181 - Healing Childhood PTSD: Emotional Dysregulation, Toxic Relationship Patterns & Limerence w/ The Crappy Childhood Fairy Anna Runkle
Adult Child
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4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
The Crappy Childhood Fairy, Anna Runkle joins us to discuss her newly published book - Re-Regulated: Set Your Life Free from Childhood PTSD and the Trauma-Driven Behaviors That Keep You Stuck. Through her guidance, readers can break out of self-defeating patterns, calm triggers, and move toward a life of growth and healing by providing practical steps to recognize and manage dysregulation.
🔑 Key Takeaways From Episode:
Neurological and Emotional Dysregulation: Discover how stress can impair reasoning and learn practical techniques from Anna to re-regulate your nervous system.
Unhealthy Relationship Patterns: Why the fear of abandonment keeps us stuck in toxic relationships and being attracted to the emotional unavailable
Concept of Limerence—an intense, obsessive form of infatuation often seen in individuals with traumatic pasts.
Building Healthy Relationships: The necessity of getting clear about your relationship goals and setting personal boundaries to avoid toxic relationships.
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| 0:31.3 | Being dysregulated is a problem that can make ordinary things in life ridiculously hard. |
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