This is my whimsical take on the fact that I didn't explain very well that Jeannie's BRAVE Childhood was the book I wrote for teachers....

“What would have helped me as a child?” I try to answer this in Jeannie’s BRAVE Childhood: Behavior and Healing through the Lens of...

About midway through my healing process, I came to the realization that I did not know how to play, at least not with the abandonment of...

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

Increasingly, the researchers are telling us the key to learning is physical activity (though this is not a new understanding). While we nee

“Tell the teachers to start watching for posts,” Jeannie said. “They will understand and buy my book and it will help them understand childr

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

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

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

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

I realize more and more how trauma informed my teaching methods and choices. No one expected anyone else to be perfect. Stories were receive

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

Jeannie was and is tenacious, but I don’t think there is really anything inside me that is not available to every human being. We are born t

I was an underachiever. Has God enabled me to live my life and use my suffering to help others? Absolutely! But there is so much I would hav

The doctor my parents took me to was wise beyond his era. He said, “She seems to be a bit anxious about school. Maybe it would help to keep