I will never forget when I first sought healing from my abortion. I had lived in a silence and suffering for so long and there really wasn't anything out there regarding healing from abortion. I longed to speak to someone who had gone down the path and could be a voice of the proof of healing. Someone who had made it through to the other side.

I needed to believe healing was possible. While others may be able to help you to a certain point, it only takes you so far. No one speaks to the pain and the road to recovery more than someone who has been there and knows the tools you need to work through  the unique dynamics of healing from abortion.

Reclaiming Our Children (ROC) is a group of people who have been through the process of healing . They are there to travel the journey with you and provide concrete suggestions when those issues  of abortion that attack your very being surface for you.

Below is an article I wrote a while ago …there is hope and there is healing.

"My hope is that women who have gotten real help are speaking to other women who are suffering, and that they are able to find places to go to who acknowledge their feelings without making them feel like something is wrong with them, because there isn’t!!!!"

Every month, I get at least 15 new women and men looking for help regarding a past abortion. It is heart breaking to hear the anguish they are going through, but I know there is hope of healing, and so we connect them with people and places that will be able to help them get through this very real trauma.

There is something about participating in the death of your own child, that touches the deepest recesses of your soul. Some people claim it does not bother them at all. I would NEVER want to be one of them if that is true, but chances are, they are burying it. Often women of 80 and even 90 years of age come forward for healing. It catches up with you sooner or later.

That is why posts like this, “How Will I feel After Abortion“, make me so angry. The  repeated attempts to blame the emotions and dynamics of abortion on other life events is unjust and a down right lie, and they continue to feed it to women in a manipulative way.

“Serious, long-term emotional problems after abortion are as unusual as they are after giving birth. They are more likely to occur for certain reasons, for instance, if a woman has a past history of psychological troubles prior to the abortion, if she does not have supportive individuals in her life, or if she has to terminate a wanted pregnancy since her wellness or the health and wellness of the unborn child is at risk.

Eventually, most women feel alleviation after an abortion. Women tend to really feel a whole lot better after abortion if they could chat with encouraging people in their lives.”

The message to women is clear. “If your abortion is bothering you long term,  you must have had psychological problems before, or lack of support, because most people feel alleviated.”

the rest is here