Best Anna Runkle Podcasts (2024)

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Trauma Wounds Trigger Dissociation and "Flight" When You’re Loved 12:22

5m ago12:22

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Imagine finally finding someone who loves you as you are. And after so many painful attempts to find love, THIS person is right by your side and wants to be with you. So what is it in people who grew up with trauma, that the presence of someone THIS good, can shut you down, and make things feel "not real"? In this video I respond to a letter from a…

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Lessons From The Crappy Childhood Fairy with Anna Runkle 54:53

14d ago54:53

54:53

Did you have a crappy childhood? No, not just that you didn’t get that doll you wanted at the store when you were 5—I’m talking serious stuff. Anna Runkle is the Crappy Childhood Fairy; she shares her story of childhood trauma coming from a commune style home filled with alcohol and hard drugs. She outlines what exactly defines childhood trauma; ph…

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How Trauma Bonds Wreck Your Mental Health 18:37

35m ago18:37

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Even rats will get obsessed if you alternate kindness with abuse. So it isn’t any wonder that people who grew up with trauma would have a tendency to fall in love even HARDER when the people who say they love you suddenly kick you out the door. Non-traumatized people recognize this as abuse by an unstable and selfish person. In this video I respond…

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Building Muscle On A Plant Based Diet with Nimai Delgado 52:18

3h ago52:18

52:18

This episode is going to crush every stereotype you’ve ever had about *meathead* bodybuilders. We’ve got goals, we’ve got grit, and we even have some woo-woo shit. Nimai Delgado is a plant-based professional bodybuilder (and so much more). He shares his unique upbringing, which actually led him to be a lacto-vegetarian from birth until he became ve…

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Here are Signs No One Listened To You in Childhood 19:52

1h ago19:52

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Children normally learn to handle themselves in the world from their parents. If you were ignored, you had to figure things out by yourself using a child's logic. In adulthood, you may find yourself going into a stress response when you try to communicate, especially when expressing emotions, or setting boundaries. This cold be a sign you weren't l…

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Free Yourself From Your Family's Dysfunction (4-Video Compilation) 1:28:02

39m ago1:28:02

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If you were born to sick people who neglect you, exclude you, and they couldn't give you proper care or protect you from harm, it was only natural for you to feel as a child that your family's shame was yours too. In this four-video compilation, I share four of my most popular videos about the harms that come from growing up in dysfunctional famili…

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If Love Is What You Want, Here’s What to Do Differently 13:50

22h ago13:50

13:50

When someone writes to me and says “I’m dating this guy,” I learned to understand that “DATING” for some people means “just having sex.” No friendship, no commitment, no talking about real things, no helping each other through tough times JUST. SEX. So it breaks my heart when someone with the ordinary understanding of dating gets walked all over by…

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Childhood Trauma, Lost Identity and RAGE 35:00

3d ago35:00

35:00

People who were neglected in childhood often turn out with a false identity that they were pressured into by parents who couldn’t see who they were AT ALL. This a pattern I’ve come to recognize in hundreds of letters I receive. There’s a developmental delay, almost, in forming a sense of self – of knowing your preferences, what make you make happy,…

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Change Your Personality, Change Everything with Shannon Sauer-Zavala 44:40

7d ago44:40

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Do you have a goal to climb a mountain but... your day to day looks more like watching tv from the couch? Listen, it turns out you can shift your personality to actually become the person who can reach these really awesome high goals we set for ourselves. Shannon Sauer-Zavala is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, and she works with people to actuall…

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Watch This And Find Out How Far You've Come (Further Than You Think!) 11:34

5d ago11:34

11:34

Watching videos about trauma can take you down a rabbit hole of bad memories, scary diagnoses, and fears and doubts about whether life will better for you. Chances are, you’re ALREADY getting better, and in this video I teach you the signs that your healing may be well underway. Watch this and soak up validation and encouragement for all the hard w…

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How To Stay Sane When You Fall In Love (4-video Compilation) 1:00:10

6d ago1:00:10

1:00:10

Nothing ruins new love like an agenda. If you grew up with trauma, you may end up romantically attached to people before you've gotten to know them, but there's a better way to date! In this four-video compilation, I share four of my most popular videos for people with CPTSD who want to change trauma-driven dating patterns and find real love at las…

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Obsessive Love Can Cross The Line Into Dangerous Delusion 20:30

8d ago20:30

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I get letters from people who claim to want to heal from limerence – which is an addiction-level romantic obsession with someone who doesn’t want to be with you. But sometimes, the letter itself feels toxic to me – like they want to tell me about their limerence and PRETEND they want help, when what they really want to is to tell anyone who will li…

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Unhealed Disorganized Attachment Triggers Emotional Abuse 16:15

10d ago16:15

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A Disorganized Attachment style is a trauma wound that can drive you to LONG for love and then push it away again and again, every time you feel irritated, or vulnerable, or disappointed. Childhood trauma is almost always the cause of this, and THAT wasn’t your fault. But when you need to manage your well being by constantly breaking up with someon…

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Do This to Lift Your Mood Immediately 26:08

12d ago26:08

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Life will always have hardships, but everything you do to improve your life will run aground unless you know how to also lift your mood. It's not just happy talk. In this video I teach actions you can take right away to start feeling better, and to gradually change your life. Eleven Strategies to Feel Happier Today: FREE PDF Download: https://bit.l…

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Yes, Anger Can Be Healthy But NOT Like This (4-Video Compilation) 1:30:20

13d ago1:30:20

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** Anger is a natural emotion. It exists to activate you in the face of danger, and as a response to unjust treatment. Anger is healthy... unless it gets stuck in a loop and can't be processed into either action, or memory. In this 4-video compilation, I share some of my most popular videos on the proper role of anger in our lives, and how unchecke…

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Happiness Begins When You Know What You're Here For 17:26

15d ago17:26

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Everyone longs to live a purposeful life. You need intuition and persistence to discover what you're here to do, but childhood trauma can block this awareness, and keep you feeling trapped and unable to find your purpose. In this video I respond to a letter from someone who feels lost; hear my advice for steps to take to find and live your life's p…

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People Who KNOW They're Inflicting Emotional Damage Need to Hear THIS 18:16

17d ago18:16

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There's an urban legend out there that if you think you might be a narcissist, you're not a narcissist. Many people display narcissistic behaviors at times, and are wise to be aware and work on that. But in this video, I share I letter from a man who believes he's a narcissist and almost sounds like he wants to stop hurting others. Is he trying to …

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Don't Fall Prey to Wellness Industry Bullshit with Michael Ulloa and Kate Lyman 47:46

21d ago47:46

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Love fat shaming, coffee enemas, and jade vagina eggs? This episode is not for you! Michael Ulloa and Kate Lyman are personal trainers, nutrition coaches, and hosts of the podcast How To: Fitness. They’re on a mission to debunk and throw red flags at all the bullshit you see from *wellness influencers* and other toxic entities in the fitness world.…

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The Real Reason It's So Hard to Recover from Childhood PTSD 23:54

20d ago23:54

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Abuse and neglect in childhood can set in motion lifelong trauma symptoms. The people who hurt you are 100% responsible for this harm, and it's good if you can acknowledge that it's not your fault. It's also true that in adulthood, many of us continue to retraumatize ourselves with what I call "self-defeating behaviors." These are the habits and te…

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Focusing Too Much on Others Damages Your Life (4-Video Compilation) 1:48:41

21d ago1:48:41

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Many people misunderstand what codependency actually is -- a compulsion to donate all your focus to another person's life, and then to try to control them and extract your happiness from the hope that THEY will change. In this compilation, I share four of my most popular videos about codependency and the ways people with trauma are particularly vul…

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How Casual Sex TRICKS YOUR MIND 12:46

23d ago12:46

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Here’s something I WISH I had known when I was younger, so YOU can avoid some of the mistakes I made that cost me years of happiness. Casual sex sounds like it’s ordinary and fun and not a problem, and evidently that’s true for a lot of people. But if you have attachment wounds (and this is especially for young women) the emotional bonding that sex…

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The Constant Push/Pull of Their Affection Grinds You Down 15:15

25d ago15:15

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Healthy people run screaming from avoidant partners. But there’s something about neglect in childhood that primes you to fall harder for someone when they constantly pull you in and then push you away. At first see it, and it gives you pause. But if you stay with them, and you keep hoping that THIS time will be different, your thinking and percepti…

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Design Your Life With Intention with Tracy Harris 52:18

28d ago52:18

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Do you have a vision for your life? Are you living it? Tracy Harris was NOT as a new mother; she was struggling with finding herself in her previous role of teaching (even though she previously loved it), leading her to a major lifestyle shift. She’s a podcaster and female entrepreneur, helping ‘mums’ find their hustle. (the good kind of hustle, th…

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The "Upper Limit Problem" Hits When You're Taking Big Steps UP 16:04

1M ago16:04

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It's hard to explain, but just when you're accomplishing positive things in your life, obstacles and discouragement appear your path in the form of criticisms, attempts to stop your work, and self-sabotage from within. Author Gay Hendricks calls this "the upper limit problem." I call it "the nefarious force": Those of us with CPTSD seem especially …

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If It Doesn't Help You Re-Regulate, It Probably Won't Help (4-Video Compilation) 1:10:49

28d ago1:10:49

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We now know there's an underlying trauma symptom that drives almost all the others: Neurological dysregulation. And until you learn to notice it and get re-regulated, it can hold you back and complicate every part of your life. In this four-video compilation I share four of my most popular videos on dysregulation. Order My New Book, RE-REGULATED: h…

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CPTSD Partners Only Change When THIS Happens 17:35

1M ago17:35

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Anyone with CPTSD can admit (if we're honest) that our symptoms can be VERY hard on those who love us. We lash out and become emotionally dysregulated, and we sometimes mistakenly believe that others are CAUSING us to to feel the massive waves of anger and and grief that come welling up from the wounds of the past. Healing work helps us gain clarit…

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Limerence For Someone Who Rejected You IS a Form of Avoidance 26:10

1M ago26:10

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Your mind plays tricks on you when you fall in love with a long-distance loner who says flat out they don’t want a relationship. This absent character, present only as an electronic voice or a digital image but never as a real person at your side who loves you -- ican be the perfect blank canvas for lament fantasies. “If only we could be together…”…

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To Get Jennifer Aniston's Body do THIS (4 things) 14:25

1M ago14:25

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This is the tell all episode on how YOU can get Jennifer Aniston’s body. Spoiler, it’s actually not the hot tips and secret advice you’re thinking. It’s actually pretty standard, boring, fitness advice. "I drink a lot of water, move my body daily, try to eat whole, fresh foods, and get as much sleep as I can." - Jennifer Aniston, People Magazine WO…

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Don't Let Childhood Trauma Define Who You Are 16:32

1M ago16:32

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There’s a big mistake that people who were traumatized as kids make when they’re trying to heal, and unfortunately it can stop your progress. When you're working on healing, there’s a temptation to “identify” as a traumatized person, and focus heavily on what happened to you, how it's harmed you, and what the diagnoses might be of the people who hu…

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Here's What It Really Takes to Find a Match (4-Video Compilation) 1:07:23

1M ago1:07:23

1:07:23

Trauma during childhood can damage your powers of discernment, leaving you vulnerable to choosing immature, unavailable, and even abusive partners who drag your life down. How can you override the limitations of CPTSD, to choose a good partner, and work out the inevitable bumps in the road? In this four-video compilation I shsare some of my most po…

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How to Tell Your Friend They are Driving You Crazy 31:28

1M ago31:28

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Sometimes close friendships fall apart, and even though you try to work on them and accommodate the other person’s quirks, their behavior drives you nuts. You try talking about it, but it only leads to conflicts. You try ignoring the problem but it only gets worse. So then what do you do? In this video I respond to a letter from a woman who can't t…

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Your Boundaries Get Foggy When You’re Grieving and Lonely 16:22

2M ago16:22

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People with Childhood PTSD in the past often become uncertain of themselves, confusing behaviors that LOOK like love with the real thing, and then finding themselves entangled with manipulative people who want to take their energy. In this video I respond to a letter from a woman who has given her emotional energy to someone who isn't giving what t…

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Growing Up In A Doomsday Cult (while Black) with LaNisa Frederick 41:33

1M ago41:33

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Let’s have a light chat about cults with LaNisa Frederick. She’s an award-winning actor, writer, content creator, voiceover artist and black survivor of Doomsday Cult, WorldWide Church of God. Let’s get the lay of the land. What exactly is a cult? You might find isolation, charismatic leaders, financial arrest, and consequences for leaving, but LaN…

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For Healing Trauma, Venting Your Rage is Overrated 14:58

2M ago14:58

14:58

If you had childhood trauma, and you’ve sought help for the problems it’s caused you in your life, you may have been told that you needed to get in touch with your ANGER to heal. If you've been suppressing your rage, venting anger can feel great... at first. But for many people with Childhood PTSD, getting pushed to go deeper into anger can be a da…

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Heal Your Anxious Attachment Style (4-Video Compilation) 1:42:47

2M ago1:42:47

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When you need love desperately, it's easy to fill in the gaps and attach to people who turn out NOT to have love to give, and this in turn can activate your CPTSD symptoms. This is one of the ways an "anxious attachment" style can sabotage your trauma healing work. In this four video compiliation, I share some of my most popular videos on anxious a…

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Can An Emotional Affair Become The Real Thing? 9:32

2M ago9:32

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Past trauma has a funny way of driving us into the worst kinds of relationships. A warm body or a diamond ring can feel like a little island of respite from the ocean of fear, shame and loneliness that often overwhelm's people with Childhood PTSD. So what happens when you wake up after the wedding and discover that real love is nowhere insight – or…

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Don't Let Trauma Keep You Stumbling Through Life 16:29

2M ago16:29

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Even if you grew up in a neglectful or abusive household, it’s not too late to create a vision for what you want in your life, and what you want in a relationship. Too often, those of us with CPTSD cast around for a partner with no clear sense of what would be good for US. We’re driven by how partners see us, and how they feel about us, focusing en…

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Back Away From The Booze with Ruari Fairbairns 54:56

2M ago54:56

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Have you ever had a whispering voice in the back of your mind *alcohol is holding you back*? Maybe the amount you consume on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis contributes to your answer. Like, hey, I’m a mom, and I need my one glass of wine at the end of the week. Okay, fair enough, but what if I told you that even that habit shows alcohol is holdi…

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"Emotional Sobriety" Makes Trauma Healing Faster and More Sustainable 16:54

2M ago16:54

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While many people think the goal of healing is to feel MORE of your feelings, people with Childhood PTSD more often need emotional self-regulation. There are short-term strategies and changes you can make in your life that make it easier to stay emotionally steady. If strong emotions hurt your relationships, "Emotional sobriety" is a way of life th…

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Don't Waste More Time on Trauma Healing That's Not Working for You 1:53:07

2M ago1:53:07

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If you're living with the effects of Childhood PTSD, you've probably had to work extra hard to accomplish things that come easily to non-traumatized people. But everything gets better when you find an approach to healing that works for YOU. It can take trial and error to find effective treatment, but don't give up! In this 4-video compilation, I sh…

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Blame-y Apologies Are Worse Than No Apology 20:29

2M ago20:29

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If you’ve struggled in your life with self esteem, or making good friends, chances are good that there are some damaged and dysfunctional relationships in your past. If you’re like many of us with CPTSD, you may feel confused about whether you owe an apology. Apologies can be healing for them AND for you -- IF you get them right. In this video I re…

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It Doesn't Involve Sex, But It's Still a Secret 17:14

2M ago17:14

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An emotional affair is a relationship where a person already in a marriage or committed relationship has a secret life with another person, that isn’t exactly sexual, but it’s highly charged with romance. Charged enough that both parties hide and lie about what’s going on. In this video I respond to a letter from a woman who is keeping her relation…

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How Not To Age with Dr. Michael Greger 35:45

2M ago35:45

35:45

This is one of those moments where I am jumping up and down like a giddy teenager. I got to interview Dr. Michael Greger, a physician and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition. You’ve probably read or heard of his books, How Not to Die and How Not to Diet but today we’re talking about How Not Age. (Ummm, aging is inevitable, right? Maybe …

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Watch Out For These CPTSD Beliefs That Ruin Relationships 15:42

2M ago15:42

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The problem with growing up with neglect and abuse is that it can drive your thinking, constrict what you believe is possible for your life, and make you see only what is ugly in the world. These are what I call trauma-driven beliefs. I can often predict who in my programs is going to make tremendous progress quickly, and start changing their lives…

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Trying to Please Others Makes NO ONE Happy (4-Video Compilation) 1:22:13

2M ago1:22:13

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If you grew up with an abusive or neglectful parent – and especially if you were the oldest child -- you may have learned to dance around and do everything in your power to make Mom stop being sad. You may have erased your feelings and needs and instead poured ALL YOUR ENERGY into the parent. People who have done this often have a hard time getting…

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Why It's So Hard to Face Reality About People Destroying Your Life 22:07

2M ago22:07

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There’s this strange thing that happens to families when one member falls into destructive addiction. We know that addicts’ thinking gets distorted, and they fall into denial and lying and blaming and sometimes stealing. That’s what you’d expect. But, as I know so well from bitter experience, the “presumably sane” people who LOVE the addict ALSO su…

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No Sense of Self Comes From Childhood Neglect 20:02

2M ago20:02

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A chaotic and neglectful family life can deprive a child of forming an identity – not just who they are, but what they like, and what they might like to pursue in their lives. In adulthood, you may try to fill this empty space with relationships – or rather, the IDEA of a relationship – to give you direction and a sense that your life matters, and …

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Healthy Habits For ADHD Women 42:39

2M ago42:39

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Imagine my surprise when I found my name at the center of a heated discussion on Reddit and it wasn't in the Super Healthy Hot Babes forum. No. It was the ADHD Women forum. What?? My tips for a healthy habit loop sat at the top of a thread, and the responses? Women in tears, angry, and ready to throw fists. Listen, I think they had every reason to …

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CPTSD and The Curse of Loneliness: How to Heal 13:25

2M ago13:25

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There’s a symptom of trauma that is common in everyone, but it’s almost universal for people who were abused or neglected as children. It's a haunting sense of loneliness, and not fitting in, that can make any effort to connect with people extra stressful. This is not just an emotional hurt. Abuse and neglect caused an injury to your ability to con…

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Heal These Trauma Wounds and Watch Your Productivity Soar 49:18

2M ago49:18

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Have you ever struggled to get even basic things done, like get to work on time, put wet laundry in the dryer, or make a phone call? Everyone procrastinates sometimes, but for people who were abused or neglected in childhood, procrastination can take over your life and hold you back. In this four-video compilation I share some of my most powerful v…

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