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Janyne A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Aug 24, 2019
- 4 min
BRAVE for Teachers: The Importance of Play
Thinking a child who doesn’t enter into play is simply being shy or obstinate prevents us from helping the child utilize this important path
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Janyne A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Aug 22, 2019
- 2 min
BRAVE for Teachers: The Need for Physical Activity
Increasingly, the researchers are telling us the key to learning is physical activity (though this is not a new understanding). While we nee
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Janyne A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Aug 15, 2019
- 3 min
BRAVE for Teachers
“Tell the teachers to start watching for posts,” Jeannie said. “They will understand and buy my book and it will help them understand childr
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Janyne A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Jan 16, 2019
- 3 min
What Educators and Therapists are Saying!
During my healing journey, my dissociated child selves, frozen in time by trauma, provided a window into the mind of a child who has suffere
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Janyne A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Aug 9, 2018
- 5 min
Ten Things I Needed at School
For a child who has suffered trauma—especially abuse, sexual abuse in particular, the main goal of every single day is to feel safe. This ne
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Janyne A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- 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 A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Feb 21, 2018
- 5 min
An Airport Reflection about Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools
I realize more and more how trauma informed my teaching methods and choices. No one expected anyone else to be perfect. Stories were receive
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Janyne A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- 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 A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Jul 27, 2017
- 4 min
Effects of Trauma: I Was an Underachiever
I was an underachiever. Has God enabled me to live my life and use my suffering to help others? Absolutely! But there is so much I would hav
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Janyne A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- Jul 20, 2017
- 3 min
The Classroom through the Lens of Trauma
The doctor my parents took me to was wise beyond his era. He said, “She seems to be a bit anxious about school. Maybe it would help to keep
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Janyne A. McConnaughey, Ph.D.
- May 10, 2017
- 2 min
Because a Teacher Cared
The following excerpt from my first book, BRAVE: A Personal Story of Healing Childhood Trauma, explains the reason I spent my life prepar...
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