Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
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
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- Apr 3, 2018
- 5 min
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
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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 5, 2018
- 4 min
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
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- Oct 24, 2017
- 4 min
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
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- Sep 5, 2017
- 4 min
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
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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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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- Aug 22, 2017
- 6 min
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
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- Aug 8, 2017
- 5 min
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
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- Aug 1, 2017
- 5 min
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
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- Jul 25, 2017
- 6 min
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
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- Jul 18, 2017
- 5 min
All Healing is Painful
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
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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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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- Jun 19, 2017
- 8 min
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
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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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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- Jun 2, 2017
- 5 min
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.
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- May 19, 2017
- 4 min
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...
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- May 10, 2017
- 2 min
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...
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- Apr 28, 2017
- 5 min
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...
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- Apr 25, 2017
- 4 min
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...
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