Emancipation Nation

Send a text In Part II we learn that even though Umaru is physically held as a trafficking victim and later threatened with prison, his spirit will not allow him to submit.  He fights back through hunger strikes, protests, and is even willing to lay down his life to save another. Throughout it all, he couldn't understand how in the name of religion his child enslavement began. During his life...

Send a text At the age of 7 Umaru was selected by his family to be the Chosen One. That meant that Umaru would have to go with a religious leader to receive the teachings. But instead young Umaru would become a child slave. After his escape he fell into the hands of human traffickers. Umaru's search for freedom took him across four countries.  He faced death and often didn't know how he...

Send a text Where were you? The name of the book and words spoken by an 11 year old abused and traumatized trafficking victim. Unlike Anne Frank who understood that people's hearts were still good, this victim that suffered horrific abuse is not questioning the actions of bad people. She understood that bad people did bad things. She asks the good people of the world a very poignant question:...

Send a text Relearning trust is the hallmark of recovery. While guerrilla pimps use violence right from the start, finesse pimps and many labor traffickers are con men. They use manipulation to become the person you want to see. Once they gain your trust, they exploit it and use it to their own advantage. Many survivors never want to trust again. But trust is the what makes life beautiful and rela...

Send a text Join us for the 6th Journey that focuses on assessing your past through an in-depth and honest self-examination. Knowing your past provides you understanding. Through understanding there can be healing. However the past doesn't dictate your future. We have the power to choose our future. We help survivors look across generations in their family to identify repeat patterns of dysfu...

Send a text The 5th Journey is all about minimizing external threats and increasing external safety by learning and increasing healthy boundaries and regulating our own emotions. 

Send a text 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." 

Send a text "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. 

Send a text 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....

Send a text 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. 

Send a text 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.

Send a text This week I discuss R. Kelly who was recently convicted of sex trafficking and racketeering. 

Send a text 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? Do...

Send a text This episode discusses the first journey of the TNT 12 Journeys Program for Survivors of Commercial Sexual Violence. Learn more about this trauma focused recovery program. Become a trained facilitator.

Send a text 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.

Send a text 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 i...

Send a text In a recent conversation with a survivor, she said that she had repeatedly gotten involved in unhealthy relationships. This was not only her experience but the experience of some other survivors as well. She jokingly asked if she had a mark on her forehead that attracted abusers and victimizers. In reality, trauma increases vulnerability. Vulnerability attracts predators. I explain.

Send a text 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). 

Send a text 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. 

Send a text Tune into this episode and learn about trauma including all of the physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral reactions to trauma. 

Send a text 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  

Send a text 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...

Send a text 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 i...

Send a text 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 severa...

Send a text 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