Category Archives: Adversity
Part 8: Another Therapist I am going to change the name of this blog from " From Child Prostitute To Child Advocate" to " From Sex-Trafficked Child to Advocate". The first title seems to indicate some complicity on my part. Many people ignorantly believe that prostitution is something ...
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Part 7: Fear These new memories came more slowly and took much longer to process. One of the hardest parts was determining whether they were real. Sexual abuse was easy to understand and it was validated by the men she knew in her men's group. Even though people did not want to talk a ...
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Part 6: Transition By October Vicki recognized she was pregnant again. This was a miracle after a series of miscarriages and for sure would be her last. It was special even in Vicki’s busy life, but at 40 years old she recognized that she would not be able to make the long trip to see Is ...
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Our story is meant to aid in understanding the dynamics of human trafficking and child abuse—both victim and perpetrator—and especially to give insight into the violence of this particular kind of abuse. In the process of writing this—as you will see—it became obvious that sexual ...
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Our story is meant to aid in understanding the dynamics of human trafficking and child abuse—both victim and perpetrator—and especially to give insight into the violence of this particular kind of abuse. In the process of writing this—as you will see—it became obvious that sexual traffi ...
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Author Name Withheld~ Walking into a psychiatrist’s office is slightly un-nerving. “Those” places are for crazy people, right? There is a definite stigma associated with receiving mental help and we were no exception in feeling this. As we walked down the hall towards the clinic offi ...
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Our story is meant to aid in understanding the dynamics of human trafficking and child abuse—both victim and perpetrator—and especially to give insight into the violence of this particular kind of abuse. In the process of writing this—as you will see—it became obvious that sexual traffi ...
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