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One difficult part of being a survivor of sex trafficking is learning how to live in a body that once felt like it didn’t belong to you. Trauma doesn’t always leave visible scars. Sometimes it changes how you see yourself, how safe you feel in your own body and how you cope with pain long after the trafficking has actually ended. For me, part of that has been how I see my body, how I feed it and how I have punished it. I wrote this to describe what the silent war within has f

Before I ever understood that I was being trafficked, I was already vulnerable, hurting and searching for connection in ways that made me easy to exploit. This is the story of how I entered the sex trade. It's not the full story of my trafficking experience but the beginning of a path I didn’t yet recognize as extremely dangerous. There are a lot of unanswered questions and confusion I still have to this day about my story and deep down I sometimes still feel I am to blame fo

I entered the sex trade when I was 18 years old. I was a first-year university student, far from home, trying to survive on student loans because my family did not have the means to pay for my education. One night, almost by accident, I walked into a club without realizing I had stepped into a strip club. I went in to make fun of it, honestly. A woman working as a server came up to me and told me I was beautiful. She said I would make good money. She said I could start by sel

Welcome back to my blog series. For those of you who don’t know me I go by the name Baby. It’s been a long time since I last posted partly because life has become so busy and partly because I don’t always know which parts of my journey to share and which parts to keep sacred just for me. Last year, I found the courage to report my trafficker. Ican’t speak much about that right now but through this experience I’ve learned so much about who I am and how I cope with my trauma fr

Hello everyone and welcome to my new blog series. My name is Baby and I have been given the amazing opportunity to share my experiences...

Hey everybody, it’s Reanie and I’m finally back! My life has been pretty chaotic this past month and unfortunately I haven’t had much...

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Hello everybody, It’s Reanie and I’m back again with another blog! Life has been really busy lately and honestly it’s not a bad thing!...

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Trigger Warning: talks about sexual abuse and addiction. Hello! My name is Reanie and I’m going to be taking over Safehope's blog for...

As a child what did the word Daughter mean to me? Well, the truth of the matter is I never gave this much thought until the other day...

Hello everyone, it’s Ruby! Man, I actually really miss the girls who are still at the house, and the others who had also moved on. We...

Entry Date: August 12th, 2023 Lately, I’ve been feeling this great deal of emptiness and loneliness, almost as if someone close to me had...

Hey everyone! It’s Ruby here. So lately I’ve been challenging myself, which is good because it helps negate my self-doubt. The last...

Hi everyone! Ruby here. Just came back from a lovely little retreat, the second one I’ve been on this year, and it was amazing. Getting...

Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault, Abuse, Drug Use, Suicide Hello Readers, My name is April, and I am extremely excited and honoured to...

Hi guys, Ruby here! I hope everyone is doing well. I definitely am. So I’ve been here just over a month, and I’m definitely digging it....