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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
- Nov 23, 2017
- 4 min
Thankful: Being Safe in my own Head and Body
Today, I am thankful for so much. My husband who took care of me (no small task), my therapist who believed in me when I couldn’t believe in
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- Nov 16, 2017
- 5 min
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
- Nov 14, 2017
- 5 min
What if I Fly? What if We Fly?
This is really what saying #MeToo means. We are saying that there is nothing wrong with us. The longer we are silent, the greater the power
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- Oct 17, 2017
- 5 min
Flying Earrings: The Lesson
When my earrings fell out and bounced across the floor, I was suddenly about six years old in an adult presenter’s body. I could do nothing
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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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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 22, 2017
- 6 min
Neediness: An Unintended Consequence of Shame
I stood in the doorway. I was very small, maybe two. I was sucking on my two middle fingers and watching my mother in the kitchen. I was for
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- Apr 23, 2017
- 4 min
Writing My Own Ending to My Story
Last week I had the opportunity to sit with a new group of potential friends and tell my story. That was a frightening thing to do because my story is one my mind has mostly hidden from me for 60 years. Survival required safety and being aware of my own story was not safe. It certainly wasn’t safe to tell it! Where is it safe to tell our stories? Not many places fit the criteria of safety. For me, to tell my story meant that I had to reach the point where safety was not my pa
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- Apr 16, 2017
- 5 min
An Easter Perspective: Guilt, Shame, and Forgiveness
Why did Jesus die? Well, first of all he died because religious types hated him for speaking truth that upset their carefully constructed boxes and disturbed their power base. There are thousands of books on the subject of why Jesus died, but plain and simple, he died because he was hated and he refused to keep quiet and stop healing people. He knew exactly what was going to happen because he knew how entrenched religion had become and the power it wielded over those it oppre
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- Apr 10, 2017
- 4 min
A Culture of Shame
While bracing myself for the lurch of the tram at Denver airport, I watched as a young family with a stroller and screaming toddler tried to
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