Let’s Break the Silence of Disconnection Together
© 2025 Hay House LLC | All Rights Reserved
Hay House: Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Contact Us
Meet Anna Runkle
Best known as “The Crappy Childhood Fairy,” Anna Runkle is the creator of the popular YouTube channel, blog, courses, and coaching programs that provide practical tools for adults to heal dysregulation and other common trauma symptoms, and to begin feeling better and changing their lives in everyday ways. Anna is not a therapist or doctor. Her methods were developed through research, her mentoring of hundreds of individuals over the years, and her direct experience healing her own symptoms of early trauma. With more than a million subscribers across YouTube and social media platforms, she is the author of Re-Regulated: Set Your Life Free from Childhood PTSD and the Trauma-Driven Behaviors That Keep You Stuck (Hay House, 2024) and Connectability: Heal the Hidden Ways You Isolate, Find Your People, and Feel (At Last) Like You Belong (Hay House, 2025).
Meet Alex Howard
Alex Howard is the CEO of the Alex Howard Group, an international group of businesses including the Optimum Health Clinic, Conscious Life, the RESET Program, and professional training programs in Therapeutic Coaching and Nutrition. Like Anna, Alex overcame the symptoms of his own past trauma and now helps people heal the emotional defenses and avoidance that keep them from connection. More than 1 million people have attended his online Super Conference series, and his books — Why Me?, Decode Your Fatigue, and It’s Not Your Fault — offer practical tools for recovery. He’s also the creator of the popular YouTube series In Therapy with Alex Howard, where he documents real-life therapeutic work. At this event, Anna will ask Alex how stress, dysregulation, and disconnection intertwine — and his best tips for opening your life to more connection.
If you’ve ever felt left out, overlooked, or like you never seem to belong, this event will show you that connection isn’t out of reach.
With small steps and new awareness, you can heal the hidden ways you isolate and open the door to real, meaningful relationships.
- Calm your nervous system and awaken your attunement to yourself to others
- Drop the old patterns that keep you isolated and lonely.
- Show up with confidence, boundaries, and trust in yourself.
- Create friendships and belonging that finally feel like home.
This Is Where the Pattern Ends—And Real Belonging Begins
No more just getting through the day or telling yourself you’re broken, because you’ll finally have the tools to feel confident, calm, and connectable.
Leave Loneliness Behind and Become More Connectable
Better known as the Crappy Childhood Fairy, Anna Runkle has helped over a million people worldwide heal the effects of trauma through her YouTube channel, courses, and community.
She grew up in a home marked by addiction, violence, and neglect. By her twenties, the fallout was running her life: anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and a string of broken relationships that left her isolated and convinced she was “cursed” to be alone—until she discovered how to re-regulate her nervous system and then develop what she calls connectability.
Connectability is the word Anna uses to define the “air” that some people seem to have around them—a kind of grace, confidence, and openness that makes other people want to be around them…that makes them a joy to have as friends.
Now, she shares the same tools she used—showing others that connectability is a skill you can learn, no matter what’s happened in your past.
Move from disconnection to connection with simple, practical steps—trusting your instincts, setting healthy boundaries, and creating the lasting friendships.
Get to the true source of loneliness and why belonging matters now more than ever—while learning the confidence skills of small talk, listening, and “reading the room.”
See why so many of us feel disconnected, no matter what’s happening around us—and spot the “covert avoidance” patterns that quietly sabotage relationships.
Uncover the sneaky ways trauma fuels isolation and chronic loneliness—then calm your nervous system so social situations don’t send you spiraling.
You’ll also take part in an interactive exercise to reflect on your own patterns and have the chance to ask questions during a live Q&A with Anna and Alex.
Why Trauma Keeps You Isolated (and How to Break Free)
Live Event Led by Anna Runkle with special guest Alex Howard
Imagine Walking into a Room Full of People, and Feeling Like You Belong
No worrying what you’ll say. No knot in your stomach. Just steady confidence—and the quiet joy of connecting easily with anyone you meet.
- Feel overwhelmed in social situations, or exhausted the next day
- Keep people at arm’s length, even when you’re craving connection
- Feel like everyone else got the “manual” for relationships… except you
- Cancel plans at the last minute, or come late and leave early
If this sounds familiar, and you’re looking for change, join Anna Runkle, author of the new book Connectability: Heal the Hidden Ways You Isolate, Find Your People, and Feel (At Last) Like You Belong, for a free 90-minute live event exploring why loneliness is on the rise—and what we can do about it.
October 9, 2025 @ 9am PT / 12pm ET
Together with special guest Alex Howard (author, coach, and creator of In Therapy with Alex Howard), Anna will share how trauma-driven disconnection shows up in our lives, and how to break free from what she calls covert avoidance—the quiet, often invisible behaviors that make connection feel impossible.
You’ll hear Alex’s practical insights on healing the avoidance and emotional defenses that block connection—wisdom he’s distilled from his own journey through trauma, decades of clinical work, and his global healing conferences.
In This Free Live Event, You’ll Discover How To:
Right now, maybe you:
Why Trauma Keeps You Isolated (and How to Break Free)
Live Event Led by Anna Runkle with special guest Alex Howard
October 9, 2025 @ 9am PT / 12pm ET
