by RAHAB Editorial Team | Mar 3, 2023 | Education and Awareness
Buying sex is illegal throughout most of the United States, yet human trafficking remains an issue. Despite it being outlawed, there are still people buying sex in our communities. The question stands, who are these people? While it isn’t easy to profile a sex buyer,...
by RAHAB Editorial Team | Nov 25, 2022 | Trauma and Healing
Grounding tools and exercises are invaluable skills to have in your back pocket. At RAHAB, we use them both with the women and children we serve and with ourselves. Below are different tools separated by the amount of effort and what the tool primarily focuses on (the...
by RAHAB Editorial Team | Nov 11, 2022 | Truth Matters
“How could they do that to her, she’s somebody’s daughter!” Popularized in recent media, “somebody’s daughter” has become a phrase commonly used when referring to victims and survivors of violent crimes. We hear it a lot when we talk about trafficking survivors....
by RAHAB Editorial Team | Oct 14, 2022 | Trauma and Healing
The darkness. It’s drowning. It’s heavy. This weight is paralyzing. Isolating. No one gets it. No one can possibly understand the pain and confusion and separation I am under. The easiest escape is often to let it consume me. Because the pain is familiar, at least. I...
by RAHAB Editorial Team | Sep 2, 2022 | Trauma and Healing
Humans are built for hope. It is the very thing that drives us, keeps us going. Hope allows us to look forward to a new day, to have goals and desires. It allows us to persevere in the darkest of times, to believe that something better is yet to come. Hopelessness...