After Abortion...The Journey of Self-Healing

by Debra Elliott
(Birmingham AL)

The years have slowly tick-tocked away and still I have not found the solacement needed for my journey of self-healing.

I constantly find myself as I am sure other women who have suffered and survived through an abortion; planned or unplanned pondering the reality of what actually happened to me, to my body some thirty years ago.

In my personal journey of self-healing I have dealt with that reality in many different ways to block the memories.

I wanted to forget those painful memories forever seared in my mind, burned into my soul.

I turned to drugs, one of the most common areas that many young women who have experienced an abortion do to tune out the pain, the memories.

Drugs are a quick fix and only temporarily block the pain and the reality. Drugs were not my answer, nor should not be a solution to a woman's journey of self-healing.

Throughout my years of my most painful, personal journey I have learned to express my feelings in writing. I have found that writing is a good release of all the pent up emotions that a woman stores inside herself after an abortion.

I have written many pieces on abortion and how I have coped, but my journey is not complete, nor may never be.

As a Christian woman who has experienced an abortion, the most meaningful part of my journey of self-healing has been the bible.

The Word of God has brought comfort to my hurt.
Let the Word of God be your strength, your solace, your comfort in your journey of self-healing.

Until next time remember:

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
(Psalm 46:1-3)

Please send me your thoughts and any bible verses that have helped you on your journey. We are all in this journey together.