ATN's Virtual Pivot
In the Spring of 2020, the Attachment & Trauma Network (ATN) staff and Board had to make a difficult decision. We decided our next...
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- Sep 17, 2020
- 4 min
#3 Trauma-Informed Ministries: The Hurting Child
For children who have experienced trauma, feeling safe is an essential need which is difficult to meet.
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- Sep 13, 2020
- 4 min
#2 Trauma-Informed Ministries: Is it Childhood Trauma?
The concept of self-soothing is key to understanding addictive behaviors.
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- Sep 9, 2020
- 4 min
#1 Trauma-Informed Ministries: Leading Others to Healing Waters
How do you gently encourage someone to not just recognize their need for healing but to move toward it before they reach the breaking point.
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- 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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- Jun 1, 2020
- 3 min
Can You Listen to the Smoke?
As the protests began, I understood the purpose; when they turned violent, I also understood some of the conditions that fed that violence.
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- Feb 11, 2020
- 4 min
Stepping Into Deep Waters
This presentation was certainly going to take me deeper than I would ever choose for my feet to wander.
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- Sep 27, 2019
- 3 min
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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- Jul 8, 2019
- 5 min
Our Nation's Legacy: Solutions or Millstones
When children are traumatized there are always results.This is a well documented and researched truth. The brain scans of those who have bee
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- Jan 9, 2019
- 4 min
A Peek into Jeannie's BRAVE Childhood!
This book defines me as a writer. It is an interweaving narrative that almost defies description. One of my endorsers for Jeannie's BRAV
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- Nov 13, 2018
- 2 min
Jeannie's BRAVE Childhood
Jeannie, the resourceful and resilient child self of author Janyne McConnaughey takes center stage in this companion book to BRAVE: A person
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Jan 10, 2018
- 4 min
BRAVE: A Personal Story of Healing Childhood Trauma
I am well aware that my book and the truth I tell will be a powerful statement about the effects of childhood trauma. The vulnerability requ
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- Nov 12, 2017
- 5 min
Can We STOP the Anxiety?
What if the trauma outweighs the goodness of God? It is easy to think that is a spiritual problem, but does a child (or adult) who prays for
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- Nov 1, 2017
- 4 min
Thankfulness and Sensory Processing
As I began to heal, I saw the world around me for what I felt like was the first time. I was like a small child discovering the world. There
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- Oct 10, 2017
- 5 min
The Story My Body Told
The second realization had to do with manicures. I knew, without understanding the language being spoken, that no one wanted to give me a ma
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- Sep 21, 2017
- 4 min
Please Look at Me!
“Please, just keep looking at me and I will be OK.”
I was speaking to another woman who also got pulled over ‘for further inspection’ at a
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- 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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