Mr. Ed’s Circle of TrustElevating Trauma to Trust · Dr. RAD™
Wing I · Who We Are

From the clinic
and the classroom.

Some children learned early that adults are not safe. Their behavior is not the problem. It is the message. For thirty-four years, two people have been listening.

File 01 · Welcome. Start here. // Transmission since 1992

Welcome to Dr. RAD™ The Attachment Code Breaker™

Original: drradwelcome.netlify.app

Crack the code. Reboot the bond. Elevate the whole house. If you are new, this is the launch pad. You are in the right place if you are done spinning in Reactive Attachment Disorder chaos and ready for the decode.

01 // Who this serves — the ones holding the line

  • Parents. Adoptive, foster, biological, and blended parents grinding through survival mode.
  • Educators. Educators and school leaders stuck in the school spin-cycle.
  • Clinicians. Mental health professionals tired of the caseworker shuffle.
  • Faith Leaders. Faith leaders stepping into the foster fog.
  • Advocates. Community advocates done with system fails.
  • Anyone who wants evidence-based, faith-anchored fire for the kids and teens who need it most.
Decode the pattern poster

04 // What you get — the payload. No fluff.

  • [01] Trauma-informed clinical truth
  • [02] Evidence that holds
  • [03] Research receipts without fluff
  • [04] Faith-anchored hope
  • [05] Tools for the real house
  • [06] The classroom read from the teacher who has the child in seat three

05 // Start here — pick a file. Break the code.

01

Understanding trauma in children and teens.

What is actually hijacking the system.

02

What attachment difficulties really look like.

Past the surface.

03

How maltreatment shapes attachment.

Straight from the 2016 dissertation.

04

SNAPPED. SHIFTED. SOLID.

The arc from rupture to repair.

05

ZAP. Zero-in. Activate. Propel.

The day you can actually finish.

06

Faith, resilience, and the family system.

Redemption that does not skip the wound.

07

Trauma-sensitive parenting tools.

How to stop the push-pull.

06 // How to use it

  1. Subscribe

    for the weekly decode.

  2. Comment.

    Do not do this alone.

  3. Use

    the resources page.

  4. Hand a post

    to the parent, teacher, or leader who is still guessing.

You are not failing. The code was never cracked for you. It is cracked now.

07 // Why subscribe — this is where the code breaks, and the family can breathe.

Free

Stay decoded. Stay armed.

  • Weekly insight posts: trauma echoes, connection glitches, bond breaks, survival mode, and the flip. Anonymous case notes. Faith-anchored reframes.
  • Research decoded. No jargon. What the data says about early maltreatment and trust crashes, and the move for the home, office, or classroom.
  • Sunday ZAP. Jesus Matters ZAP: Verse, Zero-in, Activate, Propel. Scripture and attachment science as partners, not rivals.
  • Early access to new series on trigger points, attachment reboots, and workshops.
  • A seat at the table. Parents, clinicians, teachers, and faith leaders. No isolation. No quick fix.
Paid · The Codebreaker Vault

All of the free fire, plus the arsenal.

  • Premium deep dives on RAD, adoption trauma, nervous-system hijacks, and family healing.
  • Research decodes and meta-analysis notes from 34 years of attachment work, including the 2016 dissertation spine.
  • Professional tools: guides, checklists, and hard-reset playbooks with editable files and citations.
  • Behind-the-scenes commentary, priority Q&A, and private threads.
  • Mission support: paid subscriptions fuel Mr. Ed’s Circle of Trust: low- and no-cost trauma-informed counseling, adoption-competent parent coaching, professional training, and faith-community programs.
Founding & Sponsor

You are funding the decode.

  • Name or organization on the Founding Codebreakers wall, if you want it there.
  • Quarterly briefings on the latest files, emerging research, and the next play.
  • First look and input on new resources and series.
  • Private virtual roundtables with the authors and leaders in attachment and trauma work.
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File 02 · Mission File · Case No. 1992–Now

The Dr. RAD™ Mission

Original: drradmission.netlify.app

This is where the attachment code shatters. And the breakthrough is not a slogan. It is a sequence.

  • Evidence-based
  • Trauma-informed
  • Faith-anchored
  • Clinic + Classroom

01 / The Breach — RAD-Unfiltered Fire.

We decode the trauma loops, trust crashes, and attachment fallout that keep families in survival mode. Dr. Franklin Edward Shoemaker, PhD, LMHC-QS, and Tonya A. Sharrett-Shoemaker, MA arm parents, caregivers, teachers, therapists, and faith leaders.

Method: Evidence-based · Lens: Trauma-informed · Bedrock: Faith-anchored · Arena: Clinic & Classroom.

No more guessing. No more “just try harder.” No magic wand.

From the Clinic and the Classroom — No Magic Wand cover art with a shattered padlock

04 / Decrypted — The RAD Code

Faith-anchored fire.

Every child is built on purpose, with worth that trauma did not cancel. Faith is not an add-on. It is the bedrock for hope, for the shift, and for healing that is also redemption.

Evidence-based solid.

We do not trade in theories. Clinical research, brain science, and frontline receipts. Franklin’s 2016 dissertation put the link between child maltreatment and severe attachment wounds on paper. The work since 1992 has tested it in the room.

Trauma-informed truth.

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.

Family-centered breakthroughs.

Adoptive, foster, blended, biological. We meet you in the burnout, the chaos cycle, and the push-pull. Real strategies. Not a behavior chart taped over a broken bond.

Integrity in leadership.

Principled, transparent, service first. Franklin chairs the Polk County Housing Finance Authority and the Medulla Elementary School Advisory Council. The work outside the session is part of the work.

06 / Clarity a parent can use at 2 a.m. No jargon. No soft lies.

  1. Reality check

    What is actually happening in the nervous system right now.

  2. Deep dive

    Why the loop keeps running, and where it started.

  3. Propel step

    One move, finished before supper.

Decode it. Reboot it. Elevate it. Together.

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File 03 · Now showing · Lakeland, Florida · since 1992

The Voices Behind Dr. RAD™

Original: behindthevoices.netlify.app

For 34 years, since 1992, we have been in the room where attachment breaks. Reactive Attachment Disorder. Trauma loops. Nervous-system hijacks. Push-pull. Trust crashes. Bond breaks. Attachment fallout that hits adoptive and foster families like a freight train. One of us came from the clinic. One of us came from the classroom.

That “out-of-control” behavior is not straight defiance. It is a connection glitch.

Built by early trauma, often by loss. Kids lock into survival mode. Families spin into chaos cycles, parent burnout, and emotional landmines nobody put on the intake form. We have seen it. We have lived it. We have spent decades writing it down.

Case file · The Clinic · The clinical architect

Dr. Franklin Edward Shoemaker, PhD, LMHC-QS

Franklin is the clinical architect behind Dr. RAD™ The Attachment Code Breaker™. His 2016 dissertation, Examining the Relationship between Child Maltreatment and Severity of Attachment Difficulties Among Children Ages Five and Older, put receipts on the link between maltreatment and severe attachment wounds.

He is Founder, President, and CEO of Elevating Trauma to Trust, operating as Dr. RAD™ The Attachment Code Breaker™, under Mr. Ed’s Circle of Trust, Inc. Crisis intervention. Long-haul healing. Pre- and post-adoption support. Science plus faith-anchored fire.

Healing is not only recovery. It is redemption.

Lesson plan · The Classroom · The educational voice & heart translator

Tonya A. Sharrett-Shoemaker, MA

Florida Certified Professional Educator, ESE K-12, Elementary, and ESOL. MA in Counseling Psychology. Teacher at Medulla Elementary in Lakeland. Teacher of the Year, 2024.

She reads the child in seat three before the behavior plan ever gets written. The classroom is where attachment fallout shows up as a referral, a shutdown, or a kid nobody can reach by lunch. She turns the clinical code into language a parent can use at 2 a.m. and a teacher can use before the bell.

Scene 03 — Not theory. Home.

We raised an adopted daughter with RAD and two sons with attachment difficulty. We write together. SNAPPED. SHIFTED. SOLID. and ZAP — Zero-in. Activate. Propel. — carry both names, including Jesus Matters ZAP, because:

The clinic without the classroom = theory.
The classroom without the clinic = another behavior chart.

From Lakeland — not side quests

Role / HonorOrganization
ChairPolk County Housing Finance Authority
Former PresidentSunrise Rotary Club of Lakeland
Former ChairPolk County District Advisory Council
Former BoardUCF Partnership Advisory and Lead Advocate for Polk County Partnership School
Former BoardChildren’s Home Society of Greater Lakeland
Former BoardLearning Resource Center of Polk
2016 HonoreeTop 100 Influencers of Central Florida
2021 InducteeNorthcentral University National Society of Leadership and Success
School Advisory ChairMedulla Elementary

They are how stability gets built outside the session.

Crack it. Shift it. Own it. Elevating trauma to trust.

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File 04 · Clinician · Educator · Authors · Advocates

Invite Ed & Tonya

Original: inviteedandtonya.netlify.app

Decode the patterns. Break the cycles. Transform the future.

Dr. Franklin “Ed” Shoemaker and Tonya Sharrett-Shoemaker have spent more than three decades in residential treatment rooms, courtrooms, foster homes, and classrooms — beside the children everyone else called “too much.” Now their work lives on the page, too.

  • 34 years in the trenches
  • PhD, LMHC-QS
  • Nationally certified TF-CBT clinician
  • Nationally accredited adoption specialist
  • 2024 Teacher of the Year
  • 13 books · No Magic Wand series
  • Irene Sullivan Adoption Advocacy Award nominee
  • 6 Florida counties · the hardest cases
34 years. Zero wands. poster

Act I — Before they were authors, they were in the room.

From the Clinic · “Mr. Ed” · “Dr. Ed”

Dr. Franklin Edward Shoemaker

A practitioner-scholar with 34 years across residential treatment, forensic psychology, therapeutic foster care, clinical leadership, and trauma-responsive education. His 2016 doctoral research examined how child maltreatment fuels the severity of attachment difficulties in children ages five and older — and he has spent his career turning that evidence into a different response to struggling kids.

Trusted on cases across Pinellas, Pasco, Sarasota, Hernando, Polk & Hillsborough counties. Nominated for the Irene Sullivan Adoption Advocacy Award, Pinellas County (2011).

From the Classroom · Educator · Counselor

Tonya A. Sharrett-Shoemaker

An award-winning educator, counselor, and trauma-responsive visionary named 2024 Teacher of the Year, with more than 21 years of classroom leadership and more than 34 years working with at-risk, traumatized children, teens, and families. Tonya knows what a child carries through the school door — and what a parent in crisis can actually hold onto at two in the morning.

Co-author, From the Clinic and the Classroom — No Magic Wand.

Facts. Focus. Fire. From research to a different response.

Facts.

What the evidence says maltreatment does to a child’s ability to trust.

Focus.

Look beneath the behavior — through the lens of trauma, not blame.

Fire.

The resolve to respond differently, every day, until safety takes root.

“That makes your Facts, Focus, and Fire framework more than a slogan.”

Eleanor Kensington, Co-Organizer, Prominent Book Club

Invited to the table

  1. Prominent Book Club

    Featured Author Presentation — Breaking the Attachment Code.

  2. Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Meetup

    Live December author event on Google Meet — Jesus Matters ZAP.

  3. Oprah’s Book Club community on Goodreads

    6-month reading challenge — Round Town Rumors.

Somewhere, a parent is searching at 2 a.m. Help them find this. Share this page with a foster family, an adoptive parent, a caseworker, a teacher, or a book club. Then invite Ed and Tonya to speak, train, or join your reader community: book club or author event, conference or keynote, professional training (trauma & attachment), clinical or adoption consultation, or a podcast or media interview.

Family and professional testimonials from this page live on the National Wall of Witness. Books featured here are listed in Books.

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