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Women in Leadership: It's About Respect
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Oct 23, 2019
  • 5 min

Women in Leadership: It's About Respect

I have served in churches and church-related ministries in two denominations that believed very differently about the roles of women in mini
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Five Years Later: A Future I Couldn’t Imagine
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Aug 4, 2019
  • 5 min

Five Years Later: A Future I Couldn’t Imagine

Except for the people I have known for many years, my life looks nothing like it did five years ago. I do not live in the same place, do the
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Our Nation's Legacy: Solutions or Millstones
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • 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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My Readers are BRAVE!
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Jun 11, 2019
  • 4 min

My Readers are BRAVE!

(I have been blessed by so many who have written to me and shared their healing paths which included both reading BRAVE: A Personal Story of
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What the World Needs Now
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Apr 3, 2019
  • 5 min

What the World Needs Now

Our culture’s avoidance of feelings and emotions has resulted in an inability to understand ourselves and why we do the things we do. Both s
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Wish Lists: The Importance of Asking
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Nov 27, 2018
  • 5 min

Wish Lists: The Importance of Asking

There are lots of us who can’t ask for what we need or want. We have stories that caused this and it affects us in relationships and other h
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NWMinistryConference: If We Pause to Listen
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Mar 11, 2018
  • 4 min

NWMinistryConference: If We Pause to Listen

We can’t fully help others without addressing the deep impact of mental health in our homes, churches, schools, and communities. Simply addr
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Book Review of Sorts: Divine Echoes by Mark Gregory Karris
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Jan 25, 2018
  • 3 min

Book Review of Sorts: Divine Echoes by Mark Gregory Karris

I found the book to be engaging, thoughtful, and was profoundly excited to find a book that placed the answers to prayers not in a superhuma
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Following Stars and Listening to God
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Dec 19, 2017
  • 5 min

Following Stars and Listening to God

It wasn’t just that the Wise Men came and worshipped. They did something much more important than that. They listened to what God communicat
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Freewill and the Hardening of Pharaoh's Heart
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Nov 25, 2017
  • 4 min

Freewill and the Hardening of Pharaoh's Heart

The whole scenario reminds me of my favorite Aesop’s fable—paraphrased. The sun and the wind had a conversation about a man sitting on a ben
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Can We STOP the Anxiety?
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • 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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Leaving Tomorrow in the Future
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Oct 30, 2017
  • 4 min

Leaving Tomorrow in the Future

Instead of fearing tomorrow, delight in today. It has been a long road to accomplishing this because I trained myself to be prepared for any
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The Day Everything Changed
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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Monkey Bars or Swings: Choice vs. Obedience
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Oct 22, 2017
  • 5 min

Monkey Bars or Swings: Choice vs. Obedience

I was like a small timid child who was terrified to step out on the playground. I needed God to direct me to the monkey bars or the swing. M
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When the Canary Stops Singing
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Oct 15, 2017
  • 5 min

When the Canary Stops Singing

I was the child who stopped singing. One Sunday morning when I was about eight, I refused to sing the song, Jesus Loves Me. “Why aren’t you
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Hiding in the Garden
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Sep 24, 2017
  • 5 min

Hiding in the Garden

The tragedy of the human condition is not in eating the apple, but in the distortion of natural guilt. Our greatest loss is when we no longe
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What God Does (and Doesn't Do)
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Sep 17, 2017
  • 5 min

What God Does (and Doesn't Do)

This blog is for everyone who ever had something bad happen. That would be all of us. What if we believe that the God, who can do anything a
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When God is Not in Control
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Aug 27, 2017
  • 7 min

When God is Not in Control

Outside of an understanding of an uncontrolling God there is no potential for truly transcending the human experience of trauma, living life
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Therapy: Do I Hear Crickets?
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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Jesus Said to Love YourSELF
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Aug 20, 2017
  • 5 min

Jesus Said to Love YourSELF

As much as we want to deny that an inner child still lives inside of us and is the core of who we are, it is the absolute truth. When I snea
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