The 5th Journey is all about minimizing external threats and increasing external safety by learning and increasing healthy boundaries and regulating our own emotions.
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Learn more about The Survivors Journey including the Survivor's Prayer and the 12 TNT promises made to those who participate in the TNT Survivors Journey Groups to learn their "Truths" and experience their "Transformations."
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"If there is no enemy within, the enemy without can do no harm." The 4th Journey is all about minimizing negative self-talk, address self-sabotaging core beliefs, and changing internal schemas to experience internal freedom.
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Chris Stark's new book "Carnival Lights" centers on the story of two native Ojibwe girls. Chris brilliantly weaves in the history of generational trauma still being suffered by the Ojibwe people and other native tribes. This history of abuse and broken treaties created vulnerabilities that left women and youth exposed to and at risk of being victims of sex trafficking. Listen and learn how U.S. institutions continue to play a part in treating Native Americans as commodities.
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In this episode I discuss the 3rd Survivors Journey, which focuses on individual trauma and triggers. We take the ACE Test together. I provide information on the famous ACE Study, how it came about, and what your ACE Score may mean for your health.
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This week we get back to our discussion on the TNT Survivor's Journey Groups. We provide an overview of the 2nd Journey in the 12 journey's toward recovery.
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This week I discuss R. Kelly who was recently convicted of sex trafficking and racketeering.
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Anna, Ashley, and I discuss our annual international Human Trafficking and Social Justice Conference. With over 2,000 people in attendance from 44 states, 26 countries ,and 186 presenters, we set the stage for our global tribe to connect, become educated, and inspired. Listen as we process what went well, what didn’t go so well, and our favorite moments. Did you miss the conference? Don’t worry we’ll catch you up. If you attended, listen to our best and worst moments.
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This episode discusses Step 1 of the 12-Step Program for Survivors of Commercial Sexual Violence. Learn more about this trauma focused recovery program. Become a trained facilitator.
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Healing from trauma requires internal work. TNT 12-Step groups help members who have experienced commercial sexual violence recover. We focus on healing trust, boundaries, relationships, shame, trauma, and triggers to regain voice, choice, and power. Learn more about TNT in this episode.
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Societal trauma is imposed by us when we only support victims of commercial sexual violence that fit neatly into an accepted narrative. Trauma happens by society when we get the "what" human trafficking is wrong, "who" the victims often are wrong, and "how" to best address the issue wrong. To support survivors of commercial sexual violence as well as the issue itself, we need to dismantle systems of oppression that work to see some victims as worthy and other victims as unworthy.
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In this episode we focus on various trauma treatments for survivors including the TRI-Phasic Model, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT, Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE), and Stress Inoculation Therapy (SIT).
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In this episode we focus on various trauma treatments for survivors including the TRI-Phasic Model, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT, Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE), and Stress Inoculation Therapy (SIT).
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Practicing trauma-informed care promotes a culture of safety, empowerment, and healing. into this episode and learn about the 3 E's of trauma, the 4 R's of a trauma-Informed care response, and the 5 key principles as described by SAMHSA.
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Tune into this episode and learn about trauma including all of the physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral reactions to trauma.
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When Dr Vanessa Bouche’ heard those words, she asked survivors about what they needed. She then built a business that employs and empowers survivors. Learn more about what she has provided the world, including a national database of human trafficking cases in the U.S. Find it at humantraffickingdata.org
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This week we welcome a driving force in anti-trafficking work involving rural and familial trafficking, Dr. Christi Bartman. She is the founder of the "Eyes Up Appalachia" Initiative, an organization dedicated to raising awareness and creating community initiatives and partnerships to combat human trafficking in Southeastern Ohio. Learn about one of her collaborative research projects called “Vulnerability Mapping” where she worked with university students to identify areas of high vulnerability for human trafficking.
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You want to get involved, but you are shy? You don’t feel like it’s your place? You’d rather wait until you finish school, quit your job, retire, move, your children get old enough, or you get old enough? Well…hold on to your hat because we have high school student Lela Tolajian that planned and implemented an International Week of Action Against Modern Slavery that was a 6-day event involving 20 countries.
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Diane Mull from End Child Labor is back to discuss the methodology she created called Pathways Advancing Viable Education/Employment (PAVE). PAVE is a thoughtful child centered approach that ensures that children receive services that are tailored to their needs while recognizing the situation in their family and the circumstances of their community. PAVE has been applied across several countries enabling them to more effectively respond to human trafficking.
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What happens when families that work in agriculture are exploited or trafficked? Join us and Diane Mull from End Child Labor to learn about unscrupulous farm labor contractors, paying taxes with few benefits, and how children have to manage going to school and also working the fields
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