Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
BRAVE for Teachers
This is my whimsical take on the fact that I didn't explain very well that Jeannie's BRAVE Childhood was the book I wrote for teachers....
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Feb 12, 20212 min read
BRAVE for Teachers: The Need for Physical Activity
“What would have helped me as a child?” I try to answer this in Jeannie’s BRAVE Childhood: Behavior and Healing through the Lens of...
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Feb 12, 20214 min read
BRAVE for Teachers: The Importance of Play
About midway through my healing process, I came to the realization that I did not know how to play, at least not with the abandonment of...
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Aug 24, 20194 min read
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 McConnaughey, PhD
Aug 22, 20192 min read
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 McConnaughey, PhD
Aug 15, 20193 min read
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 McConnaughey, PhD
Jan 16, 20193 min read
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 McConnaughey, PhD
Nov 13, 20182 min read
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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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Aug 9, 20185 min read
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 McConnaughey, PhD
Jun 1, 20185 min read
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 McConnaughey, PhD
Feb 21, 20185 min read
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 McConnaughey, PhD
Nov 16, 20175 min read
So Much More than Perfect
Not only was I telling my story to the world, but I was also was putting it in printed form. My fear of being corrected was well founded sin
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Aug 24, 20176 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
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Jul 27, 20174 min read
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 McConnaughey, PhD
Jul 20, 20173 min read
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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