when i first learned the facts about early trauma and the way it often affects adults i didn't
know whether to be overjoyed or angry i'm anna runkle also known as the crappy childhood fairy
now i say overjoyed because this new emerging research explained me so precisely the symptoms
i always knew were from trauma and some new ones i had no idea were related to things that
happened to me in the past and that was a relief it means that it's not my fault
but i was angry too because all my life i'd sought help and never never did i get professional help
that made a positive difference more often than not i felt judged i felt misunderstood
and sometimes i left appointments much more scared and sad than when i'd walked in the door
but it turns out just about everything they used to think about trauma and the way that it should
be treated was wrong i wasn't the only one who wasn't helped thousands of people maybe you
who watch this channel have told me the same thing years of therapy grinding them down feeling judged
not helped feeling broken hopeless cutting themselves off from people in a last-ditch
attempt to just handle life with the symptoms we now know are normal for people who went through
what we went through these are symptoms that can it turns out be improved or even healed
and by luck i stumbled into techniques that worked for me they worked so well
in fact that i've made a career of sharing what i learned with other survivors of childhood trauma
and at first i thought i was using some kind of like folk technique
it was like half powered by a pencil half by my own magical thinking and it was just
a fluke that i confided in someone back when i was at my low point in 1994 it was a woman who
had had this amazing recovery from alcoholism it turns out that wasn't my particular problem
but she had also recovered on all other levels because of some techniques that were shown to her
by a stranger so that her techniques got the same results in me i chalked it up to like a spiritual
phenomenon a miracle and i i just sort of put it in that category because there were no other
explanations for how such simple techniques could make any difference at all and it was spiritual
and i still see it that way but when something is true it's going to hold up to scrutiny on
the spiritual level as well as other levels so in 2014 new research came out in particular in
the book the body keeps the score by dr bessel vanderkulk and i'll put the link to that below the
research showed a scientific basis for everything that i was already doing that was helping me
and i've always been a big reader but i was floored when i first read this information to
learn the true causes of childhood ptsd symptoms and then the huge range of problems that flow from
those things i no one had any idea were trauma related but now we know things that we got judged
for things everyone just thought was laziness or willfulness or self-pity or anti-social behavior
they're just common symptoms they're common and we didn't cause them they're not our fault at
all and in fact these symptoms are normal things that follow the experience of childhood abuse and
neglect so all that therapy i did looking at why do i keep making these self-destructive choices
why can't i be happy why do i only ever take two steps forward and then two steps back
of course it didn't work it couldn't work it's not my fault and it's not your fault and it's not the
therapist's fault we didn't know but now we know not all therapists know but it is known and the
more you learn about it the more you're going to be able to access real help and take up techniques
and principles that help you heal and change now you've seen this information in bits and pieces on
my youtube videos and in my courses but last week i released a 25-minute webinar that gives a full
summary in a single video and i'm putting a link to it in the description section below it's free
and i hope you'll watch the whole thing as always i put links after the webinar and below every
video to my courses where you can learn what to do with this information i have courses that you can
choose so if you think at all that you're affected by trauma i'm going to suggest you just watch the
webinar about the myths and realities around childhood trauma and see if it applies to you
now i'm working on a whole set of new programs for you this fall a new course a a big new coaching
program and finally a book that summarizes what i teach kind of a manifesto of my radical principles
along with the techniques and the you know these might fly in the face of everything you've been
taught but i teach you how i recovered and how you can follow in this powerful path whether
or not you have access to good professional help i'll be announcing every program as it is released
and if you want to get in on that be sure that you're subscribed to my channel
and be sure that you're enrolled in something with me on my mailing list
um it could be a course or the membership program or this free webinar i'm sharing with you today
those will all get you on the list and you'll get an announcement but this is what i want
to tell you you can do this all right healing is possible don't let anyone tell you otherwise and
do not give up it's not your fault that you were traumatized as a kid and the great news is
you own your healing and you can start taking steps toward that today in this hour in this
minute even so you can click on things below if you like and i will see you next week