Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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