Download or read book Peace After Abortion written by Ava Torre-Bueno and published by . This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Her Choice to Heal written by Sydna Masse and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2009 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her Choice to Heal guides women through post-abortion healing by sharing personal stories and offering practical tools, compassionate support, and hope in Christ.
Download or read book You re Not Alone written by Jennifer O'Neill and published by Health Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're pro-life or pro-choice, you probably agree on one thing: abortion hurts women, both mentally and physically. Unfortunately, both sides are guilty of ignoring the individual in favor of the higher moral ground. No more. This book is designed to help people heal from their abortions on an individual level, and to finally be able to put guilt, shame, fear, doubt and other negative feelings behind them forever. Jennifer O'Neill's approach to healing is Christ-centered, showing post-abortive women that God still loves them, and that they should therefore love themselves. She should know--she felt guilt and shame over her own abortion for years. And she is not alone in that pain. This book: presents the symptoms of post-abortion syndrome (experienced by 80 percent of post-abortive women) incorporates a step-by-step, faith-based process for healing that incorporates Scripture provides true stories of women and men who have struggled with the affects of abortion includes resources for help and support Not just for the woman herself, this book is the perfect comfort and guide for people with friends, daughters or loved ones struggling with the after-effects of abortion, whether recent or long in the past. Key Features Focuses on personal stories of healing from more than 25 women, including Jennifer O'Neill herself. Takes women through a series of feeling--guilt, shame, honesty and grieving--that ultimately lead to personal and divine forgiveness. The central tenet is that God always loves you, no matter what happens, a message many post-abortive women don't get from their church communities, but which they desperately need.
Download or read book Forbidden Grief written by Theresa Karminski Burke and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a review of the author's experience in counselling hundreds of women for abortion-related emotional problems. Dr Burke exposes the obstacles in the way of post-abortion healing, reviews the full range and depth of post-abortion adjustment problems, and illustrates how we can create a more understanding and healing society. -- book cover.
Download or read book Forgiven and Set Free written by Linda Cochrane and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gently guides hurting women through painful emotions and memories to lasting healing and forgiveness. For solo or group use.
Download or read book Cradle My Heart written by Kim Ketola and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abortion continues to be a hot topic in politics, womens rights, and medical practice. But for the eight to ten million American Christian women who have had one, abortion is a spiritual issue as well, raising questions of life and death, heaven and hell, grief and loss. Writing from her own experience, Kim Ketola sheds light on one of the darkest and most neglected personal issues of our time: the widespread need for healing and spiritual recovery after abortion. After abortion brought the worst trouble into my life I had ever known, writes Ketola, I just couldnt see my way free to believe in Gods love. With a compassionate heart, Ketola offers ten true stories of healing promise from the Bible to help women answer the most common spiritual torments they face: Is abortion a sin? Does God hate me? Where can I turn in my shame and distress? How could I ever tell anyone the truth? And more. Inspired by Romans 6:4--just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life"--this is a definitive resource to help women see themselves and God anew and--finally--to find spiritual healing.
Download or read book The HEALING CHOICE written by Dana Dovitch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two psychotherapists present a supportive guide to coping with the emotional and psychological aftermath of abortion, offering a step-by-step program that combines information, reassurance, and guidance to help women begin the process of recovery. “This is a book for any women who feels psychological pain from her abortion…this is not a book about judgment, politics, or religion.” –from the authors’ introduction Few women can walk away from the experience of abortion without some lingering emotional discomfort. Unresolved feelings of guilt, shame, and sadness may not surface until months, often years, after an abortion. We may lead outwardly normal lives, but these emotions can continue to cast a shadow, having a negative impact on personal relationships, coloring our moral or religious beliefs, even causing anxiety when we deal with a planned pregnancy. These feelings, if ignored, can possibly manifest themselves in more troubling ways, resulting in unstable relationships, self-destructive and addictive behaviors, depression, and low self-esteem. Now, two experienced psychotherapists share their approach to dealing with sensitive and long-overlooked issue of post-abortion pain or trauma. The Healing Choice breaks the silence surrounding a topic often clouded by debate and focuses exclusively on helping women chart a path toward emotional recovery. Through a step-by-step process, complete with self-tests, exercises, and interviews with women who share their own post-abortion experiences, Dr. Candace De Puy and Dr. Dana Dovitch will help you come to terms with your post-abortion emotions and offer support as you begin the process of healing.
Download or read book Her Choice to Heal Finding Spiritual and Emotional Peace After Abortion written by Sydna Massé and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transforming Your Story A Path to Healing After Abortion written by Wendy Giancola and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following an abortion, many women may be confused by their emotional and behavioral responses, such as regret, anger, depression, shame, loss, or loneliness. They may have relationship or intimacy problems and have difficulty giving and receiving forgiveness.Transforming Your Story: A Path to Healing after Abortion is an abortion recovery resource created for use in small facilitated groups to provide healing support. It can also be beneficial for those who are seeking healing individually with support from a friend, mentor, or helping professional.In this book, stories from the Bible provide an avenue for women to explore their own stories and process their conflicting emotions one step at a time. Personal questions delve into the heart and mind, spiritual tools and symbolic actions are suggested to engage the body and mind, and prayer is encouraged to open the heart and spirit to hope and peace. Accounts by women who have found healing from a past abortion foster a sense of community and provide encouragement.By hiking this path to recovery, a woman can transform her painful story of confusion into a story of hope and healing.
Download or read book Where Do Broken Hearts Go written by Jane Abbate and published by Messy Miracles. This book was released on 2010 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You Can't Change Your Past. You CAN Change Your Future. Whether you are pro-life, pro-choice, or undecided on abortion, one fact is clear: There is a great emotional price paid by virtually all women who have chosen to terminate a pregnancy. Following an abortion there can be a stressful, soul-searching period extending for years or decades. Where Do Broken Hearts Go? neither points fingers nor makes judgments. It simply acknowledges reality and counsels women - and men - on how to move forward in their lives with purpose and fulfillment after an abortion. Its approach is built on the foundation that God does not expect us to be perfect - He wants to forgive us and love us as we learn and grow from our experiences. With sensitivity and compassion, author Jane Abbate addresses such issues as how to: * break free from denial and confusion about your past * find relief from toxic guilt and shame * release and replace anger and anxiety with peace and hope * find comfort from hurtful feelings of heartbreak, regret and loneliness * connect profoundly and tangibly to the ultimate source of comfort and joy This is a practical guide to healing on many levels. It is filled with a wealth of usable information from the author's personal, hard-gained experience, plus inspiration from uplifting scriptural passages. It shines a gentle light on the path to reclaiming a life of self-respect, love and happiness. It is a much-needed resource for anyone who has gone through an abortion and for those who love and counsel them.
Download or read book My Secret Loss written by Sheila M. Luck and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A ministry must - [My Secret Loss is] personal, biblical, insightful, purposeful, helpful, truthful, useful and full of grace and truth for those struggling with such a loss." - Laurie McIntyre, Pastor of Creative Arts, Elmbrook Church, Brookfield, WI"Sheila has opened the pages of her heart to all women who need to know their story is able to be shared. In writing this workbook, she has provided an opportunity for hurting women to find the source of all comfort, our Lord, Jesus Christ. May the participants experience the freedom of knowing reconciliation is possible and be aware of God's healing blessings." - Jeannie Hannemann, M.A. Founder and Executive Director of Elizabeth Ministry International. We were told it would be easy. We thought it was the best choice; but now we suffer with the consequences, the regular reminders, a sense of guilt, and a sense of shame. Through abortion, we now face the death of our babies, death by choice. We try to hide our choice and we try to escape the emotional pain. We seek forgiveness, acceptance, and consolation; yet, we find no solace. Our fears drive us into a life of secrecy, hiding our loss. We suffer a secret loss.My Secret Loss will: * Enable the reader to accept the truth about abortion* Provide permission and encouragement to grieve the loss of your baby* Validate your emotional and psychological harm that has been caused by abortion * Discover the path to peace, healing that is only possible through the saving grace of Jesus
Download or read book Finding Peace After Abortion written by Loraine Allison and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book After Roe written by Mary Ziegler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision legalizing abortion, Roe v. Wade continues to make headlines. After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate cuts through the myths and misunderstandings to present a clear-eyed account of cultural and political responses to the landmark 1973 ruling in the decade that followed. The grassroots activists who shaped the discussion after Roe, Mary Ziegler shows, were far more fluid and diverse than the partisans dominating the debate today. In the early years after the decision, advocates on either side of the abortion battle sought common ground on issues from pregnancy discrimination to fetal research. Drawing on archives and more than 100 interviews with key participants, Ziegler’s revelations complicate the view that abortion rights proponents were insensitive to larger questions of racial and class injustice, and expose as caricature the idea that abortion opponents were inherently antifeminist. But over time, “pro-abortion” and “anti-abortion” positions hardened into “pro-choice” and “pro-life” categories in response to political pressures and compromises. This increasingly contentious back-and-forth produced the interpretation now taken for granted—that Roe was primarily a ruling on a woman’s right to choose. Peering beneath the surface of social-movement struggles in the 1970s, After Roe reveals how actors on the left and the right have today made Roe a symbol for a spectrum of fervently held political beliefs.
Download or read book Shout Your Abortion written by Amelia Bonow and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the U.S. Congress’s attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, the hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion became a viral conduit for abortion storytelling, receiving extensive media coverage and positioning real human experiences at the center of America’s abortion debate for the very first time. The online momentum sparked a grassroots movement that has subsequently inspired countless individuals to share their abortion stories in art, media, and community events all over the country, and to begin building platforms for others to do the same. Shout Your Abortion is a collection of photos, essays, and creative work inspired by the movement of the same name, a template for building new communities of healing, and a call to action. Since SYA’s inception, people all over the country have shared stories and begun organizing in a range of ways: making art, hosting comedy shows, creating abortion-positive clothing, altering billboards, starting conversations that had never happened before. This book documents some of these projects and illuminates the individuals who have breathed life into this movement, illustrating the profound liberatory and political power of defying shame and claiming sole authorship of our experiences. With Roe vs. Wade on the brink of reversal, the act of shouting one’s abortion has become explicitly radical, and Shout Your Abortion is needed more urgently than ever before.
Download or read book My Secret Loss written by Sheila M. Luck and published by Carepoint Ministry, Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant number of women who chose abortion are suffering from post-abortion syndrome: Abortion Grief. They are beset by a secret grief and suffer guilt and shame. Your church can be a carepoint for those in the congregation and community who are struggling to find peace and forgiveness in the wake of an abortion by hosting a Christ-centered 10-session support group based on Sheila Luck's grace-full book My Secret Loss and ministering Christ's love to them now!
Download or read book She Found His Grace written by Serena Dyksen and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Serena Dyksen heard the news that over 2,200 babies remains were found on the property of abortion doctor Ulrich George Klopfer, her whole body went numb from shock. She began to sob tears of grief. Is my baby one of those remains? she questioned. Dr. Klopfer performed her abortion when she was just thirteen years old. Just months before, Serena had decided to share her abortion story. After watching one of the last scenes in the pro-life movie Unplanned, she felt it was time to share the hope and healing God had done in her life. Serenas story reads like a traumatic tale: a childhood of dysfunction, rape, abortion at thirteen years old, a pregnant teenager at the age of sixteen, health issues, and a devastating event that led her to alcohol and drug abuse. But in her book, She Found His Grace: A True Story of Hope, Love and Forgiveness After Abortion, Serena reveals the transforming power of Gods healing in her life that set her completely free. She now finds comfort from Genesis 50:20 (ESV): As for me, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today. Serena wants everyone who reads her book to know that she walks in freedom because of the transforming power of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Everyone needs to walk through the healing process of their past abortion, no matter what the circumstances, she testifies. If you dont, you will be walking through deception, pain, and all the bondage that goes with that. But the same God who sent people to show His love for me is the same God who will redeem your life too! Headlines of Dr. Ulrich Klopfers evil highlights the horrors of the abortion industry, but Serenas testimony overshadows that darkness with the truth of God's word. There is forgiveness, hope, and healing for your past abortion. God shines through my life; he can shine through yours too!
Download or read book Experiencing Abortion written by Eve Kushner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you’ve had an abortion and are feeling isolated and vulnerable, Experiencing Abortion will remind you that you are not alone and that you must feel your emotions in order to accept your choice and heal. Each woman responds to abortion in her own way, yet, as this sensitive, insightful book shows, there are many similarities among women’s post-abortion emotions. Sharing in the firsthand, personal experiences of other women who speak for themselves in this book will help you come to terms with anguish, stress, grief, anger, or any other overwhelming emotions you might be feeling. Don’t go on ignoring or blocking out your feelings. Learn to incorporate your experience into your sense of self in a healthy way. By reading Experiencing Abortion, you will learn about the multiple feelings and reactions abortion can trigger, the process of accepting an abortion, and the struggle to control fertility without treating your body as an enemy. Offering you a safe, honest, and supportive environment in which to explore your feelings about your abortion, this book discusses many important topics, including: the way moods can overtake you after abortion how avoiding your experience can defer acceptance, which in turn leads to denial and guilt how pregnancy, abortion, and subsequent bleeding can affect your perception of your body the struggle to enjoy sex after your abortion your heightened awareness of gender after an abortion how your intimate relationships may change after an abortion the psychological reasons you may sometimes forgo birth control accepting yourself after a second abortion Experiencing Abortion will help women who have had an abortion understand that it is a complex physical and emotional experience that doesn’t necessarily end after a week or a month or a year. It will also help professionals in abortion facilities and therapists who offer pre- and post-abortion counseling understand how abortion affects each individual differently and how they might help women work through their feelings both before and after abortion. Partners, friends, and families will find this book helpful and informative as they try to help their loved one get through this sometimes difficult, even traumatic, experience.
