A brave woman who faked her own death to escape sex traffickers has turned her trauma into a thriving sex coaching business - and claims it's helped her love herself.
Jennelle Gordon, 37, from California, who is the founder of 'The O Factors'- a seven step program dedicated to tantric therapy - was a victim of sex trafficking at the age of 19.
She faked her own death to escape, and eventually fled to Thailand where she found solstice in tantra - a spiritual Indian practice that is based on a set of spiritual practices that direct the universal energies into the practitioner, leading to liberation.
After returning to the US pregnant with her son, the survivor created Beyond Freedom in 2017, an organization dedicated to helping other victims of sex trafficking.
Jennelle Gordon (pictured), 37, from California, was a victim of sex trafficking at the age of 19 and faked her own death to escape. She now offers support for other victims and teaches tantra
Jennelle, pictured with her son. The mother-of-one escape terrible sexual abuse and violence by traveling to Thailand, which is where she fell pregnant
Jennelle, pictured on holiday, said she learned to love herself again through the practice of tantra (pictured on holiday)
The former army vet was discharged from the military due to an injury and found herself without anywhere to go, after her 'extremist fundamental Christian cult' family shunned her.
Jennelle was picked up in Fort Hood Texas by a man who she believed cared about her and wanted to look after her, but within months she was drafted into his depraved world and pimped out to clients in exchange for cash.
Eventually Jennelle escaped, but she soon fell into the clutches of a dangerous and violent man who forced her into exotic dancing and sought to sexually exploit her.
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Share'They call them "finesse pimps," where he's pretending to be your boyfriend and in the end, he manipulates you into doing things and you're sexually exploiting yourself,' explained Jennelle.
'I was really miserable and wanted to get out of that situation and I started modeling with cars. I met a photographer from Vegas, I told him about what was going on, and he helped me escape my first trafficker, and then I moved to Vegas.'
She continued: 'I was waitressing at the time at Hooters in Vegas and I waited on my second abuser.'
The mother and army vet revealed she was manipulated and sexually exploited when she was 19. Pictured doing yoga now
Jennelle said she first heard of tantra in Texas and decided to make the move. Pictured, with her son in Paris
'Months later I was recovering from a really traumatic beating. I was forced to go back to work and I still had strangulation marks all over my body.
'I had bruises all over from being hit - I was not in a position to do anything let alone be in a strip club making money.
'I was working with my colleague, another dancer, and she said, "don't you want to be happy."' I had like $300 in my pocket and I needed like $3,000 to go home and not suffer the consequences. I just said, '"I want out".
'So, she reached out to him (her pimp) and told him, "there's been an accident and she's passed." He didn't even care so that broke the cycle of realizing that this person did not love me and that's how I was able to initially get away from him.
Jennelle told how she finally fled to Texas, but then got caught up in another situation.
'It was just what I knew, and you always go home to what you know,' she explained. 'What finally changed my journey was when a man walking into the club in San Antonio in Texas where he told me he had attended a tantra workshop and he said, "If you find a school, a research one, I'll send you."
'I didn't know this man from "Adam," but I had no one else, and when you have no one you have to trust someone, and so he sent me to the school I studied (tantra) at in Thailand.
Jennelle explained she found herself in Thailand and realized she wanted to dedicate her life to tantra (pictured)
The mother returned to the US in 2015, pregnant with her son, and with little education, decided to enroll in a few university classes
Jennelle got herself back on her feet thanks to a few friends and mentor and soon realized she wanted to help other women who had suffered abuse. Pictured, kissing her son
The yogi and tantra teacher explained she joined a few clubs while on campus, including the debate club. Pictured, in front of a poster
'I booked a ticket and I stayed there because it was so healing for me and I realized this was what I wanted to do with my life.
She continued: 'Growing up in what some might call an "extremist fundamental Christian cult" and then moving where sex was not talked about and definitely sending you to hell, and then moving into the extreme polar opposite of the exotic dance world.'
'And then moving to this whole other extreme of learning to see all energy as divine energy even sexual energy was just the healing that I needed.
'It was about learning to love yourself and that was the biggest message for me because I hated myself at that point.'
In 2015 Jennelle returned to the US, pregnant with her son. She was living in a friend's garage with her newborn in California and was desperately trying to figure out how she could give her son a better life.
Jennelle's background meant that she had a limited education, having only ever been home-schooled until she was at a seventh-grade level.
In 2017, Jennelle created 'Beyond Freedom,' which works with victims of sex trafficking and helps them to leave behind the horrors of being exploited. Pictured, writing in a book
The mother-of-one said she could empathize with other victims due to her own experience of sex trafficking (by herself on the beach)
A single mother, she enrolled in school, and thanks to a mentor was given somewhere more suitable to stay.
Her hardships were still looming, until a message from inspirational speaker, Tony Robbins, launched her career into a whole new dimension.
'I had a baby, postpartum, I'm a full-time student, I have learning difficulties as a result of multiple concussions and head trauma from ten years of abuse,' said Jennelle. 'I'm rying to keep a roof over my head - and I didn't want to live like that anymore, it was too much to bear.'
'I had given a speech at a class on campus and made a club and joined the debate team and realized that this was my mission to help other women like me to get out of that life or even to get out of that life.
'One night I was scrolling through Instagram and saw this post from Tony and it said, "stop worrying about what could go wrong and start thinking about all the things that could go right," and it just spoke to me in a way that I haven't experienced.
She continued: 'I commented on his post along with several other thousands of people, I never thought he was going to write me back.
'But when I woke up he had written me and said, "I want to help you and help you help more women. I want you to come to one of my events and I'd love to meet you and perhaps you could come speak to our school where we help women who have got out of that life."
'I met him, and he sent me to his retreat, and we developed a rapport and he kept sending me to his events.
The O Factors is a seven step programme dedicated to tantric therapy. Pictured, with her family
'After that I said, "well I don't just want a club, because no one takes me seriously if you have a club but if you have a non-profit you get a bit more respect and people will maybe take me more seriously and I can help more women," so I formed "Beyond Freedom".'
Born in 2017, 'Beyond Freedom' works with victims of sex trafficking and helps them to leave behind the horrors of being exploited.
As well as helping thousands of women navigate their lives beyond sex trafficking, Jennelle also coaches people as part of her tantra training.
In 2018 she developed 'The O-Factors' working with people from around the world to heal through tantric practices.
'What gives me my "X Factor" is that I've experienced every kind of physical and sexual abuse that you can probably imagine,' said Jennelle.
In 2018 she developed 'The O-Factors' working with people from around the world to heal through tantric practices.
Pictured: Jennelle and her son. She hopes sharing her story will inspire others to live their best life no matter what their circumstances
In 2018, Jennelle (pictured in the nude) developed 'The O-Factors' working with people from around the world to heal through tantric practices
'I can empathize and connect with people in a way that is effective and that's what people need, to feel connected and to feel heard and they don't want to feel judged,' she said.
'When you have someone with my past that is sitting in front of them, there is nothing that they can need to feel shameful about.
'The O Factor's main goal is to help men and women connect back to the intimacy within themselves, to understand that it's just an experience that it doesn't define them it doesn't negate what they're going to be, or if they're successful or not and it's just an experience, it's a painful one, but together we can shake the shame.'
Jennelle is set to release a book on her experience and is dedicating her time to raising her son and to continuing to help people who have been victims of abuse and trauma.
She hopes sharing her story will inspire others to live their best life no matter what their circumstances.
'No matter their trauma their triumph is greater, and people can truly live the outstanding life that they desire,' Jennelle said.
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