Emancipation Nation

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Self-forgiveness is one of the  most important journeys for survivors to process through. Learn more about the practice of self forgiveness along this trauma-focused survivors journey to healing and recovery.

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AEquitas provides technical assistance to prosecutors. They educate, sensitize, and equip prosecutors to effectively prosecute cases, including cases of human trafficking.  They will provide this assistance across any state and most countries. If you know of a case being prosecuted in your community, let the prosecutor know that they can reach out and get the support and technical assistance they need. 

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There are spoken and unspoken beliefs, obligations, and loyalties you honor that keep you from living your full flavored life and achieving both joy and your higher purpose. In the 9th Journey we reveal some of these beliefs, obligations, and loyalties and ask if you will continue to choose to honor them or if  you will adopt ones that most benefit you. 

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In this solo episode we return to discuss the Survivors Journey. This week we provide an overview of the 8th Journey, which is all about establishing and maintaining healthy relationships. Taking care of yourself is not selfish. It's self-care.

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What? There is a national collaboration of those offering housing to trafficking survivors? And there are essential standards of care that we should all be providing? Learn about this amazing collaborative service, how to get involved, how to refer a client,  and the continued gaps in services that need to be filled.

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Ever heard the saying "You are who you hang around?" Toxic people drain your physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual energy. Meaningful self-care in 2022 means learning how to reveal the toxic and nurturing people in your life. Want to increase your happiness and productivity? Go into the new year identifying, exposing, and distancing yourself from toxic others and strategically bring nurturing people closer to you. 

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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 lifetime Umaru witnessed the trafficking of hundreds of minors. He learns that he is the chosen one. He lives to tell the story, forgive his captors, and to help others as a civil rights investigator. 

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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 would make it. Each time he was able to get away from his captors and accept the help and kindness of others. Listen to Part I of his story. It reminds us of why we do this work.

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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: Where were you?  Matt Friedman of The Mekong Club has been there to answer for 30 years.

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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 relationships meaningful. Relearning to trust means relearning to trust in yourself and in trustworthy others.