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What does real healing look like for trafficking survivors?

Going through cancer treatment showed me that I could be trusted as an expert of my own experience. We should treat trafficking survivors the same way

What does real healing look like for trafficking survivors?
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When I identify as a survivor of human trafficking, people are often more curious about the pain I endured than about the path that led to healing and leadership, where I stand today. It becomes, for them, all I am – rather than an aspect of my story. Within the anti-trafficking field, there is even a debate around what people like me should be called. Are we survivors? Victims? Advocates? Lived experience experts?