Jul 22, 2021
Your hosts, Tara Hedman and Diane Thompson, welcome you to another episode of Examine Your Hedman Podcast. They are joined today by Janyne McConnaughey, Ph.D., nationally known trauma-informed author & advocate. She is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tabor College (Masters in Education: Neuroscience & Trauma) and serves on the Board of Directors for the Attachment & Trauma Network (ATN). Janyne builds on her forty-year career in teaching, teacher education, and an expertise in early childhood development to help educators, caregivers, and church ministry workers understand and apply trauma-informed practices.
This episode is the first part of two, where Janyne openly shares the therapeutic progress she went through to heal from the consequences of the trauma she suffered at a very early age. She dives deep into how she struggled to heal when she was expected to be ok for others, the coping mechanisms she was used to implementing, and how she found that it is never too late to face the trauma that was hidden for years and thrive for the life she deserved.
Life really can suck less, so examine your head, man!
Key Takeaways:
[3:59] Diane shares what grief means to her.
[9:42] Janyne shares what her life looks like today.
[11:50] How Tara and Janyne first met.
[13:48] Janyne shares about the beginning of her recovery process.
[17:55] Janyne talks about EMDR therapy and how it helped in her process.
[19:44] Janyne shares about the first big trauma in her life, being sexually abused at 3 years old in a daycare situation and how that affected her.
[20:18] Janyne shares about the most difficult part of her process in intensive therapy.
[21:16] Janyne talks about what processing means to her.
[25:18] Tara talks about how sometimes counseling looks like the problem.
[26:46] Janyne talks about the hardship of talking about her trauma, even when she was around counselors.
[29:38] Janyne talks about her three parts.
[34:50] Janyne shares about losing time.
[36:13] Janyne talks about the difficulty for her friends and family during her recovery process.
[41:03] In regards to trauma, the slower you go, the faster you heal.
[42:35] Tara talks about her own therapeutic process.
[47:12] Janyne shares more about her childhood.
[51:43] Janyne talks about dissociation as a coping mechanism.
[54:02] Janyne shares about having suicidal ideation and how she didn’t want to die, she just wanted the pain to end.
[56:33] How did the memories come back to Janyne?
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