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Courage Profiles: We Went to Therapy
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Jun 6, 2017
  • 4 min

Courage Profiles: We Went to Therapy

(Courageous like a Lion! I am meeting many who have courageously gone to therapy and are now sharing their stories to help others. I will...
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Trauma and PTSD: My Story of Hope
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Jun 2, 2017
  • 5 min

Trauma and PTSD: My Story of Hope

It was natural to think of PTSD being a primarily military problem—until I met my own trauma and PTSD symptoms face to face.
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Forgiving Can't Heal You
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • May 30, 2017
  • 5 min

Forgiving Can't Heal You

Some define forgiving as a choice. They say, “Choose to forgive and eventually you will feel it.” I say, you haven’t forgiven until you feel
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Rock-a-Bye Baby: What God Wants for Every Child
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • May 26, 2017
  • 5 min

Rock-a-Bye Baby: What God Wants for Every Child

When I was a little girl, I had a book with Nursery Rhymes. I still have it. I kept it through all my moves. The picture I attached to this
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Messy Closets & Going on a Bear Hunt
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • May 19, 2017
  • 4 min

Messy Closets & Going on a Bear Hunt

We had been sitting and talking for some time—a long time. It was like we should have been friends always, but since we hadn’t been we...
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Did I Damage You?
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • May 18, 2017
  • 3 min

Did I Damage You?

To have our children point out our inadequacies and accept it with grace is probably the hardest, bravest, and most helpful thing we could e
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When Dads are Mothers
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • May 13, 2017
  • 3 min

When Dads are Mothers

This is my day before Mother’s Day epiphany: My dad was my mother. I blogged earlier about the difficulty of buying cards on Mother’s...
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Because a Teacher Cared
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • May 10, 2017
  • 2 min

Because a Teacher Cared

The following excerpt from my first book, BRAVE: A Personal Story of Healing Childhood Trauma, explains the reason I spent my life...
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Therapy: Just Like Falling in the Giraffe House
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • May 10, 2017
  • 2 min

Therapy: Just Like Falling in the Giraffe House

With the words to a song about climbing out of the rubble drifting through my head, I entered the giraffe house at our local zoo. It had...
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The Ladybug Takes Flight
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • May 7, 2017
  • 5 min

The Ladybug Takes Flight

Two years ago, I marched in my graduation regalia and knew it would be my last time to sit with the faculty at Convocation. The sun was...
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Picking Roses and Cards
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • May 3, 2017
  • 5 min

Picking Roses and Cards

When I was a little girl, every Mother’s Day, my mother would go outside and pick a rose for each of us. She would choose red for me and...
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When the Altar is Not Enough
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Apr 30, 2017
  • 3 min

When the Altar is Not Enough

I can remember going to down to the altar since I was eight.Year after year, I heard the evangelists and preachers say, “Come lay your...
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I Went to Therapy
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Apr 28, 2017
  • 5 min

I Went to Therapy

Staring at the large white Victorian house in front of me, the safety and comfort of my car seemed to wrap around my terrified body and...
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Dance With Me!*
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Apr 25, 2017
  • 4 min

Dance With Me!*

I always believed I had no rhythm. It wasn’t true, but I believed it. Once, when speaking, I said rhythm had been bred out of me as a...
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Writing My Own Ending to My Story
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...
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An Easter Perspective: Guilt, Shame, and Forgiveness
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...
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Why April Licked Her Baby
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Apr 15, 2017
  • 2 min

Why April Licked Her Baby

While watching April, the giraffe, give birth this morning, I thought it was a perfect illustration of new birth and bonding. It was a...
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A Culture of Shame
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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A Line of Sorts in the Sands of Time
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Mar 3, 2017
  • 2 min

A Line of Sorts in the Sands of Time

This is a line of sorts in the sands of time because this blog post divides my past from my future. I suppose it can't really be that...
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I Stare at Playgrounds
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
  • Jan 7, 2015
  • 2 min

I Stare at Playgrounds

I volunteer in my little Aria’s kindergarten classroom. I leave when she goes to recess and on the way out of the building, I stare at...
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