The goal of T.A.Ps is to help those dealing with PTSD find support for and freedom from their trauma
10/21/2024
It's going to take me some time, but I'm going to be relaunching The Archangel Programs (T.A.Ps) as soon as possible. There will be some major changes coming to it, but it's sat on the shelf long enough and there are a lot of folks like me with severe C-PTSD that have fallen through the cracks and it's time to remedy that!
Stay tuned!
03/26/2022
Another amazing day out in nature making an impact with our neighbors and new friends! Working together to return our beautiful backcountry roads to clean, safe, and trash free. ๐บ๐ฒ
Well done for another successful Rubbish Recovery Ruck with the Archangel Rucking Crew: Missouri Misfits ๐
Thank you to everyone who came out and helped today! In April we'll be out again and can celebrate Earth Day with a cleaner rural community together. ๐
Lastly, thanks to our local White River Valley Electric Cooperative for a community grant that allows us to provide safety equipment and supplies to be able to continue doing these events!
03/14/2022
DATE/TIME CHANGE for March Rubbish Recovery Ruck โ
We ended up switching over the roadside clean-up event this month to Saturday 3/26 at 10 am and an informal free lunch to follow.
We always so appreciate everyone's help and hard work, so why not feed you as we get to know one another! :)
If you have friends on the Nextdoor app, we have it posted (and updated) there as well:
Find local events on Nextdoor, the neighborhood hub.
02/27/2022
Another awesome ruck and community service event today with the Archangel Rucking Crew: Missouri Misfits and friends!
Thanks to lots of local friends for all your work today. We got loads of garbage cleared out despite the ice.
See you again next month ๐ช
GORUCK
12/19/2021
Christmas Community Service Ruck Flashback ๐๐๐งโ๐
12/06/2021
Thanks to the Three Musketeers (and furry side kick) we knocked out the White Ash road volunteer roadside cleanup on Saturday.
The Rubbish Recovery Ruck was a success for sure! ๐บ๐ฒ We met neighbors, witnessed a controlled forest burn, and cleaned up many many bags of litter to keep them out of the local waterways (the truck load doesn't include the two full bags a neighbor disposed of for us).
As always with any good The Archangel Programs (T.A.Ps) event and Archangel Rucking Crew: Missouri Misfits ruck, it was good exercise including gravel hills ๐ช
Thanks go to White River Valley Electric Cooperative for their financial support of supplies and safety equipment to keep us going ๐
Cheers to a great final event for 2021 and we look forward to seeing you at future events ๐
10/23/2021
Thanks to everyone who came out this morning to play in the rain with us! Puppy approved ๐ถ
The Mile 2.0 - October Ruck Challenge at ROYAL Barbell
As always, thank you to White River Valley Electric Cooperative for their generous sponsorship to help make community cleanup events and mental health support rucks possible ๐
09/18/2021
Way to go out there today at the Rubbish Recovery Ruck with the Archangel Rucking Crew: Missouri Misfits ๐
Two giant black contractor bags of trash, one bucket, and one tire are now off our scenic country roads and away from our local water systems.
Thanks for coming out for a quick 1.8 mile ruck, some community service, and making new friends ๐บ๐ฒ
Special thanks to White River Valley Electric Cooperative for you support to help keep our participants safe and filling up those bags ๐ฎ
09/12/2021
๐ It's great to see our Ruck 'N' Run friends featured this month in the Springfield, Missouri Springfield FitLife magazine ๐บ๐ฒ
Get yourself to their upcoming event on Saturday 11/6/21.
Details at RuckNRun.org ๐
08/30/2021
It's always great to look back and reflect on the amazing people we've been able to ruck beside ๐
08/22/2021
What a great event! Thank you to Alex and his beautiful family for joining James, Rick, and me on Friday night for the Highlandville Rubbish Recovery Ruck. We knocked out the two miles in no time!
We didn't get a final rubbish bag photo, but we filled an entire bin.
We will be sharing another event in September, so keep your eyes open for that ๐
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There are many people with many stories. Stories that never get to be told because they have no voice. They are buried beneath the rubble of a traumatic event that forever changed the course of their life and become lost within who they currently are while struggling to find who they were meant to be.
This prison of the mind isnโt one that many can even see. Itโs a result of our brain attempting to quantify that traumatic event and protect us (and itself) how ever it can. Unfortunately this creates chaos and broken relationships, not to mention broken lives because the brain doesnโt always comprehend the emotional impact associated with traumatic events. To quote Vulcans, โemotions arenโt logical.โ And our brains thrive on logic.
Through his understanding of this, as well as learning about and fighting through his own traumatic events and PTSD, our founder came up with the idea for a program that will assist those living the hell of PTSD and working alongside them to not only overcome the cause of their traumatic event, but to also step into the greatness contained within themselves.
This is where T.A.Ps came from; the acronym itself containing multiple definitions.
When most people hear the word TAPs, they think of bugles or horns being played in the military. The song itself signifies respect, reverence, and acknowledgement of passing from one event to another. This was fitting for the first part of our mission as we help put these traumas and triggers to rest.
In most major world religions, the term Archangel signifies a being with great power; second only to God. These angels were called upon to be messengers of Godโs will, changing the course of the lives they touched. We believe that same power lies within each of us, buried beneath memories and emotions that hold us back from realizing just how great our created made us to be. Until now.
Through The Archangel Programs, we are working directly with people yearning to overcome their traumatic pasts so that they can step into their own, personal greatness. To experience the freedom of life not beaten down by past events. Validating who they are, what theyโve lived through, accepting that it was s**t and helping them turn that s**t into fertilizer for a greater good. It is no accident that the word INVALID means both a person made weak or disabled by illness or injury and being without foundation or force in fact, truth, or law. For to long those like us whoโve suffered have invalidated ourselves and our experiences. That ends now!
Itโs time to bring that chapter to a close and step into the greatness we were destined for. We are returning the voices to the voiceless and will build a foundation that will change the course of lives for generations to come!
Itโs time we became the Archangels our communities need us to be. And we will do this!