Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Healing Religious Trauma: Listening to My Own Advice
The day Trauma in the Pews published my focus shifted, and I began living out an unhealed portion of my story...
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
May 16, 20235 min
McMusing: Who Chooses your Chair?
For several years I have been posting my morning musings on Facebook and it is probably time to be more intentional (my word for this...
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Nov 13, 20204 min
How Not to be a Fixer
This morning I decided to catch up on my son's recent sermons and God met me there—not in necessarily pleasant ways, but certainly...
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Sep 9, 20204 min
#1 Trauma-Informed Ministries: Leading Others to Healing Waters
How do you gently encourage someone to not just recognize their need for healing but to move toward it before they reach the breaking point.
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Sep 4, 20202 min
How to Be a Healing Church: A Very Human Webinar
With an understanding of the effects of trauma, the church has unlimited potential for being a healing church.
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Feb 11, 20204 min
Stepping Into Deep Waters
This presentation was certainly going to take me deeper than I would ever choose for my feet to wander.
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Oct 23, 20195 min
Women in Leadership: It's About Respect
I have served in churches and church-related ministries in two denominations that believed very differently about the roles of women in mini
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Jul 8, 20195 min
Our Nation's Legacy: Solutions or Millstones
When children are traumatized there are always results.This is a well documented and researched truth. The brain scans of those who have bee
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Apr 2, 20195 min
5 Things I Did to Not be Me
Let us look deeply inside the children in our lives. The “me” I described in the above paragraph was overlooked and lost in all my survival
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Nov 27, 20185 min
Wish Lists: The Importance of Asking
There are lots of us who can’t ask for what we need or want. We have stories that caused this and it affects us in relationships and other h
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Mar 11, 20184 min
NWMinistryConference: If We Pause to Listen
We can’t fully help others without addressing the deep impact of mental health in our homes, churches, schools, and communities. Simply addr
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Jan 25, 20183 min
Book Review of Sorts: Divine Echoes by Mark Gregory Karris
I found the book to be engaging, thoughtful, and was profoundly excited to find a book that placed the answers to prayers not in a superhuma
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Dec 19, 20175 min
Following Stars and Listening to God
It wasn’t just that the Wise Men came and worshipped. They did something much more important than that. They listened to what God communicat
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Nov 25, 20174 min
Freewill and the Hardening of Pharaoh's Heart
The whole scenario reminds me of my favorite Aesop’s fable—paraphrased. The sun and the wind had a conversation about a man sitting on a ben
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Nov 12, 20175 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
Oct 30, 20174 min
Leaving Tomorrow in the Future
Instead of fearing tomorrow, delight in today. It has been a long road to accomplishing this because I trained myself to be prepared for any
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Oct 22, 20175 min
Monkey Bars or Swings: Choice vs. Obedience
I was like a small timid child who was terrified to step out on the playground. I needed God to direct me to the monkey bars or the swing. M
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Oct 15, 20175 min
When the Canary Stops Singing
I was the child who stopped singing. One Sunday morning when I was about eight, I refused to sing the song, Jesus Loves Me.
“Why aren’t you
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Sep 24, 20175 min
Hiding in the Garden
The tragedy of the human condition is not in eating the apple, but in the distortion of natural guilt. Our greatest loss is when we no longe
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Sep 17, 20175 min
What God Does (and Doesn't Do)
This blog is for everyone who ever had something bad happen. That would be all of us. What if we believe that the God, who can do anything a
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