The concept of self-soothing is key to understanding addictive behaviors.

When children are traumatized there are always results.This is a well documented and researched truth. The brain scans of those who have bee

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

This book defines me as a writer. It is an interweaving narrative that almost defies description. One of my endorsers for Jeannie's BRAV

Jeannie, the resourceful and resilient child self of author Janyne McConnaughey takes center stage in this companion book to BRAVE: A person

I don’t want to dwell there either, but I find the populace in general to be very much lacking in an understanding of the effects of not hav

I am well aware that my book and the truth I tell will be a powerful statement about the effects of childhood trauma. The vulnerability requ

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

(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...

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

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

While watching April, the giraffe, give birth this morning, I thought it was a perfect illustration of new birth and bonding. It was a...