Rebecca and I chat about the 6 years she spent being sex trafficking in Vegas, her new book In Pursuit of Love, the various forms exploitation and trafficking can take on, the increased risk for those living in vulnerable situations, the necessity of trauma informed care, God's consistent long term pursuit of her heart, and some red flags of human trafficking.

5:03 Rebecca'sstory is one of radical transformation and is shared in great detail in her new book In Pursuit of Love. She takes us back and shares her  story of being trafficked as a teenage girl?"I would have never been put in an at-risk youth category."

"I met a guy who had all the answers to all my problems as a young, 18 year old, single mom...There are some real vulnerabilities in that [single, teen mom]."

"I think there is a lot to say about young girls, especially 18-24, who are raised in a culture where sex sells...."

Group Think: the practice of thinking or making decisions as a group in a way that discourages creativity or individual responsibility.

"According to FBI, less than 5% of trafficking victims in America are kidnapped."

"In real life it [human trafficking] doesn't happen quickly. It's a gradual expansion. There's no A to Z.  It is A to B. The next month B to C. The next month C to D."

Turn out is slang for trafficking a girl.

"Working in the commercial sex industry, even if it is through dancing, through stripping, it's a way to make quick money for people that don't have a lot of options and don't have a lot of choices and feel really trapped and might not be able to wait 2 weeks to pay the rent or buy food."

"Even within strip clubs, women are being trafficked."

Stable is slang for the home the trafficker has multiple victims.

19:12Rebecca shares what a weekend was like when she was being sex trafficked."It's hard to describe. It felt like my sanity was slipping away from me. I started feeling like I was going crazy and I didn't know how to pull myself together enough to let the dust settle, because the dust never settled. I just needed a minute to think, but the minute never came. You start to feel your sanity slipping away....Just from the mental health of constant physical abuse and the constant fear."

26:56 Rebecca talks about trauma informed care and why is it vital for women and men who have been trafficked?SHOW NOTES continued

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