Shaw Enterprises, LLC

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The pattern starts in childhood. Kids learn early that big emotions are dangerous. So they avoid them. Phones, isolation, perfectionism, people-pleasing: anything to not feel the pain. By the teen years, those avoidance strategies become automatic. Substances, numbing behaviors, and emotional shutdown become the solution.

The real cost? Giving power away. When you perform for others' approval, you hand them control of your peace. When you blame circumstances or other people for your pain, you surrender your power to change it. The pattern isn't just about addiction. It's about living at the mercy of external validation, vulnerable to manipulation, guilt trips, and the constant need to prove your worth to someone else.

By adulthood, the damage compounds. 35% of divorces cite addiction as a key factor. Children of addicted parents are 3-4x more likely to repeat the same patterns. Relationships fracture. Families break. The same nervous system that learned "emotions = threat" in childhood is now running the show in marriages, in parenting, in every intimate connection.

Then it shows up at work. 82% of the workforce is at risk for burnout. One-third of employees report that mental health challenges from home directly affect their productivity. The same wiring that says "avoid the pain" becomes "numb out," "check out," "react," "shut down." 

Leadership suffers. Teams fracture. Performance tanks.

This is the continuum:

Childhood neural pathways → teen emotion avoidance → addictive/numbing behaviors → damaged adult relationships → workplace productivity loss.

TRIGGERZ® interrupts this pattern at ANY point, not by eliminating pain, but by building your capacity to hold it.

The goal isn't to make you feel less. It's designed to help you feel more and stay present while you do. To respect pain as information, not threat. To process it, release it, transform it into a conscious choice. Empowerment.

Layer by layer, you stop needing external validation to determine your identity and self-worth. You discover the peace that comes from internal validation. You become immune to manipulation. Immune to guilt trips. You stop performing for others' approval and start performing from the authenticity of your being, allowing others the freedom to form their own perceptions.

The power you gain isn't control over others. It's responsibility for control of yourself. And through that responsibility, you experience the greatest levels of peace and freedom you've ever imagined. And it's never capped. There's always another layer.

The mindset shifts: from blaming others and actively giving away control, to seeing pain as an opportunity to release a wound within yourself. Taking back control. Gaining power from within.

Not building something new. Revealing what's always been there: YOU.

Transforming pain into power. Trading the need for external validation for the peace of internal validation.

When you change the wiring, you change the outcome.

 Shaw Enterprises was awarded an $81,000 Kansas Community Organization Grant to deliver the TRIGGERZ® program to teens ages 12-18 in Wyandotte, Geary, Harvey, and Reno counties.

The crisis in these four counties is real:

• Wyandotte County: 48.5% of children have experienced at least one adverse childhood experience, such as abuse, neglect, witnessing violence, or household substance use. Violent crime is nearly double the state average.

• Reno County: Suicide-related ER visits among school-aged children reach nearly 3% in some zip codes. Overdoses involving methamphetamine, alcohol, and opioids are climbing.

• Harvey County: 40% of Kansas children have at least one Adverse Childhood Experience. Families depend on child advocacy centers because abuse remains a persistent threat.

• Geary County: Severe childcare shortages and a juvenile system that pushes youth into jail-like facilities instead of therapeutic care.

The pattern is clear: Kids growing up in chronic stress learn that emotions equal danger. By young adulthood, numbing becomes survival. Substances become the solution.

Here's the challenge: The grant operates on a reimbursement basis. Shaw Enterprises must deliver the program first and be reimbursed later.

To start sessions March 1, 2026, we need to raise the full $81,000 by February 1, 2026.

That's where your donation comes in. When you give through Muller Recovery, you fund immediate program delivery for the teens who need it most, with full tax-deductible benefits.