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OUR BLOG
Our blog features the stories from participants here at SafeHope Home who wanted to share her story with you. The blogs will be anonymous to protect their identities, all the other details of their journeys will be left as is. We hope that through this blog, you will gain insight into the issue of human trafficking that is happening here in Canada and that you’ll be encouraged to see that change, though a long journey, is possible.
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May 6, 20212 min read
The Beginning
Hey there, Ricky again. I hope you enjoyed the blog last week. This week I thought I would dive a little deeper into my story. Growing up...
Apr 29, 20212 min read
A New Chapter
Hi there, my name is Ricky. You may recognize me from a previous blog post. I made an appearance back in December around Christmas time....
Aug 13, 20203 min read
The Thing About Recovery
Here’s the thing about recovery… it’s not what you think. It never ends up being what you imagined it would be like. It’s terrifying and...
Jul 30, 20205 min read
Triggers
After living a life full of traumatizing experiences, many things which may appear at first to be minor or insignificant to others may...
Jul 24, 20205 min read
The Effects of Trafficking on Family & Friends
The parent or parents of a sexually trafficked and addicted individual typically take one of two paths. Either the parent decides to...
Jul 16, 20207 min read
Types of Pimps/Grooming
I can not manage to condense the experiences of the years in the sex industry in a few short blogs. There are many events experienced...
Jul 9, 20204 min read
Trust & Self-Esteem
Learning to trust again is quite the task after being taught not to trust for so long. I’d been brainwashed by traffickers, and by...
Jul 2, 20204 min read
The Way Out?
The journey out was as harrowing, confusing, and exhausting and seemingly endless as the journey in. Although the officer met me at the...
Jun 25, 20206 min read
The Realization
It was when my mum came to visit me in Ottawa that she noticed something was wrong instantly. Bear in mind I had painted a picture to...
Jun 18, 20207 min read
Re-Victimization… Again.
Love. I just wanted love. I refused to acknowledge how traumatized I was, or what I was doing with my life. I drank every day, and smoked...
Jun 12, 20205 min read
Re-Victimization
The next time I was trafficked was after leaving jail. I tried to work on my recovery again first though; I worked with withdrawal...
Jun 4, 20206 min read
Living Life in the Fast Lane
If you’re following along on the adventure that is my life, then welcome to the part where I make a LOT of mistakes. Let’s start at the...
May 28, 20208 min read
Introduction to the Sex Industry
With my sickness and mental health spiraling even more, and no results coming from doctors, my mum and I reached our wits end and decided...
May 21, 20205 min read
Teenage Instability
2010 brought with it a car accident, and then 2012′ brought with it a pregnancy. These are two major events that shaped my life...
May 14, 20207 min read
Dysfunctional Childhoods
My sister and I had been homeschooled, private schooled, and in the Catholic as well as the public school systems by the time I was 11 or...
May 7, 20206 min read
Childhood
When I was a child, my family moved around a LOT. I was born in Kingston, we were living in Delta at the time. Then my parents bought a...
Apr 29, 20205 min read
Life before and at SafeHope Home
Before coming to SafeHope Home, I had been to over 30 or 40 therapists in my life, probably more than that actually. Not a single one had...
Apr 22, 20205 min read
What is love?
Where do I begin? How can I begin to define something when I’ve never really witnessed it myself? We live in a world that is filled with...
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