Author: Janyne McConnaughey, PhD

Janyne McConnaughey, a retired teacher educator and Professor Emeritus, taught every age from preschool to graduate school during her forty-year career. She completed a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership, form the University of Colorado—Denver in 2016, with an emphasis in Early Childhood and Math Education. After retiring, and an intensive healing journey for significant childhood trauma, she now devotes her time to writing, speaking, and blogging. Along with Brave: A Personal Story of Healing Childhood Trauma, published in January 2018, Janyne is working on two forthcoming sequels which should be available in 2019. She spends as much time as she can with her family in the Seattle area; but also enjoys her quiet life at the RV Resort in Colorado where her husband is General Manager.

BRAVE: What I Chose to Tell

When I talk about BRAVE: A Personal Story of Healing Childhood Trauma, I sense assumptions from the outset. They are understandable – after all, the title says it’s about childhood trauma, right? Yet at the same time, I want to laugh and say, “Could you just read the book before you make up your mind?”

Two Kinds of Brave

[warning – this post briefly references an act of sexual assault] In her response to BRAVE: A Personal Story of Healing Childhood Trauma, Laura Dennis, ATN blog manager, asked me to address the following: “There are (at least) 2 kinds of being brave. One is an illusion in which we tell ourselves a version of