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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- Sep 4, 2020
- 2 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, 2020
- 4 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 A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Oct 23, 2019
- 5 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 A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Jul 8, 2019
- 5 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 A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Apr 2, 2019
- 5 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 A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Nov 27, 2018
- 5 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 A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Mar 11, 2018
- 4 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 A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Jan 25, 2018
- 3 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 A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Dec 19, 2017
- 5 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 A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Nov 25, 2017
- 4 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 A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- 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 A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Oct 30, 2017
- 4 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 A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Oct 22, 2017
- 5 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 A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Oct 15, 2017
- 5 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 A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Sep 24, 2017
- 5 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 A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Sep 17, 2017
- 5 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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Janyne A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Aug 27, 2017
- 7 min
When God is Not in Control
Outside of an understanding of an uncontrolling God there is no potential for truly transcending the human experience of trauma, living life
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Janyne A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Aug 20, 2017
- 5 min
Jesus Said to Love YourSELF
As much as we want to deny that an inner child still lives inside of us and is the core of who we are, it is the absolute truth. When I snea
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