1184: Guest Anna Runkle: The Crappy Childhood Fairy Part 2
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Gina continues her conversation with Anna Runkle, the Crappy Childhood Fairy. Learn more about how to reregulate your nervous system. In particular, Anna shares one of her most favorite tools: writing. Listen in and gain knowledge about how to use your ability to write to help calm your nervous system and return to a centered place of peace and calm.
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Chapters
0:26 Introduction to Anxiety Coaches Podcast
1:10 Understanding Dysregulation
4:49 The Importance of Regulation Techniques
7:01 Simple Activities for Re-regulation
8:58 Personal Stories of Dysregulation
10:53 The Role of Writing in Healing
15:17 Therapeutic Writing Practices
16:13 Spiritual Aspects of Writing
19:00 Navigating Trauma and Resentment
21:04 Conclusion and Next Steps
Summary
In this episode of the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, I continue my engaging conversation with Anna Runkle, also known as the Crappy Childhood Fairy. We're delving into the essential topic of emotional dysregulation—a common challenge for many, especially those who have experienced trauma or anxiety. I emphasize that it's normal to encounter dysregulation, but for individuals with a traumatic background, it can be more frequent and intense, often making it feel insurmountable. We discuss practical signs of dysregulation that listeners might recognize in themselves, such as feeling disconnected from their environment, losing track of time, or experiencing an inability to make sound judgment.
As we navigate through these concepts, Anna shares her experiences and insights on identifying dysregulation. She articulates how feelings of frustration manifest in everyday situations, like tripping over things or struggling with routine tasks, emphasizing that these occurrences can stem from deeper emotional turmoil. Through her personal anecdotes, I highlight the crucial distinction between healthy emotional responses and those that lead to self-sabotage, cautioning listeners to avoid making life-altering decisions when in a dysregulated state.
We also explore collective healing practices, such as movement and group activities, that can serve as forms of re-regulation. Anna discusses how these practices, whether through something as structured as military drills or as playful as community dancing, can help restore a sense of calm and connection among individuals. She emphasizes that nature also plays a vital role, and simple habits like taking walks or gardening can significantly aid in grounding oneself and rebuilding that much-needed attunement to our surroundings.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the anxiety coaches podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore anxiety, panic, and PTSD, sharing how you can overcome them for life. |
| 0:23.1 | Aloha. |
| 0:24.2 | Welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches podcast. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm your host and coach, Gina Ryan, and I am so happy to be with you again today |
| 0:34.0 | as together we can consider the many ways to bring your mind and body back to its |
| 0:40.5 | natural peace and calm. Welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches podcast. If you're tuning in today, |
| 0:48.0 | you're here for part two of my fascinating conversation with Anna Runkle, the crappy childhood fairy. If you missed the |
| 0:57.9 | earlier episodes with Anna, I highly recommend listening to it before diving into this episode. |
| 1:05.9 | It's packed with incredible insights that you won't want to miss. |
| 1:17.5 | Now, I was looking over here at some of the questions that I could ask you, and I wanted to ask you exactly for my people that are listening, what is dysregulation and maybe some |
| 1:23.8 | signs of it, so they might be able to say, oh, I start to identify with it. |
| 1:28.3 | And maybe it would connect them with being able to read your book and find out more. |
| 1:33.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:33.9 | Well, everybody gets dysregulated sometimes. |
| 1:37.3 | Virtually everyone eventually will re-regulate. |
| 1:40.3 | But those of us with trauma or harsh anxiety will get dysregulated more of the time. And it'll be harder to get out of. It'll last longer. It can be more intense than what you see other people experiencing. And so these are some of the symptoms. Some of them you can feel. Some of them you can't. Some of the most obvious things that you feel when it's happening are you feel discombobulated or just kind of like frustrated like I'm dropping everything. I keep bumping into things. I open the drawer and hit myself in the knee. My relationship to my physical environment is just off. And in fact, that is part of dysregulation. Or you're losing |
| 2:20.6 | track of time, or you're losing track of when it's time to sleep or time to wake up. You're |
| 2:26.2 | losing track of when it's time to eat and when it's not time to eat. Like that gets very |
| 2:31.5 | dysregulated for a lot of us. We're eating too much or not enough |
| 2:34.8 | or just kind of all at once and not being able to handle it and then, you know, starving all day. |
| 2:40.2 | There's these outward functions that are going odd. Sometimes you get numb. I'm very lucky. One of my |
| 2:46.0 | symptoms is my nose feels numb, which is a very obvious sign. So if my nose is numb, that's often like a little |
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