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How to Be a Healing Church: A Very Human Webinar
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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What if I Fly? What if We Fly?
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Nov 14, 2017
  • 5 min

What if I Fly? What if We Fly?

This is really what saying #MeToo means. We are saying that there is nothing wrong with us. The longer we are silent, the greater the power
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Flying Earrings: The Lesson
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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Hiding in the Garden
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • 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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Is it Anxiety or Shame?
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Jul 7, 2017
  • 5 min

Is it Anxiety or Shame?

I never knew I was dealing with shame. I knew I had excessive anxiety about the simplest of things like ordering food in a fast food restaur
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Neediness: An Unintended Consequence of Shame
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Jun 22, 2017
  • 6 min

Neediness: An Unintended Consequence of Shame

I stood in the doorway. I was very small, maybe two. I was sucking on my two middle fingers and watching my mother in the kitchen. I was for
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A Culture of Shame
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Apr 10, 2017
  • 4 min

A Culture of Shame

While bracing myself for the lurch of the tram at Denver airport, I watched as a young family with a stroller and screaming toddler tried to
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