Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
What Does Healing Feel Like?
Allowing myself to feel my feelings while being triggered is part of healing and to be able to do this is what “healed” feels like.
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- Dec 9, 2019
- 3 min
Giving Teens a Voice
Yesterday I sat on a community panel on the topic of teen mental health.That was surprising, but not as surprising as sitting between two te
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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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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- 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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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- 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 McConnaughey, PhD
- 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 McConnaughey, PhD
- 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 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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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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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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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- May 23, 2019
- 4 min
Planes, Blocks, Moms, & Toddlers
We eventually began to talk about the end of the flight, how far we had to go before we slept, who was waiting there, and so forth. She ment
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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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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- Apr 2, 2019
- 5 min
5 Things I Did to Not be Me
Let us look deeply inside the children in our lives. The “me” I described in the above paragraph was overlooked and lost in all my survival
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- 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 McConnaughey, PhD
- 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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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- Dec 19, 2018
- 1 min
Poetry: Words
Sometimes I like to surprise my readers by a side of me most haven't seen. Poetry would fall into that category. I wrote quite a few poe
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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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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- 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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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- Aug 13, 2018
- 5 min
Gathering at the Fence
What if we could simply say, “I don’t agree with everything in this, but I do agree . . .” It is OK to agree and disagree at the same time.
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Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
- 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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