770 Find Your People + Belonging with Anna Runkle

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“If your people don’t know who you are, they can’t find you.” – Anna Runkle

Intro

Discover how childhood trauma and C-PTSD shape our ability to form healthy connections, set boundaries, and rebuild self-trust. In this episode, Anna Runkle, creator of the “Crappy Childhood Fairy,” shares her journey, therapeutic writing tools, and insights from her book Connectability.

We explore emotional regulation, nervous system healing, and how to move from isolation to authentic connections. If you’re interested in self-help and personal growth, this conversation offers guidance for creating deeper, lasting connections after trauma.

Highlights:4:00 Anna’s emotional rags-to-riches origin story5:40 Why now is the time for Anna’s recent book, Connectability13:10 Learning to create less chaos for yourself22:00 The neurological injuries that can be caused by neglect28:00 Rebuilding yourself after complex trauma34:00 Anna’s most challenging boundary struggleConnect with Anna Runkle

Anna Runkle is the author of RE-REGULATED: Re-Regulated: Set Your Life Free from Childhood PTSD and the Trauma-Driven Behaviors That Keep You Stuck, which has been endorsed by a number of experts including #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Nicole LePera. She is the creator of the Crappy Childhood Fairy healing method, a breakthrough approach to help people heal trauma symptoms and change their lives—whether or not they have access to professional help. She has more than a million subscribers 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 trauma symptoms.

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 lives with her husband and two sons in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her new book is Connectability Heal the Hidden Ways You Isolate, Find Your People, and Feel (At Last) Like You Belong. 

Anna’s daily practice: https://courses.crappychildhoodfairy.com/daily-practice

Youtube channel: Crappy Childhood Fairy

Website: crappychildhoodfairy.com

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