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SafeHope Home: A safe place for a new beginning.

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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The Beginning

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...

A New Chapter

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....

The Thing About Recovery

Aug 13, 20203 min read

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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...

Triggers

Jul 30, 20205 min read

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Triggers

After living a life full of traumatizing experiences, many things which may appear at first to be minor or insignificant to others may...

The Effects of Trafficking on Family & Friends

Jul 24, 20205 min read

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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...

Types of Pimps/Grooming

Jul 16, 20207 min read

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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...

Trust & Self-Esteem

Jul 9, 20204 min read

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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...

The Way Out?

Jul 2, 20204 min read

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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...

The Realization

Jun 25, 20206 min read

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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...

Re-Victimization… Again.

Jun 18, 20207 min read

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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...

Re-Victimization

Jun 12, 20205 min read

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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...

Living Life in the Fast Lane

Jun 4, 20206 min read

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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...

Introduction to the Sex Industry

May 28, 20208 min read

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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...

Teenage Instability

May 21, 20205 min read

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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...

Dysfunctional Childhoods

May 14, 20207 min read

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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...

Childhood

May 7, 20206 min read

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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...

Life before and at SafeHope Home

Apr 29, 20205 min read

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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...

What is love?

Apr 22, 20205 min read

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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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