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The Lavendaire Lifestyle

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

The Lavendaire Lifestyle

Aileen Xu

Education, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Spirituality

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

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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Re-regulated Book
Connectability Book

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📹 The video version of this interview is available on YouTube


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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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