Trudy Metzger

Trudy Harder Metzger was born in Fresnillo, Mexico, into an Old Colony Mennonite family marked by entrenched cycles of abuse and violence. Her memoir Between 2 Gods chronicles her childhood in Mexico and Ontario under a volatile, religiously legalistic father, and her eventual reckoning with two contradictory images of God — the angry deity of her upbringing and the God of grace she encountered as a young adult. After decades of personal transformation, Metzger became a certified John Maxwell Team Speaker, Coach, and Trainer. She works daily with survivors of sexual and domestic abuse, speaks at conferences, and co-founded Generations Unleashed, a registered Canadian charity that provides programs for those healing from abuse.