Resources
Healing from an abortion often comes in layers and over years. Let this be an encouragement and please know there are many resources to aid in healing. Whether it be a Bible study group, weekend retreat, using art therapy, continued mentorship, or additional reading materials many options exist. We want to help you receive what you need for where you are in your healing journey. Serving to help others and finding ways to share your story contribute significantly to the healing process.
Additional Healing and Mentorship
Polly Lunetto Ministries
Art that offers a unique way to honor the lives of our unborn children lost through abortion and to provide healing and a sense of closure for those who are hurting.
Light Group Ministries
The Next Step..is a compatible sequel to Forgiven and Set Free. It is a 7-week interactive Bible study designed to be used in small groups of 3-6 women that equips, trains, and empowers women to use their voices to bring healing and hope to the silent sufferers.
Arise Artists
Mentoring for women who have gone through an abortion recovery healing group.
National Memorial For The Unborn
Dedicated to healing generations of pain associated with the loss of aborted children. It is a tangible symbol of the grief and regrets felt by millions of families.
Deeper Still
A retreat to getaway from the business of life to find hope and healing. All retreats are free and led by people who have been there.
Rachel's Vineyard
Rachel's Vineyard weekends for healing after abortion are offered throughout the
year in locations across the United States and Canada, with additional sites around
the world.
Ways to Serve & Share Your Story
Operation Outcry
Share your story of how abortion has hurt you in a Declaration Form. A Declaration is a legally admissible testimony declaring under penalty of perjury that the information is true. It is anonymous and powerful to take before courts and legislatures in efforts to limit or ban abortion.
I Regret My Abortion
A place to share your story, help others heal, and encourage moms in parenting her baby.
H3helpline Coach
Help those suffering from the emotional trauma of abortion by offering help, hope, and healing through listening and shareing their story of abortion and the healing they have received then offering vetted resources for abortion recovery healing groups.
Local Pregnancy Center
Pregancy centers throughout the nation and world are the front-lines and sometimes first contact for a woman seeking an abortion. They educate, in some cases help the woman with some health services related to pregnancy, and equip moms and dads with material needs for caring for their babies.
Embrace Grace
Helps bridge the gap between pregnancy centers and local churches, so men and women know they do not have to walk through an unplanned pregnancy alone.
Sidewalk Advocates
That peaceful, prayerful, loving, and law-abiding sidewalk outreach be present outside every abortion and abortion-referral facility in the U.S. and beyond, redirecting all to life-affirming alternatives, thereby ending abortion.
40 Days For Life
An internationally coordinated 40-day campaign that aims to end abortion locally through prayer and fasting, community outreach, and a peaceful all-day vigil in front of abortion businesses.
Silent No More
Reach out to people hurt by abortion; educate the public that abortion is harmful; share personal testimonies of hurt and healing.
Reading Material
Links are not included as they often break or change. You can find any of these books on Amazon, Ebay, or where any books are sold.
Gift Wrapped By God
Linda Dillow and Lorraine Pintus
THIS BOOK IS INTENDED FOR SINGLE WOMEN: Filled with powerful true stories of hope and healing, Gift-Wrapped by God provides compelling emotional and spiritual reasons for choosing God’s path of sexual purity, as well as practical help for following it. Whether women have held onto their sexual innocence, have become prematurely sexually active, or have had their purity taken by force, they can express and fulfill their desire to come to their wedding day--and live out every day–-sexually pure and whole.
Intimate Issues: 21 Questions Christian Women Ask About Sex
Linda Dillow and Lorraine Pintus
THIS BOOK IS INTENDED FOR MARRIED WOMEN: Intimate Issues answers the twenty-one questions about sex most frequently asked by Christian wives, as determined by a nationwide poll of over one thousand women. Written from the perspective of two mature Christian wives and Bible teachers–women who you’ll come to know as teachers and friends–Intimate Issues is biblical and informative: sometimes humorous, other times practical, but always honest. Through its solid teaching warm testimonials, scriptural insights, and experts’ advise, you’ll find resolution for your questions and fears, surprising insights about God’s perspective on sex, and a variety of practical and creative ideas for enhancing your physical relationship with the husband you love.
Hush: Moving From Silence to Healing After Childhood Sexual Abuse
Nicole Braddock Bromley
Childhood sexual abuse is running rampant, yet it's the best kept secret in our nation today. Its victims grow into adulthood with their little child's heart trapped in the pain and torment of their past. Nicole Braddock Bromley shares her own story and the steps to moving from silence to healing. Hush exposes the harsh realities of childhood abuse, explains the pain it causes, examines the false beliefs it creates, and empowers survivors to begin a personal journey toward healing by breaking the silence.
With words of understanding and comfort, Nicole tells the real-life stories of those whose voices would otherwise never be heard. She is straightforward enough to pierce the hearts of those in a survivor's circle of influence, yet careful to tread lightly on what could be tender words.
Grace Like Scarlett: Grieving with Hope After Miscarriage and Loss
Adriel Booker
Though one in four pregnancies ends in loss, miscarriage is shrouded in such secrecy and stigma that the woman who experiences it often feels deeply isolated, unsure how to process her grief. Her body seems to have betrayed her. Her confidence in the goodness of God is rattled. Her loved ones don't know what to say. Her heart is broken. She may feel guilty, ashamed, angry, depressed, confused, or alone.
With vulnerability and tenderness, Adriel Booker shares intimate stories about her experiences with early and mid-term miscarriages to help you navigate your own grief and know you aren't alone. She tackles complex questions about faith, suffering, and God's will with sensitivity and clarity, devoid of religious clichés or pat answers. Ultimately, Adriel invites you to a wide-open place of grace, honesty, and genuine hope as you discover a redemption story unfolding in the shadows of your loss. She also includes practical resources for ways to help guide children through grief, advice on pregnancy after loss, and special sections for dads and loved ones.
Lies Women Believe
Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
"Many women live under a cloud of personal guilt and condemnation," says Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth. "Many are in bondage to their past. Others are gripped by fear of rejection and a longing for approval. Still others are emotional prisoners."
In the best-selling Lies Women Believe, Nancy exposes these areas of deception most commonly believed by Christian women - lies about God, sin, priorities, marriage and family, emotions, and more. She then sheds light on how we can be delivered from bondage and set free to walk in God's grace, forgiveness, and abundant life. Nancy offers the most effective weapon to counter and overcome Satan's lies: God's truth!
The Praying Life
Paul E. Miller
Author Paul Miller shares his insights and conclusions about how to connect the broken pieces of your life and allow prayer—even poorly delivered—to fill the gaps with meaning and substance.
Miller's down-to-earth approach and practical nature will help you see that your relationship with God can grow and your communication with Him can get better.
The Divine Mentor
Wayne Cordeiro
Many believers settle for a spiritual routine that lacks God's presence. But what they truly want, and truly need, is a dynamic, vital, and intimate relationship with God. Here Wayne Cordeiro gently but directly shows readers how to move from routine to relationship--from mundane actions to fresh encounters--by learning to hear Him speak to them through the Bible. Through stories, lessons, and anecdotes, Cordeiro equips readers to listen to the promptings of the Holy Spirit as they read God's Word, enabling them to transform their daily quiet time with the Lord.
Sex and The Soul of a Woman
Paula Rinehart
Compassionate counselor Paula Rinehart understands the high price a woman pays in loosening her sexual boundaries, and the unique role sex plays in forging a bond meant to last a lifetime. She shows women how to break free from the bondage of misused sexuality and create a new beginning in their relationships with men.This is required reading for every woman who longs for a man to see her beauty and cherish it.
Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands
Paul David Tripp
Paul David Tripp’s masterpiece on ministry will transform how you view yourself and engage with others. God radically changes people, and he offers us the opportunity―and the ability, by his power―to be involved in that change. We can live not just as grateful objects of his love but as effective instruments of his love in the lives of the people around us. Have you been satisfied by too little? Content with small changes in your life and the lives of others? Unsure of how to help others and uncomfortable when you encounter their needs? You don’t need to start with a strategy or technique, Tripp argues―you need a renewed imagination! Only then can you grasp what is real but unseen and live accordingly.
Boundaries
Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend
Does your life feel like it's out of control? Perhaps you feel like you have to say yes to everyone's requests. Maybe you find yourself readily taking responsibility for others' feelings and problems. Or perhaps you focus so much on being loving and unselfish that you've forgotten your own limits and limitations. Or maybe it's all of the above.
The Sacred Romance
Brent Curtis & John Eldredge
Guiding readers from a busy, self-indulgent religion to a deeper relationship with God, the authors examine a wide range of obstacles on a pilgrimage of faith and explain how to overcome such challenges to find new intimacy, beauty, and love with God.