295: From Trauma to Connection: Healing Your Nervous System with The Crappy Childhood Fairy

295: From Trauma to Connection: Healing Your Nervous System with The Crappy Childhood Fairy

Author: Aileen Xu December 14, 2025 Duration: 59:40
Have you ever wondered why you feel disconnected from others—even when you're surrounded by people? In this episode, Anna Runkle shares how trauma dysregulates your nervous system, affecting your health, relationships, and ability to feel like you belong. She reveals the simple daily practice that transformed her life and explains why healing your connection wound is the key to finally feeling whole.

Anna Runkle 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. 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. 

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TIMESTAMPS

2:22 Where the Name Came From
12:47 Healing Method
20:46 Why Your Nervous System Is Everything
32:48 How To Support Your Nervous System
36:32 Why Connection Is the Key to Healing
50:58 How to Heal Your Connection Wound
56:58 Final Message: Don’t Give Up

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