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Has childhood abuse, neglect, or trauma impacted you? Today's guest, Anna Runkle, aka Crappy Childhood Fairy, is here to talk about how growing up in an abusive home led to difficulty regulating emotions and relationships and how she learned to practice healthy emotional regulation through her life journey.
Emotional dysregulation often happens after CPTSD because the brain develops adaptive strategies to living in an abusive home strategies like cutting people off, denial, and blowing up that work in the short term in a toxic environment. But these strategies don't work when you're trying to live a healthy and stable life.
Anna teaches how you can learn to regulate your brain and your emotions thought a simple daily practice of grounding and writing. Childhood abuse or neglect doesn't have to define you, and Anna will show you how.

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In therapy I use a combination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Systems Theory, positive psychology, and a biopsychosocial approach to treating mental illness and other challenges we all face in life. The ideas from my videos are frequently adapted from multiple sources. Many of them come from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, especially the work of Steven Hayes, Jason Luoma, and Russ Harris. The sections on stress and the mindbody connection derive from the work of Stephen Porges (the Polyvagal theory), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) Francine Shapiro (EMDR), and Bessel Van Der Kolk. I also rely heavily on the work of the Arbinger institute for my overall understanding of our ability to choose our life's direction.
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