770 Find Your People + Belonging with Anna Runkle
The Terri Cole Show
Terri Cole
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there and welcome with this episode of the Terry Cole Show. I'm so glad that you are here. |
| 0:07.2 | There's had a fascinating conversation with someone who has a very popular YouTube channel called |
| 0:14.9 | Crappy Childhood Fairy. That's what she's known as. So she has almost a million people on YouTube. |
| 0:23.2 | And she is an expert on connection and disconnection. |
| 0:27.2 | She's not a therapist. |
| 0:28.1 | She's not a doctor. |
| 0:30.2 | She is an incredibly informed seeker, is what I would call. |
| 0:36.4 | But her work is really great. And she makes it very accessible for people |
| 0:40.7 | who have complex childhood trauma, right? So see PTSD. So she has a book that just came out two days |
| 0:50.4 | ago called Connectability, heal the hidden ways you isolate, find your people, and feel at |
| 0:56.4 | last like you belong. And so in this conversation with Anna Runkle, we just talked all about what do |
| 1:05.0 | the symptoms look like? How does it feel in your body? What can you do? What are some actions that you can |
| 1:09.8 | take? Just so, I don't know, I was enthralled with everything that she was talking about because I'm obsessed with connectability and relationships and relational patterns. And so it was actually just a great conversation of two people who were obsessed with basically the same thing. But I think that if you're someone who, you know, really wants |
| 1:33.3 | more of a sense of belonging in your life, if you experience childhood trauma, I really think |
| 1:39.7 | that you would like this interview. I hope that you enjoy my talk with Anna as much as I enjoy talking to |
| 1:45.6 | her. This is the Terry Cole show, and as you might have guessed, I'm your host, Terry Cole. |
| 2:01.8 | For over two decades, I've been a licensed psychotherapist, love and boundaries expert, |
| 2:06.5 | and I'm also the founder of The Real Love Revolution and Boundary Boot Camp. |
| 2:10.7 | On this show, I'll bring you simple strategies based on practical psychology, inspiring expert |
| 2:16.2 | interviews, and my own insights and observations from my |
| 2:19.6 | time on the front lines in the fascinating world of entertainment, empowerment, and mental health. |
| 2:25.3 | Now let's get going with today's episode. |
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