Healing After an Abortion

If you have problems with your grief after abortion, abortion even if you happened years ago, emotional healing is possible. Although you may regret past actions, you can start to make healthy choices now will help you heal and to cope. Emotional healing is a process that usually takes time and requires the assistance of a counselor or support group, but you can get started on your healing through one or more of these steps:

• Find a support group or counselor

• Admit you the truth about abortion

• Give no feelings of regret or guilt

• Allow yourself to grieve the loss of your child

• Talk about your experiences with others

• To tell the truth, explore your feelings about your abortion

• To tell the truth, explore your feelings about the people involved in your abortion

• Accept God's forgiveness

• Forgive others who were involved in your abortion

• Forgive yourself

• Reconcile relationships that are affected by abortion

• Let your child lost

• Find creative outlets that lets you express your feelings such as writing, music, drawing, etc.

• There time with others on the anniversary of your abortion, not stand

You may not be able to bring all these steps immediately. Give yourself time and start with the things that are important to you easier. Seek help from a counselor for things that are even more difficult.