Drowning in Clutter? Let's Fix That in 2026

    · 18 min

    🔴 UNPLUGGED: 10 Days to Get Your Brain Back https://bit.ly/4t1KUvG 🔴 Try my FREE DAILY PRACTICE Course: https://bit.ly/3Z4x4uK

  20. The Real Reason You Can’t Admit You’re Obsessed

    · 21 min

    🔴 The Signs of Limerence: https://bit.ly/3NAf1tZ 🔴 Join Me! HEALING LIMERENCE Retreat April 10-12 http://bit.ly/3LRNUKd 🔴 Take My Online DATING Course: https://bit.ly/49QXmFU

  21. 10 Truths You Must Recognize To Heal Trauma

    · 19 min

    🔴 Are You Dysregulated? Take the QUIZ: https://bit.ly/49qbjeY 🔴 Watch Out For These Dating Red Flags DOWNLOAD WORKSHEET: https://bit.ly/4pFkQ6E

  22. What Good Men are Attracted To (and What Makes Them RUN)

    · 11 min

    🔴 Is Past Trauma Affecting Your Dating Life? Take the QUIZ: https://bit.ly/4sFTHTI 🔴 How To Prepare For a Great Relationship: https://bit.ly/4bC1WtZ

  23. 1113 - How I Finally Escaped My Trauma-Driven Life - 1.0.mp4

    · 19 min

    🔴 Order My Book RE-REGULATED: https://bit.ly/4purmNA 🔴 Try the FREE Daily Practice Course: https://bit.ly/3Nx3aws

  24. Why Trauma Survivors Keep Falling Into Secret Cults

    · 14 min

    🔴 Take the Quiz. Do You Struggle to Connect with People? https://bit.ly/49GY8WQ 🔴 10 Things Romantic Manipulators Say: https://bit.ly/4ssBM2S

  25. 11 Hidden Traits of People Who Have Survived Extreme Trauma

    · 11 min

    🔴 Is neglect of the past restraining you? https://bit.ly/4atVJ2O 🔴 Try the FREE Daily Practice Course: https://bit.ly/49hUAsX

  26. 7 Tiny Habits That Make You Instantly Magnetic

    · 11 min

    🔴 Is neglect of the past restraining you? https://bit.ly/49bwW1b 🔴 Take the Quiz. Do You Struggle to Connect with People? https://bit.ly/4pTcyJd

  27. 14 Signs You Were Raised by a Toxic Mother

    · 18 min

    🔴 Do you have CPTSD? Take the QUIZ: https://bit.ly/3XuQJmV 🔴 Ten Signs Your Trauma Is Healing: https://bit.ly/3MhZBd4

  28. Shame Stole Your Identity... Here's How to Finally Get It Back.

    · 12 min

    🔴 16 CPTSD Behaviors That Sabotage Your Success: https://bit.ly/4pL381Q 🔴 Try the FREE Daily Practice Course: https://bit.ly/4pgTIeK

  29. 5 Things Every Woman MUST Declutter to Finally Feel FREE Again

    · 18 min

    🔴 Try the FREE Daily Practice Course: https://bit.ly/4auVaWl 🔴 Are You Dysregulated? Take the QUIZ: https://bit.ly/3MetATj

  30. 8 Phrases That Instantly Disarm Narcissists & Bullies

    · 12 min

    🔴 Try the FREE Daily Practice Course: https://bit.ly/3MeCtfz 🔴 Do you have CPTSD? Take the QUIZ: https://bit.ly/3MeEEQm

  31. If They Do This… They’re a Manipulator

    · 11 min

    🔴 Are You Dysregulated? Take the QUIZ: https://bit.ly/3XiGzpj 🔴 Watch Out For These Dating Red Flags DOWNLOAD WORKSHEET: https://bit.ly/4rhArLG

  32. Want More from Someone Who’s Pulling Away? Don’t Chase — Do THIS Instead

    · 14 min

    🔴 Learn Quick Measures to Get Re-Regulated: https://bit.ly/43Mav0P 🔴 Try the FREE Daily Practice Course: https://bit.ly/4oYXCbE

  33. 10 Surprising Habits That Make People Dislike You

    · 14 min

    🔴 Try the FREE Daily Practice Course: https://bit.ly/4oxzRHR 🔴 Order My Book CONNECTABILITY: https://bit.ly/47Hpude

  34. 9 Signs of Emotional Dysregulation

    · 12 min

    🔴 Are You Dysregulated? Take the QUIZ: https://bit.ly/4otl3dn 🔴 My Online Course "Dysregulation Bootcamp": https://bit.ly/43l1rQi

  35. The Uncomfortable Truth About Childhood Trauma Nobody Talks About

    · 11 min

    🔴 Learn Quick Measures to Get Re-Regulated: https://bit.ly/4p1pTyj 🔴 Order My Book RE-REGULATED: https://bit.ly/4oW07eW

  36. The Silent Ways Childhood Neglect Still Controls You

    · 19 min

    🔴 Order My Book RE-REGULATED: https://bit.ly/4nLn3MW 🔴 16 CPTSD Behaviors That Sabotage Your Success: https://bit.ly/4nMWYgC

  37. The WORST Phrases Controlling People Use! (It’s Not Just Narcissists)

    · 13 min

    🔴 Take the Quiz. Do You Struggle to Connect with People? https://bit.ly/4qCaW7D 🔴 Ten Signs Your Trauma Is Healing: https://bit.ly/4omohPR

  38. Why Every Woman Feels Like They Are Never Enough

    · 19 min

    🔴 Do you have CPTSD? Take the QUIZ: https://bit.ly/3WywYKA 🔴 Try the FREE Daily Practice Course: https://bit.ly/47PZayV

  39. No Friends? These 5 Hidden Behaviours Might Be Why...

    · 11 min

    🔴 Are You Dysregulated? Take the QUIZ: https://bit.ly/4hDk0EX 🔴 How to Be a Better Friend: https://bit.ly/3X5rc3j

  40. STOP Trying To Be Calm: How To ACTUALLY Handle Emotional People

    · 14 min

    🔴 Learn Quick Measures to Get Re-Regulated: https://bit.ly/47JqrDa 🔴 My Online Course "Dysregulation Bootcamp": https://bit.ly/4qkpXdY

  41. Why Social Settings Feel So Unsafe (Even When Nothing’s Wrong)

    · 14 min

    🔴 Try the FREE Daily Practice Course: https://bit.ly/3Jh43b0 🔴 Learn Quick Measures to Get Re-Regulated: https://bit.ly/43zgN3x

  42. I'm 62 Years Old. If You're In Your 20s or 30s, Watch This.

    · 16 min

    🔴 How to Tell if Someone is Partner Material? https://bit.ly/4o40owh 🔴 Heal trauma-driven patterns and find real love at last: https://bit.ly/4oaDeVa

  43. What Female Loneliness REALLY Does To Your Brain

    · 12 min

    🔴 Try the FREE Daily Practice Course: https://bit.ly/42Sl3Ln 🔴 Take the Quiz. Do You Struggle to Connect with People? https://bit.ly/4qnVKea

  44. After 30 Years of Trauma Healing, I Can't Stay Silent Anymore...

    · 50 min

    🔴 NEED ONLINE THERAPY? Get 10% BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/CCF 🟢 TRY MY FREE COURSE: The Daily Practice: http://bit.ly/3X1BrE0

  45. 5 Things You MUST Quietly Eliminate From Your Life

    · 18 min

    🔴 Learn Quick Measures to Get Re-Regulated: https://bit.ly/47mOsjg 🔴 16 CPTSD Behaviors That Sabotage Your Success: https://bit.ly/474LY7T

  46. Stuck in a Job You Hate? It’s Not Just Burnout. It’s Trauma.

    · 16 min

    🔴 Heal Trauma in Just One Year? https://bit.ly/4nCOXve 🔴 Try the FREE Daily Practice Course: https://bit.ly/46KhgBZ

  47. Use These Verbal Tricks To Make Aggressive People Sorry

    · 16 min

    🔴 Learn Quick Measures to Get Re-Regulated: https://bit.ly/47g8Keb 🔴 My Online Course "Dysregulation Bootcamp": https://bit.ly/47fZqae

  48. How to Stop Spiraling When Your Brain Won’t Shut Up

    · 25 min

    🔴 Try the FREE Daily Practice Course: https://bit.ly/46Cj9Re 🔴 Learn Quick Measures to Get Re-Regulated: https://bit.ly/4o5ePzH 🔹PRE-ORDER MY NEW BOOK "Connectability": https://bit.ly/4dTK9xz 🔹GET MY BOOK…

  49. 9 Things You Should NEVER Tell Anybody!

    · 16 min

    🔴 Ten Signs Your Trauma Is Healing: https://bit.ly/4gTxZWQ 🔴 Try the FREE Daily Practice Course: https://bit.ly/4obUXet 🔹PRE-ORDER MY NEW BOOK "Connectability": https://bit.ly/4dTK9xz 🔹GET MY BOOK "Re-Regulated" :…

  50. How to Stop Caring What People Think of You

    · 14 min

    🔴 Try the FREE Daily Practice Course: https://bit.ly/4nZfS4m 🔴 Ten Signs Your Trauma Is Healing: https://bit.ly/42ZHT3t *** 🔹PRE-ORDER MY NEW BOOK "Connectability": https://bit.ly/4dTK9xz 🔹GET MY BOOK "Re-Regulated"…

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