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Something Scary Happened

Helping Children Through Trauma

Darby Strickland

Something Scary Happened

Helping Children Through Trauma

Darby Strickland

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Something Scary Happened helps children process their feelings after experiencing a trauma and provides comfort through the story of a little lamb named Miles. 

Miles is a happy little lamb until something bad happens. All of a sudden, Miles feels like he is alone in a deep dark valley, but it is there in the valley that he meets his good Shepherd who promises to always be with him, no matter what. 

Counsellor and trauma expert Darby A. Strickland uses the story of Miles to help parents and caregivers share the comfort of taking their fears to the good Shepherd by applying Psalm 23 to difficult experiences.

Through a special section at the end of the book, Strickland helps parents recognize the feelings and behaviours children might have in response to their trauma and guides them in how to help children talk about what scared them. 


  • First book in the Comfort for Children in Hard Times series, edited by biblical counsellor Darby Strickland, addressing difficult experiences that children commonly face and offering gospel hope and help.
  • Children ages four to seven will be drawn to the playful illustrations by Carlotta Notaro. 
  • The companion minibook, When Children Experience Trauma: What to Do When Something Scary Happens by Darby A. Strickland is also available to give parents and caregivers more detailed help.  
  • Also available, a plush Miles toy lamb that gives kids something soft and comforting to cuddle when they’re scared and serves as a tangible reminder that the Shepherd who comforted Miles is also with them.
Darby Strickland

Darby Strickland

Darby is a faculty member and counsellor at CCEF, where she has served since 2003. She has a master of divinity with a counselling emphasis from Westminster Theological Seminary. Darby brings particular passion and expertise in helping the vulnerable and oppressed, especially women in abusive marriages. She has contributed to Church Cares and the PCA Domestic Abuse & Sex Assault church training materials. She has counselled in a missionary church setting and has also held leadership roles in women’s ministry. She is the author of Is it Abuse? (P&R, 2020), has written a handful of minibooks, and has contributed to several other books.

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