295: From Trauma to Connection: Healing Your Nervous System with The Crappy Childhood Fairy
The Lavendaire Lifestyle
Aileen Xu
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
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
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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| 0:00.0 | When you're having a trauma reaction to something, literally your left front cortex is getting less active, dramatically less active. |
| 0:07.0 | That's where your reasoning is supposed to take place. |
| 0:11.0 | Over here in the right front cortex, your emotions are getting more active. |
| 0:15.2 | So very emotional, less reasoning. |
| 0:18.8 | And I'd say that's what it feels like to be dysregulated. |
| 0:25.3 | Welcome to the Lavenderet Lifestyle, the podcast on personal growth and lifestyle design. |
| 0:30.9 | My name's Eileen, and I'm here to guide you to shine as your brightest self and create |
| 0:35.3 | your dream life. We all have a light within and the |
| 0:38.6 | power to create a life we love. Every Sunday, we'll share thoughtful conversations exploring |
| 0:43.4 | how we can build a better future for ourselves and our world. Life is an art. Make it your |
| 0:49.6 | masterpiece. Hello, my loves. Welcome back to the Lavender Lifestyle podcast. It's Eileen. Today we have a |
| 0:57.1 | beautiful episode for you on healing from our traumas, becoming aware of our dysregulation and connection |
| 1:03.7 | wounds and what we can do to heal them. We talk about how to re-regulate and why is the most |
| 1:10.1 | important thing you can learn to do for |
| 1:11.8 | yourself as it affects your health, relationships, and your entire life as a whole. |
| 1:17.2 | Our special guest today is Anna Runkle. |
| 1:20.0 | Anna Runkle is the creator of the crappy childhood fairy healing method, a breakthrough approach |
| 1:25.1 | to help people heal trauma symptoms and change their lives, |
| 1:28.3 | whether or not they have access to professional help. Her approach includes simple, |
| 1:33.4 | self-directed exercises to calm emotional triggers and neurological dysregulation and to begin |
| 1:39.2 | changing the self-defeating behaviors that are common for people who have lived much of their |
| 1:44.1 | lives dysregulated. Before we dive in, I just want to say, self-defeating behaviors that are common for people who have lived much of their lives |
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