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ATN's Virtual Pivot
In the Spring of 2020, the Attachment & Trauma Network (ATN) staff and Board had to make a difficult decision. We decided our next...
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Feb 21, 20213 min read
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#3 Trauma-Informed Ministries: The Hurting Child
For children who have experienced trauma, feeling safe is an essential need which is difficult to meet.
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Sep 17, 20204 min read
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#2 Trauma-Informed Ministries: Is it Childhood Trauma?
The concept of self-soothing is key to understanding addictive behaviors.
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Sep 13, 20204 min read
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#1 Trauma-Informed Ministries: Leading Others to Healing Waters
How do you gently encourage someone to not just recognize their need for healing but to move toward it before they reach the breaking point.
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Sep 9, 20204 min read
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How to Be a Healing Church: A Very Human Webinar
With an understanding of the effects of trauma, the church has unlimited potential for being a healing church.
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Sep 4, 20202 min read
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Can You Listen to the Smoke?
As the protests began, I understood the purpose; when they turned violent, I also understood some of the conditions that fed that violence.
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Jun 1, 20203 min read
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Stepping Into Deep Waters
This presentation was certainly going to take me deeper than I would ever choose for my feet to wander.
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Feb 11, 20204 min read
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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
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Sep 27, 20193 min read
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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
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Jul 8, 20195 min read
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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
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Jan 9, 20194 min read
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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
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Nov 13, 20182 min read
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Helping Jeannie Release Trauma
We often stop ourselves and the children in our lives from doing everything necessary for the body to heal from trauma. We stop our tears, w
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Jun 1, 20185 min read
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BRAVE: To Read or Not to Read
I used all my skill as an instructional designer when writing BRAVE. I have read books that throw graphic abuse details at you on the first
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Apr 3, 20185 min read
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An Airport Reflection about Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools
I realize more and more how trauma informed my teaching methods and choices. No one expected anyone else to be perfect. Stories were receive
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Feb 21, 20185 min read
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BRAVE: A Personal Story of Healing Childhood Trauma
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
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Jan 10, 20184 min read
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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
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Nov 12, 20175 min read
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Thankfulness and Sensory Processing
As I began to heal, I saw the world around me for what I felt like was the first time. I was like a small child discovering the world. There
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Nov 1, 20174 min read
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The Story My Body Told
The second realization had to do with manicures. I knew, without understanding the language being spoken, that no one wanted to give me a ma
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Oct 10, 20175 min read
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Please Look at Me!
“Please, just keep looking at me and I will be OK.”
I was speaking to another woman who also got pulled over ‘for further inspection’ at a
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Sep 21, 20174 min read
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Therapy: The Unknowing Knowing of Trauma
For many abuse victims, there is a sense of knowing without knowing. Sometimes a memory floats around the edges of consciousness, but our de
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD
Aug 8, 20175 min read
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