I get an imagined image of you, going to the stream to get a drink of water, laying down, cupping your hands, and then going too deep and bringing up sentiment from the bottom and muddying the water you intended to drink.
Perhaps you can put an in between step in there, get a bucket of water and take it away from the stream, get a cup and then drink?
Specific examples are needed as you can't drink the muddied water. I would create a specific example in the present and learn what you can from it.
"Why does hugging feel so awkward?" is too general and can't get you anywhere because there's no reference points. Go out and hug someone and/or receive a hug. Note your exact thoughts and fears, flashbacks and physical responses. Does hugging Alice feel the same as being hugged by Alice? Does hugging Alice feel the same as hugging Betty? Who is the better hugger, Alice or Betty?
If you were not hugged much as a child, were not touched kindly, guess what? You don't have the experience and new things are always scary! You don't have the habit of hugging and being hugged and you're afraid you'll mess it up! How long do you hold a hug? What happens if the person hugging you starts to cry like Aunt Mary did when I was five and didn't understand what was going on? (I don't/didn't have an Aunt Mary, I'm just winging this :-)
Most the things I was scared of, and we're talking about someone afraid of their shadow, turns out I was scared of because of lack of experience. I was living in my head analyzing things instead of "doing" them and getting the experience. I had all the questions and, instead of looking for the answers (in experience), I would imagine (I have an A1 imagination, best there is on the market) the answers. I use to read over 5 books a week, I knew all the answers, unfortunately they were all from books and they were books I hadn't written. The map is not the territory!
"Why did I try to "run away" from home so many times as a kid?" You have to pull up from your memory a memory of one of those times and see if you can access your thinking/feeling. Hard to do at this distance, at this time. So, do something "like" running away.
I use to have to be on time/early for therapy, had to go each week, etc. If I thought I was going to be late, it was scary as heck. So, the answer to that was to be late, we're talking about a few minutes! See what "happens".
One of my favorite ah-ha moments though, which might help you get "specific", was being in the shopping center with my husband and eating at the food court there. My husband loves ice cream and would always stop at the ice cream stand and get a sundae. I don't like ice cream (or a sandwich) because it's too messy and I don't like getting messy. But this one time, I got myself an ice cream cone and started to eat it and it was kind of large and very soft so was melting fast. I got anxious and suddenly realized/remembered my stepmother being critical of how messy I'd get, especially as compared with my brother who's a couple years older. Well, duh, 5 and 6 year olds can't eat that much ice cream that fast, it's bound to melt and my brother had had a couple more years of eating ice cream to "practice". So I suddenly knew "why" I was anxious but what to do about it? I wasn't 5 or 6 anymore nor eating my first ice cream! I could do this!

If I got it all over me, I was a big girl and could wash myself! LOL The world would not come to an end. I love getting ice cream now, testing my prowess as a large cone eater :-)
Go out and do some things that make you anxious and find a couple specific examples to analyze. Think of 5 things to do and how to experiment with them and write them up and tell your T, I tried "this", and "this" and "this" and here's how I felt and what I learned.
Look at your list and see if you can find connections between your questions; how about "lie about things I'm uncomfortable with" and "run away from home" Isn't lying a form of running away? Combine things playfully, how about "home being one of the things that made you uncomfortable"?
Start with now and how you do things and that will lead you back to then, eventually. But now has a lot to explore on its own. Do one thing a day that scares you and write it up for your T like a science experiment? Look at the small stuff here, now. Pan for gold in the present.