Support After Abortion
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Support After Abortion is a catalyst to inspire compassion among people, promote collaboration with leaders, and build capacity for abortion healing programming. Support After Abortion provides abortion healing to men and women through compassion, collaboration, and capacity.
Support After Abortion
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An abortion decision can be complicated. There are usually many factors considered when a woman becomes unexpectedly pregnant, like finances, support she may or may not have, education, and relationships. A study conducted by the Guttmacher Institute found that nearly half of women who experienced abortion stated relationship issues as a factor in their decisions.
Many people facing an unintended pregnancy feel they are in an even more complicated situation when ..read more
Support After Abortion
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In our February 21st webinar, Support After Abortion Executive Director Kylee Heap and Men’s Healing Strategist Greg Mayo explored the Top 10 Resolutions for Abortion Healing Providers.
INTRO
“Did you know that by the second week in January, most people have given up on their resolutions?” Kylee asked. “That’s why we chose to talk about resolutions in February, getting past the January hump of the new year.”
Kylee and Greg explained that the goal is to “refresh ourselves and the commitments we want to make with abortion healing” and to be “intentional with plan ..read more
Support After Abortion
1w ago
In our March 13 Men’s Healing Matters webinar, Support After Abortion Men’s Healing Strategist Greg Mayo explored best practices when speaking with men. He addressed the effectiveness of these tips and strategies when engaging with men both before and after abortion.
HOW DO MEN AND WOMEN COMMUNICATE DIFFERENTLY?
Communication differences among men and women is a. He mentioned the Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus iconic book from the 1990s and described comedian Jeff Foxworthy’s bit about communicating with his wife after receiving a text from a buddy who was in a car ..read more
Support After Abortion
1M ago
I’m a lost cause
Baby, don’t waste your time on me
I’m so damaged beyond repair
Life has shattered my hopes and my dreams
…
Somebody save me, me from myself
I’ve spent so long living in Hell
These lyrics from Jelly Roll’s song Save Me speak about feeling like he has messed up so much that he’s beyond saving. And yet, he still has enough hope to call out for someone to help.
This song echoes the words and emotions of many of our clients, such as these:
– I don’t know how to live with this. I can’t forgive myself for having the abortion. I have no hope. I don’t think my life is important in any ..read more
Support After Abortion
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Our inaugural Men’s Healing Matters webinar on February 14 focused on our National Men’s Study and white paper on the Long-Term Negative Effect of Abortion on Men. Host Greg Mayo led the presentation and discussion.
WHY DOES MEN’S HEALING MATTER?
Greg discussed questions that pregnancy center staff, volunteers, and others often ask including Are men really impacted by abortion? Where are they? Why don’t they come forward?
To provide context and insight into men’s experiences, Greg shared a music video by the artist Dax featuring Darius Rucker called To Be a Man. The first time he watched the v ..read more
Support After Abortion
1M ago
Our inaugural Quarterly Facilitator Meeting on January 24 focused on Group Guidelines. Co-Hosts Greg Mayo, Men’s Healing Strategist, and Heidi Inlow, Case Manager, lead a discussion and offered practical tips and strategies for implementing guidelines within healing support groups.
WHY HAVE GUIDELINES
Greg shared the importance of guidelines for a group. “They let each member know what’s expected of them,” Greg said, “and what they can expect from the facilitator and other participants. Without that they don’t know the rails and boundaries.”
“I’ve learned that guidelines provide me boundaries ..read more
Support After Abortion
2M ago
In our January 17 Abortion Healing Provider Webinar, Clinical Strategist Lisa Rowe shared a tool for providers to use with themselves and their clients to create awareness and assess how balanced and satisfied they are with key areas in their life. Lisa explained that greater awareness of what’s going on in our lives leads to a greater ability to make changes or take action steps.
We shared a printable Life Balance Wheel handout for webinar participants, but Lisa emphasized that it’s not necessary to have a special wheel to use. “It’s my favorite thing to do on the back of an envelope or ..read more
Support After Abortion
3M ago
In our December 20 webinar, Support After Abortion CEO Lisa Rowe, LCSW, presented the window of tolerance as a tool we can apply for ourselves and our clients to assess how we handle stress and identify how it impacts us. She discussed what we can do to gain perspective and addressed skills and strategies we can use to restore calm and respond in effective, healthy ways to the demands and stresses of everyday life – and the holidays. She also unpacked the role trauma plays in our stress responses and how stress responses impact abortion experiences. She offered tips and techniques we can try w ..read more
Support After Abortion
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Hallmark, commercials, social media posts … They all paint a lovely picture of the holidays complete with family togetherness, joy, and fun. But what if the thought of all that family time makes you anxious and depressed? What if you’re grieving – whether or not those around you know? How can you navigate the holidays and the potential questions and comments from friends and family members?
Abortion experiences can compound these challenges. Maybe you’re thinking, “I haven’t experienced or been im ..read more
Support After Abortion
4M ago
In our Nov 15 webinar, Support After Abortion CEO Lisa Rowe, LCSW, introduced the topic of the intersection of abortion and addiction. And Special Projects Manager, Karin Barbito, shared her personal experience with abortion and addiction.
Karin talked about how addiction played a role as a coping mechanism for her abortion and other trauma experiences, and how she eventually found healing from addiction while in recovery, from codependency while in a rehab half-way house, and later from abortion while working at a pregnancy center.
Lisa defined addiction as a stress response and as “anything ..read more