Mr. Ed’s Circle of TrustElevating Trauma to Trust · Dr. RAD™
Mr. Ed’s Circle of Trust, Inc. presents · Since 1992

Attachment
Code Cracked.™

Crack the code. Reboot the bond. Elevate the whole house. Thirty-four years from the clinic and the classroom, beside the children everyone else called “too much.” Evidence-based, trauma-informed, faith-anchored.

Mr. Ed’s Circle of Trust, Inc. dba Elevating Trauma to Trust, in partnership with Dr. Franklin Edward Shoemaker, MA (Biblical Counseling), PhD (Psychology), LMHC-QS, TF-CBT, Adoption Accredited LMHC, and Tonya A. Sharrett-Shoemaker, MA (Counseling Psychology), Certified Professional Educator (ESE K-12 · K-5 · ESOL), 2024–25 Teacher of the Year, Medulla Elementary.

Dr. RAD™ The Attachment Code Breaker™. Attachment Code Cracked.™ · Dr. RAD The Attachment Code Breaker Press.
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Tonya A. Sharrett-Shoemaker and Dr. Franklin “Ed” Shoemaker, smiling side by side against a blue sky, with “Tonya & Ed” in white script
Tonya & Ed · 34+ years each, one mission
00 // The lie you were sold

It is not just bad behavior. It is a trauma loop.

If the house is stuck in outbursts, push-pull, and shutdown, stop buying the lie. After 34 years decoding it, from the clinic and the classroom, this is the unfiltered line: trench-tested, evidence-based, faith-anchored hard resets. Attachment reboots. No sugarcoat. No “try harder.”

Kids are not “bad” or “manipulative.” They are locked in survival mode. We drop the judgment, name the nervous-system hijack, and turn families, classrooms, and communities toward repair.

34Years in the work
1992In the room since
N=2232016 dissertation sample
6Florida counties
Two keys. One lock.

The Codebreakers

One came from the clinic. One came from the classroom. The code does not crack from one side alone.

The Clinic · The Clinical Architect

Dr. Franklin Edward Shoemaker, PhD, LMHC-QS

  • Founder, President & CEO, Elevating Trauma to Trust, under Mr. Ed’s Circle of Trust, Inc.
  • Licensed Mental Health Counselor & Qualified Supervisor (Florida MH13244)
  • Nationally Certified TF-CBT Therapist
  • Nationally Accredited Adoption Competent Clinician (TAC-C.A.S.E.)
  • PhD in Psychology, Northcentral University, 2016 · MA in Biblical Counseling, Trinity Bible College & Seminary
  • Former ESE certified educator · Irene Sullivan Adoption Advocacy Award nominee (2011)
  • Chairman of the Medulla Elementary School Advisory Council
The Classroom · The Heart Translator

Tonya A. Sharrett-Shoemaker, MA

  • MA in Counseling Psychology · BA in Child Psychology
  • Florida Certified Professional Educator: ESE K-12, Elementary (K-5), and ESOL
  • Medulla Elementary, Lakeland · 2024 Teacher of the Year
  • 21+ years of classroom leadership · trauma-responsive education advocate
  • 34+ years working with at-risk, traumatized children, teens, and families
  • Co-author, From the Clinic and the Classroom — No Magic Wand
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The method

The long arc and the day on it

Name the storm before you argue about the weather.

Phase 01

Snapped.

Survival circuitry has overridden attachment circuitry.

Phase 02

Shifted.

The loop interrupted, in the home, the classroom, and the parent’s own history.

Phase 03

Solid.

Not a cured child. A secure base that holds after the crisis leaves the room.

Z

Zero-in.

Names the attachment fact with precision.

A

Activate.

The jolt. One truth the nervous system can hear.

P

Propel.

One move specific enough to finish the same afternoon.

Three hundred sixty-five of those reps walk a family from snapped, through shifted, toward solid. No magic wand.

The master index

Every file. One circle.

Each site, article, and resource from the Dr. RAD™ universe, kept whole in its own section here, with a link to the original full experience.

WING I Who We Are

File 01

Welcome — Start Here

The launch pad for anyone done spinning in Reactive Attachment Disorder chaos.

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The Dr. RAD™ Mission

RAD-Unfiltered Fire. The RAD Code decrypted, and clarity at 2 a.m.

Open → File 03

The Voices Behind Dr. RAD™

Two voices, one code, and a home that lived it.

Open → File 04

Invite Ed & Tonya

Before they were authors, they were in the room. Book them to speak.

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WING II Clinical Services

File 05

From Diagnosis to Delivery

A care story in five acts. Submit or track a referral.

Open → File 06

The Referral Process

Who can refer, what to bring, and what happens after you hit send.

Open → File 07

The Intake Process

The complete intake packet online, in about 30 minutes.

Open → File 08

Specialized Therapeutic Services

Florida Medicaid covered services and service limitations.

Open → File 09

Attachment Bonding Assessment

Attachment decoded, for courts, DCF, GAL, and families.

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WING III Witness

File 10

National Wall of Witness

One cracked code. One transformed story. That is the wall.

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WING IV Research · The Age Five Gate Trilogy

File 11

Breaking the Attachment Code

Book 1 · How child maltreatment fuels attachment difficulties after age five.

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Later Trauma, Deeper Wounds

Book 2 · The results the system did not want.

Open → File 13

Beyond the Age Five Gate

Book 3 · Predispositional and generational trauma, F94.1 and F94.2.

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The Shoemaker Timing–Severity Hypothesis

After the Gate. Later harm still moves severity.

Open → File 15

Snapped → Shifted → Solid™

The three-stage transformation framework.

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WING V Training

File 16

Jesus Matters ZAP Training

A 365-day attachment devotional, walked through as a training.

Open → File 17

SNAP→SOLID: The Complete Codebreaker Series

Participant Workbook and Facilitator Guide.

Open → File 18

Premier SNAP→SOLID Training

A cinematic thirteen-module training deck.

Open → File 19

Understanding Attachment Styles

The Attachment Code Breaker Cheat Sheet for adoptive parents.

Open → File 20

Trauma Essentials

Trauma is not a trend. It is wiring.

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WING VI Media & Press

File 21

Facts Focus Fire Radio

Every first Monday, 11:00 AM Eastern, on Boss Hogg Radio.

Open → File 22

The Substack Commercial

Your nervous system got hacked in childhood, bestie.

Open → File 23

The Code Breaker Nation Tour

Seventeen worlds. One code.

Open → File 24

Innovation Spotlight Podcast

Two chairs. One mic. One code.

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WING VII Books & Publications

File 25

Amazon Author Page

Every title by Dr. Franklin Edward Shoemaker on Amazon.

Open → File 26

Dr. RAD™ The Attachment Code Breaker™ | Substack

The weekly decode, the Codebreaker Vault, and Founding Codebreakers.

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