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What Does Healing Feel Like?
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Jan 13, 2020
  • 4 min

What Does Healing Feel Like?

Allowing myself to feel my feelings while being triggered is part of healing and to be able to do this is what “healed” feels like.
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Planes, Blocks, Moms, & Toddlers
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • May 23, 2019
  • 4 min

Planes, Blocks, Moms, & Toddlers

We eventually began to talk about the end of the flight, how far we had to go before we slept, who was waiting there, and so forth. She ment
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WHAT IF It's Not Your Fault?
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Jul 13, 2018
  • 3 min

WHAT IF It's Not Your Fault?

Then one glorious day, I sat back on the therapy couch and said, “This was never my fault.” In all of my “what if” moments, the idea of my i
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Helping Jeannie Release Trauma
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Jun 1, 2018
  • 5 min

Helping Jeannie Release Trauma

We often stop ourselves and the children in our lives from doing everything necessary for the body to heal from trauma. We stop our tears, w
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Living Life with Faulty Connections
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Jan 16, 2018
  • 3 min

Living Life with Faulty Connections

Listen to the children. Talk to the children. Follow the clues they leave to their faulty connections. Help them be free to live the lives t
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Can We STOP the Anxiety?
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Nov 12, 2017
  • 5 min

Can We STOP the Anxiety?

What if the trauma outweighs the goodness of God? It is easy to think that is a spiritual problem, but does a child (or adult) who prays for
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Thankfulness and Sensory Processing
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Nov 1, 2017
  • 4 min

Thankfulness and Sensory Processing

As I began to heal, I saw the world around me for what I felt like was the first time. I was like a small child discovering the world. There
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Flying Earrings: The Lesson
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Oct 17, 2017
  • 5 min

Flying Earrings: The Lesson

When my earrings fell out and bounced across the floor, I was suddenly about six years old in an adult presenter’s body. I could do nothing
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Feelings: It's Just a Wave
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Aug 2, 2017
  • 5 min

Feelings: It's Just a Wave

Then, I felt it pass over me like a wave. It felt like I was just outside the place where the waves broke and crashed onto the sand. The emo
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My First Tattoo: The Pear of Kindness
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Aug 2, 2017
  • 4 min

My First Tattoo: The Pear of Kindness

I was watching a small girl at the next table when she suddenly lost it. Hysterical. Pulling at her blouse. Inconsolable. It was something a
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A Line of Sorts in the Sands of Time
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Mar 3, 2017
  • 2 min

A Line of Sorts in the Sands of Time

This is a line of sorts in the sands of time because this blog post divides my past from my future. I suppose it can't really be that...
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