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Both pain and hope are present on every page.

Insights into the early wiring of unmet attachment needs as well as dissociative coping mechanisms are integral to this memoir of healing. This is Janyne’s story and also a tribute to a therapist and client who worked as a team to heal attachment wounds and increasingly tragic memories. With a sometimes-conflicted faith in God, and with the support of her therapist, and of her husband, Janyne fought to heal and integrate. Thus began three years of intensive therapy as she fought to heal from sexual abuse that began in a home daycare at the age of three. Janyne wasn’t exactly sure why she had gone to therapy, but she did sense her wonderful life was a cover for deep inner pain that she called “the dark cloud.” During her first EMDR therapy session, three fractured adult parts made a perfect three-point landing in her conscious awareness. The first two books in the BRAVE series: BRAVE A Personal Story of Healing Childhood Trauma Janyne and her husband, Scott, live in the Seattle area, where they enjoy being near their children and grandchildren. And she continues to write books, to blog at, and to guest blog for organizations that address childhood trauma. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Attachment & Trauma Network, Inc. During therapy, Janyne wrote her way to healing and now is redeeming her story by helping others to understand and heal from childhood trauma. Janyne McConnaughey, PhD, retired from a career in education that spanned forty years-from early-childhood educator to college professor-in order to heal from the effects of the childhood abuse she had suffered. All of the beautiful, vulnerable voices tell a difficult truth that leaves the reader feeling more connected to his/her faith.” – Melissa Sadin, EdD, MAT, M.Ed. In this book, Janyne, Non-Janyne, Jane, and all the children we have come to love from Janyne’s first two books, come together to teach us about resilience. Healing is about relationship and safety. Every person in ministry, courageous enough to read A Brave Life, will recognize the need to become more caring toward adults within their ministry who evidence indications of childhood trauma.” – Al Magnuson, retired executive minister, Converge Heartland “I appreciate the grace with which Janyne relates how the church failed her, the clarity with which she shares her struggle with guilt and shame, and the candidness with which she tells her journey to mental health.

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It is also a handbook to help the church better understand how to minister to those who, as children, were victims of the unspeakable. During the journey she comes to understand more about the abundant life and the many ways it was stolen from her by childhood trauma.Ī BRAVE Life offers hope and insight to all who have persevered and silently suffered without knowing why. She takes the reader through her years in California, Missouri, Colorado, finally reaching the ‘Emerald City’ of Seattle.

#Brave books series series#

Readers of Janyne’s two previous books in the series will recognize her whimsical weaving of informative narration, creative storytelling, and raw vulnerability. Her resilience and faith gave her hope and held her until therapeutic healing became possible. To others she seemed to be thriving as she and her husband raised a family and served in the church, while Janyne accomplished a forty-year career in education. Janyne’s dissociative coping mechanisms, that she created and used as a child, allowed her to survive as an adult-in both functional and maladaptive ways. What does a high-functioning survivor of childhood trauma look like? In this third book in the BRAVE series, Janyne shares the story of how she lived her adult life with-and above-the effects of trauma. Bible Poems for Reflection and ResponseĪ BR AVE LIFE: Survival, Resilience, Faith and Hope Book 3 in the BRAVE Series by Janyne McConnaughey, PhD.Mothers Can’t Be Everywhere, But God Is.The Dangerous Journey of Sherman the Sheep.MYSTERIOUS WAYS Series of Frontier Fiction.

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