The Healing Choice: Your Guide to Emotional Recovery After an Abortion

I had an abortion the day before new years and have been devastated ever since. This book is not a cure like another reviewer indicated but has helped me manage and identify how I feel towards the abortion. I highly recommend it for everyone who has gone through it.

This book helped me make the right decision for my family. I don't think I could have faced it all without the wisdom I read here. I loved how it showed me that all the emotions I was feeling were perfectly normal, and common. It made me feel less alone and less ashamed.

My abortion was heartbreaking for me because I didn’t really want to get rid of my baby. The circumstances with my ex manipulating me and persuading me to do it because he couldn’t step up is what lead to a lot of sadness, anger, and resentment. I held onto it and even when I thought I was moving forward, there it was creeping back up. Therapy wasn’t helping anymore and I was starting to say really mean and hurtful things to my ex and wanting to actually physically hurt him. It’s not like me to be that way, so I knew I needed help. I talked with my pastor and she said she would be there for me as much as she could but, that I had to work through my anger in my way that was positive. So I took a chance and looked up books and this had good reviews. Although there were a few things in the book that personally did not apply it helped me work through things by saying them aloud and writing them down. It’s not a cure all and I still take it day by day but it did help.

With "The Healing Choice," Candace De Puy and Dana Dovitch have made a much needed and extremely important contribution to the fields of psychology and womens' health. I recently re-read this book in preparation for working with a young woman who was struggling to heal from the emotional impact of having an abortion under traumatic circumstances. It was incredibly helpful, both to me and to the patient, herself. Besides providing solid information, the personal stories and insights of a wide range of women, and numerous exercises that deal with specific issues along the path to recovery, this book is full of compassion. And it is just as relevent today as it was when it was first published.

I am so glad my clinic recommended this book. Nothing has helped me heal from trauma and process my anguish like this book. I wish they could reprint it with more recent information. I gave a copy to my therapist and she was very impressed and emailed her colleagues about it.

Great. Thank you.

Excellent!

Very helpful

This book helped me so so much

I couldn't recommend this book enough to anyone who has went through an abortion. The book recognises all the different feelings that can arise during and after an abortion. The book gave me permission to do two things; it was okay to grieve for what I had gave up and to recognise that there's no shame in abortion even though society and religion will tell you otherwise. Compassion and empathy are offered continuously throughout the book which eventually helped me to give that compassion to myself. The book contributed a great deal to offering me closure and made me realise I was not alone which sounds silly now but at the time it certainly felt that way. I know on the anniversary of my abortion each year I will look to this book for solace to remind myself that being kind to myself during such painful days is how I will get through.

This book has allowed me to face up to my feelings and examine the complicated emotions I have suppressed my whole life. I don't feel afraid of thinking about it anymore. I'm really glad I bought it, and I would highly recommend it to others.

This book helped me a lot because it covers many different perspectives on the subject.

This book really helped me before being ready to go to therapy and talk to someone. We followed the same parts during therapy.