A safe place
for a new
beginning.

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