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Reflection: My Hope for the Future
I was prepared to share my insights with the students; but what I received from them exceeded my expectations. I received a profound hope fo

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Sep 27, 20193 min read


BRAVE: To Read or Not to Read
I used all my skill as an instructional designer when writing BRAVE. I have read books that throw graphic abuse details at you on the first

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Apr 3, 20185 min read


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

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Feb 14, 20185 min read


Writing My Own Ending to My Story
I did not come to this place of sharing easily or quickly. It was necessary to heal before sharing. It is important to share selectively and

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Jan 5, 20184 min read


The Day Everything Changed
The day I walked into therapy, I got on a train to a new destination. Scott saw me departing and jumped on board. We have traveled over moun

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Oct 24, 20174 min read


Anxiety: Stay in the Intersection!
Then, one day, I was driving across town and fighting the ever-present anxiety, when I suddenly I realized that my mind was in the middle of

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Sep 5, 20174 min read


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

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Aug 24, 20176 min read


Therapy: Do I Hear Crickets?
When I include the word therapy in my blog titles, I hear crickets. Maybe I should just randomly include ‘God’ in the titles. Maybe that wou

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Aug 22, 20176 min read


Therapy: The Unknowing Knowing of Trauma
For many abuse victims, there is a sense of knowing without knowing. Sometimes a memory floats around the edges of consciousness, but our de

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Aug 8, 20175 min read


Therapy: Finding a Sense of Self
Finding a sense of Self out of a conglomeration of children, teens, young adults, and adults who would step in to lead (without warning when

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Aug 1, 20175 min read


Therapy Tape: Get Sticky
While my journey through therapy was undoubtedly one of the loneliest times of my life, I am grateful for my husband who became my ‘Therapy

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Jul 25, 20176 min read


Healing Trauma is Painful and Worth It
The day I walked into therapy, I looked and felt great--but I knew I needed help. A month later I was filling every trashcan in the office a

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Jul 18, 20174 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 7, 20175 min read


Mental Health: The Not-So-Golden Silence
I saw her stand up to give her testimony. Everything in me was screaming. "No! Don't do it!" But she did. In exquisite detail

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Jun 19, 20178 min read


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...

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Jun 6, 20174 min read


Trauma and PTSD: My Story of Hope
It was natural to think of PTSD being a primarily military problem—until I met my own trauma and PTSD symptoms face to face.

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Jun 2, 20175 min read


Messy Closets & Going on a Bear Hunt
We had been sitting and talking for some time—a long time. It was like we should have been friends always, but since we hadn’t been we...

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
May 19, 20174 min read


Therapy: Just Like Falling in the Giraffe House
With the words to a song about climbing out of the rubble drifting through my head, I entered the giraffe house at our local zoo. It had...

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
May 10, 20172 min read


I Went to Therapy
Staring at the large white Victorian house in front of me, the safety and comfort of my car seemed to wrap around my terrified body and...

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Apr 28, 20175 min read


Dance With Me!*
I always believed I had no rhythm. It wasn’t true, but I believed it. Once, when speaking, I said rhythm had been bred out of me as a...

Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Apr 25, 20174 min read
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