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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.
- 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 A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Feb 14, 2018
- 5 min
A Garden Full of Valentines
I don’t want to dwell there either, but I find the populace in general to be very much lacking in an understanding of the effects of not hav
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Janyne A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- 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 A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Aug 24, 2017
- 6 min
Our Tenacious Inner Child
Jeannie was and is tenacious, but I don’t think there is really anything inside me that is not available to every human being. We are born t
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Janyne A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Aug 10, 2017
- 5 min
Generational Patterns and the Ice Cream Truck
My daughter and I were sitting beside the pool playing a card game. My granddaughter was swimming with a newfound friend about her age. Off
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Janyne A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- 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 A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- 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 A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Jun 14, 2017
- 3 min
Jeannie Learns to be Brave
From somewhere deep inside of me, I can still feel myself gather up strength in order to be brave for my father. We never talked about that
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Janyne A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Jun 6, 2017
- 4 min
Courage Profiles: We Went to Therapy
(Courageous like a Lion! I am meeting many who have courageously gone to therapy and are now sharing their stories to help others. I will...
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Janyne A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- May 26, 2017
- 5 min
Rock-a-Bye Baby: What God Wants for Every Child
When I was a little girl, I had a book with Nursery Rhymes. I still have it. I kept it through all my moves. The picture I attached to this
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Janyne A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- May 18, 2017
- 3 min
Did I Damage You?
To have our children point out our inadequacies and accept it with grace is probably the hardest, bravest, and most helpful thing we could e
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Janyne A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- May 13, 2017
- 3 min
When Dads are Mothers
This is my day before Mother’s Day epiphany: My dad was my mother. I blogged earlier about the difficulty of buying cards on Mother’s Day...
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Janyne A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- May 3, 2017
- 5 min
Picking Roses and Cards
When I was a little girl, every Mother’s Day, my mother would go outside and pick a rose for each of us. She would choose red for me and w...
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Janyne A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Apr 15, 2017
- 2 min
Why April Licked Her Baby
While watching April, the giraffe, give birth this morning, I thought it was a perfect illustration of new birth and bonding. It was a bi...
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