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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.

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Sep 4, 20202 min read


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

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Nov 14, 20175 min read


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

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Oct 17, 20175 min read


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

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Sep 24, 20175 min read


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

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Jul 6, 20175 min read


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

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Jun 21, 20176 min read


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

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Apr 10, 20174 min read
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