Understanding Trauma in Childhood
When most people hear the word trauma, they picture spectacular headlines—war zones, terrible accidents, dramatic rescues. Yet trauma is far more common and far more ordinary than the news cycle lets on. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that almost two-thirds of American adults lived through at least one traumatic event before they turned eighteen. One in six carried four or more such experiences into adulthood.
If that statistic lands hard, that’s good. It means we’re waking up.
Healed People Heal People: The Quiet Power of Inner Work
When we say “healed people heal people,” it isn’t a slogan. It’s a call to action. A dare, even. Because we at the TDC do focus on fixing the world “out there”—the broken schools, the violent systems, the hurting kids across the ocean— we also find it vitally important that we first recognize that true disruption starts closer to home. It starts inside.
That’s not a burden. It’s a profound opportunity.
When Healing Feels Like Grief: Making Peace with What You Lost
At the Trauma Disruptor Coalition (TDC), we talk a lot about the power of healing. But less often do we talk about its shadow side: the grief that often walks beside it. Healing, after all, isn’t just about reclaiming what was stolen. It’s about mourning what was never given.
Breaking Cycles in Real Time: The Courage to Disrupt What Harmed You
At the Trauma Disruptor Coalition (TDC), we often say that healing is not only personal, it is generational. To heal yourself is to begin rewriting a story that has likely been passed down, often unknowingly, for decades. Whether it’s yelling, stonewalling, people-pleasing, or chronic avoidance, many of our go-to behaviors were once survival strategies modeled or inherited in childhood. But they are not destiny. They are habits of protection—and they can be interrupted.
Disrupting Trauma for Good: A Call to Heal Generations
The Trauma Disruptor Coalition is a part of All God’s Children International (AGCI), and at AGCI, we believe that healing isn’t just psychological—it’s sacred. It’s the holy, everyday work of interrupting cycles of harm, reclaiming God’s intention for our lives, and partnering with Him to restore what was broken. In Scripture, we find not only comfort but a commissioning: to become vessels of healing in a hurting world.