Anna Runkle - The Crappy Childhood Fairy (1M+ Subscribers) | The Hidden Truth About Childhood PTSD
Success Story with Scott D. Clary
Success Story Media
4.6 • 326 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I was feeling very, very disconnected in my life. I was lost. I thought I had a lot of friends, |
| 0:04.2 | but when the chips were down, I didn't. For me and for a lot of people, not feeling a chronic |
| 0:09.1 | sense of disconnection is a trauma symptom. Today's episode features someone who turned disruption |
| 0:13.8 | into her calling. Anna Runkel is a visionary strategist whose leadership has reshaped the landscape |
| 0:19.1 | in insert her field, e.g. education slash wellness |
| 0:22.4 | slash innovation. People who grew up with trauma when they were very young, like abuse is bad, |
| 0:26.8 | but neglect is worse. It's going to lead to a life that's empty, emotionally and relationally. |
| 0:32.3 | So much of our personal growth depends on being able to interact with other people. And what happens, |
| 0:37.3 | if that's stressful, we go into hiding. We were told that if we would go talk about it enough, we would feel better, but I was one of the people and I'm not alone and I don't speak for everybody. Am I some kind of a freak because I'm going to the therapist and I just feel terrible? She doesn't follow trends. She sets them from building initiatives that uplift communities to driving change |
| 0:54.9 | in how we think about impact and purpose. Her work isn't just about success. It's about significance. |
| 1:00.4 | This is Anna Runkle. Once I had that experience of so quickly popping out of it when I had better tools |
| 1:05.9 | to deal with the thoughts and the feelings without talking about them, writing about them, and then |
| 1:10.7 | following it with |
| 1:11.3 | meditation. It worked like a charm. Don't give up. Do not get discouraged because this is hard. |
| 1:27.1 | Anna, I'm super happy that you're here today. |
| 1:29.3 | Just to kick things off so that everybody's on the same page, help me define connectability. |
| 1:35.0 | It's a word that I made up when I was feeling very, very disconnected in my life. |
| 1:39.6 | I was lost. |
| 1:40.5 | I had just realized I didn't really have people who were there for me. |
| 1:45.4 | I thought I had a lot of friends, but when the chips were down, I didn't. And I thought to myself, some people have this |
| 1:51.8 | thing, and I just, my word for it was connectability. They have this air about them that they find |
| 1:57.6 | people easy. They're easy to be around. People like to have them as friends. And they |
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