Author. Speaker. Podcaster.
Jackie McCown is a Catholic author and speaker whose work is rooted in healing, dignity, and the lived reality of faith.
She speaks to women who are holding it all together on the outside — while quietly carrying more than anyone can see.
Her message is simple, but not easy:
You do not have to perform your way back to God.
A survivor of both childhood and adult sexual abuse, Jackie speaks from lived experience — not theory.
Her journey through Calvinism, Anglicanism, and ultimately into the Catholic Church shapes everything she teaches. She brings a rare combination of theological depth and emotional honesty … holding both the beauty of the Church and the complexity of real healing.
Her work meets women in the space where faith and lived experience don’t always line up … and gently brings them back into alignment.
Your dignity was never lost.
It's still there.
Your dignity was never lost. It's still there.
Speaking Topics
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Why dignity is not something you earn back — and what it means to finally believe that.
Shame tells a story … that what happened to you changed who you are.
That you are less now.
That healing is for other people.It’s not true.
In this talk, Jackie names that lie for what it is — and walks women back to something deeper and more solid than self-improvement:
The truth that dignity was given by God, before anything happened to you. And it has not been taken.
This is not a talk about becoming someone new. It’s about returning to who you already are.
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Why holding it all together isn’t strength — and what actually is.
For many women, strength has looked like this:
Keep going.
Don’t fall apart.
Don’t let anyone see what’s really going on.And for a while, it works.
Until it doesn’t.
In this talk, Jackie names the quiet exhaustion of performing okayness — and the moment when that performance begins to crack.
Not as failure.
But as invitation.
Because real resilience isn’t about pretending everything is fine.
It’s about learning how to stand in what’s true — and discovering that God meets you there.
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Why healing was never meant to happen alone.
One of the deepest lies trauma leaves behind is this:
You’re the only one.
No one will understand.
It’s safer to carry it yourself.So we do.
We stay quiet.
We isolate.
We perform strength instead of asking for help.And it keeps us stuck.
In this talk, Jackie explores what actually begins to shift when healing moves out of isolation and into relationship.
Not quick fixes.
Not forced vulnerability.But the slow, courageous work of being seen — and discovering that you don’t have to carry this alone anymore.