Parenting

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

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 McConnaughey, PhD

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 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

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 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

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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Generational Patterns and the Ice Cream Truck

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD

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 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

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 McConnaughey, PhD

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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Rock-a-Bye Baby: What God Wants for Every Child

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD

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 McConnaughey, PhD

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 McConnaughey, PhD

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...

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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD

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...

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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD

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...

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