Should you tell your children about your abortion experience? How do you know when the timing is right? In this deeply honest conversation, Mindy, Linda, and Michelle discuss the fear, grief, healing, and grace involved in sharing an abortion story with younger children.

Michelle vulnerably shares her personal experiences telling both her older and younger children about the loss of their sibling, the different ways her children responded, and how honesty ultimately strengthened family relationships over time. Together, they talk about the importance of seeking God’s guidance, considering each child’s emotional maturity, and understanding that every family’s journey will look different.

This episode also explores how secrecy and shame can create distance in relationships, while openness and healing can create deeper trust, compassion, and connection within families.

Whether you are considering sharing your story with your children or wondering how healing impacts family relationships, this conversation offers wisdom, hope, and encouragement.

Learn more about virtual abortion recovery and healing at An Even Place

Topics We Discuss

• Sharing an abortion story with younger children
• How children process grief and family loss
• Fear, shame, and honesty within families
• Seeking God’s guidance for difficult conversations
• How openness can strengthen parent-child relationships

Questions This Episode Answers

• Should I tell my children about my abortion?
• What age is appropriate for these conversations?
• How might children respond emotionally?
• Can sharing my story strengthen family relationships?
• How do I know if God is leading me to tell them?

In this deeply honest conversation, Michelle shares how abortion affected her marriage, identity, relationships, and view of herself for decades. She opens up about the silence she and the father of her baby carried, the bitterness and shame that followed, and how unresolved grief shaped the way she connected with others.

Michelle also shares how abortion healing finally gave her a safe place to be fully known without fear of rejection. This episode explores the impact abortion can have on marriage, emotional intimacy, friendships, church life, shame, forgiveness, and healing through biblical community.

If you have ever struggled with shame, secrecy, fear of being known, or lingering grief years after abortion, this conversation offers honesty, hope, and encouragement that healing is possible.

Learn more about abortion recovery and healing at www.anevenplace.com

Topics We Discuss

1. How abortion impacted marriage and emotional intimacy
2. The connection between shame, secrecy, and isolation
3. Lingering grief decades after abortion
4. Fear of vulnerability and being fully known
5. Finding healing through safe biblical community

Questions This Episode Answers

1. Can abortion affect a marriage for years afterward?
2. Why does shame continue even after asking God for forgiveness?
3. How can abortion impact friendships and relationships with women?
4. Why do some women avoid vulnerability after abortion?
5. Is deeper healing possible even decades later?

Michelle shares her powerful story of living with abortion shame for nearly 30 years while appearing “fine” on the outside. In this honest conversation, she opens up about the fear, pressure, unhealthy relationships, and hidden pain that led to her abortion decision as a young Christian woman.

She discusses how shame, abuse, fear of exposure, and believing lies about her worth kept her silent for decades, even while sitting in church pews. Michelle also shares the turning point that led her into biblical abortion recovery, how healing transformed her marriage and faith, and why she is now passionate about helping others find freedom from shame.

This episode is a reminder that healing is possible, no matter how many years have passed.

Learn more about healing after abortion at An Even Place

Topics We Discuss

1. How fear and shame influence abortion decisions
2. The emotional impact of hidden abortion grief
3. Abuse, unhealthy relationships, and loss of self-worth
4. Healing through biblical abortion recovery groups
5. Finding freedom, joy, and purpose after abortion

Questions This Episode Answers

1. Why do women hide abortion pain for years?
2. Can abortion healing still happen decades later?
3. How does shame affect faith and relationships?
4. What is it like to attend an abortion recovery group?
5. How can sharing your story help others heal?

In this episode of Your Healing Place Podcast, Mindy and Linda continue their conversation with Jenny as she shares the healing impact of memorializing a baby after a medically advised abortion. Together they discuss grief, closure, honoring children lost to abortion, and why creating meaningful memorials can be a powerful step in the healing journey.

Jenny shares personal experiences of creating memorials for her son, including placing a plaque at the National Memorial for the Unborn, and explains how acknowledging loss can bring validation, comfort, and hope. The conversation also explores the emotional struggles many women face after abortion, including feeling unworthy to grieve or believing they do not deserve healing.

This episode offers compassionate encouragement for women and families navigating abortion recovery, pregnancy loss, shame, grief, and faith. The discussion includes practical ideas for memorializing a baby such as memorial gardens, plaques, balloon releases, planting trees, online memorials, and family remembrance ceremonies.

Whether your abortion was medically advised or chosen under difficult circumstances, this conversation reminds listeners that healing is possible and grief is real.

Learn more about virtual abortion recovery and healing resources at An Even Place

Questions This Episode Answers

1. Why is memorializing a baby after abortion important for healing?
2. Am I allowed to grieve after a medically advised abortion?
3. What are meaningful ways to honor a baby lost to abortion?
4. How can memorials help bring emotional closure after abortion?
5. How does abortion grief affect families beyond the mother?

Topics We Discuss

• Healing after medically advised abortion
• Memorializing babies lost to abortion
• The importance of grief and emotional validation
• Family healing after abortion loss
• Creative ways to honor and remember a child

In this deeply honest conversation, Jinny shares her experience with medically advised abortion after learning devastating news about her wanted pregnancy. She opens up about the trauma, grief, guilt, and emotional conflict that followed, including the complicated layers of mourning a child she desperately loved while wrestling with the decision she made.

Together, we discuss how abortion grief can impact women regardless of the circumstances surrounding the pregnancy and why medically advised abortions can still leave lasting emotional pain, PTSD, and unresolved grief. Jinny also shares how fear, lack of support, and limited knowledge influenced her decision at the time, and how true healing began when she invited Christ into the process.

This episode offers compassion and understanding for women who feel unseen in their grief and reminds listeners that healing is possible through grace, truth, and biblical healing.

If you are struggling after abortion or pregnancy loss, you are not alone. Learn more about healing resources and support groups at www.anevenplace.com.

Questions This Episode Answers

• Can women grieve after a medically advised abortion?
• Why does abortion grief feel so complicated and layered?
• How can fear influence abortion decisions?
• What does healing through Christ look like after abortion?
• Why do women still struggle years after abortion experiences?
• How can women give themselves grace for past decisions?

Topics We Discuss

• Medically advised abortion and emotional trauma
• Compounded grief after a wanted pregnancy
• PTSD, guilt, and unresolved grief after abortion
• Fear, pressure, and decision-making during pregnancy crises
• Biblical healing and finding freedom through Christ
• Giving grace to the younger version of yourself

In this deeply honest conversation, Jenny shares her experience with medically advised abortion after learning devastating news about her wanted pregnancy. She opens up about the trauma, grief, guilt, and emotional conflict that followed, including the complicated layers of mourning a child she desperately loved while wrestling with the decision she made.

Together, we discuss how abortion grief can impact women regardless of the circumstances surrounding the pregnancy and why medically advised abortions can still leave lasting emotional pain, PTSD, and unresolved grief. Jinny also shares how fear, lack of support, and limited knowledge influenced her decision at the time, and how true healing began when she invited Christ into the process.

This episode offers compassion and understanding for women who feel unseen in their grief and reminds listeners that healing is possible through grace, truth, and biblical healing.

If you are struggling after abortion or pregnancy loss, you are not alone. Learn more about healing resources and support groups at www.anevenplace.com.

Questions This Episode Answers

• Can women grieve after a medically advised abortion?
• Why does abortion grief feel so complicated and layered?
• How can fear influence abortion decisions?
• What does healing through Christ look like after abortion?
• Why do women still struggle years after abortion experiences?
• How can women give themselves grace for past decisions?

Topics We Discuss

• Medically advised abortion and emotional trauma
• Compounded grief after a wanted pregnancy
• PTSD, guilt, and unresolved grief after abortion
• Fear, pressure, and decision-making during pregnancy crises
• Biblical healing and finding freedom through Christ
• Giving grace to the younger version of yourself

In this deeply honest conversation, Jenny shares her journey through abortion after receiving a devastating prenatal diagnosis during a wanted pregnancy. She opens up about the pressure she and her husband faced from medical professionals, the fear and confusion surrounding the diagnosis, and the lasting grief that followed the loss of her son.

Jenny also shares how God led her from silence and isolation into abortion recovery ministry, writing her memoir, and eventually joining the team at An Even Place. Together, Mindy, Linda, and Jenny discuss the complexity of grief after abortion, especially when the pregnancy was wanted, and the importance of compassionate, faith-centered healing support.

This episode speaks directly to those carrying hidden grief, wrestling with shame, or wondering if healing is still possible years later.

Learn more about abortion recovery and virtual healing groups at www.anevenplace.com

Questions This Episode Answers

• What is abortion after a devastating prenatal diagnosis like?
• Can you grieve a wanted pregnancy after abortion?
• Why do some women feel pressured into abortion by medical providers?
• Is healing possible years after an abortion decision?
• What does faith-based abortion recovery look like?

Topics We Discuss

• Pregnancy termination after fetal abnormalities
• Grief and trauma after a wanted pregnancy loss
• Pressure from doctors during prenatal diagnosis
• Finding healing through abortion recovery ministry
• How God leads people into helping others heal

In this deeply reflective episode of Your Healing Place, hosts Mindy Lefaucheur and Linda Keener Thomas guide listeners through the painful and common question: “Why didn’t God stop me from having an abortion?” Drawing on real stories and Scripture, this honest conversation acknowledges the regret, confusion, and anger that often follow this question—and gently offers clarity rooted in faith.

This approximately 9-minute episode isn’t about assigning blame—it’s about uncovering hope. It offers spiritual perspectives to make sense of deep emotional wounds and affirms that even unanswered prayers or “silent” moments can lead toward mercy and restoration.

Whether you are wrestling with insecurity, seeking healing, or simply exploring how faith intersects with grief, this episode speaks tenderly to the heart of your questions.

The mission of Your Healing Place podcast is to address common concerns of how abortion healing and faith intersect in order to validate the emotional pain and grief that abortion can bring and give hope that recovery is possible.

Episodes are brief conversations centered around common concerns that are often discussed in abortion recovery groups. Each episode focuses on biblical truth as it is applied to healing the emotional wounds after having an abortion that will validate the often confusing emotional response and give credibility to the need for healing.

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What happens when the future you imagined never comes—and you’re left wondering if your past choices are the reason why?

In this honest conversation, Mindy Lefaucheur and Sylvia Blakely step into one of the hardest questions women carry after abortion: Is God punishing me? Through their own stories of abortion, infertility, miscarriage, grief, and healing, they talk about the tension between natural consequences, personal shame, and the mercy of God.

This episode does not offer shallow answers or clichés. Instead, it gently walks through the emotional reality many women face after abortion, especially when future pregnancies, motherhood, or healing do not unfold the way they hoped. Mindy and Sylvia discuss how abortion can continue affecting a woman’s heart for years, the lies many women believe during a crisis pregnancy, and why trusting God again can feel so difficult after loss.

At the center of this conversation is the reminder that God’s mercy is not earned. His forgiveness is not based on deserving it. And even when grief remains, healing and freedom are still possible through Him.

If you’ve ever questioned God’s heart toward you after abortion or struggled to reconcile your pain with His love, this episode will meet you there with compassion, honesty, and hope.

Learn more about virtual abortion recovery and biblical healing resources at www.anevenplace.com.

Questions This Episode Answers

• Is infertility after abortion a punishment from God?
• Why does abortion grief last for years?
• How do I trust God again after abortion?
• Can God still love me after the choices I made?
• What is the difference between consequences and condemnation?

Topics We Discuss

• Infertility, miscarriage, and abortion grief
• God’s sovereignty over pregnancy and children
• The emotional aftermath of abortion
• Trusting God after crisis pregnancy decisions
• Receiving forgiveness and walking in freedom

In this episode of Your Healing Place, Sylvia Blakely joins host Mindy Lefaucheur to unpack the difference between consequences and discipline in the life of a believer. While consequences are the natural results of our choices, God’s discipline is an act of love—meant to correct, guide, and restore us.

Through personal insights and biblical truth, this conversation offers hope for anyone carrying the weight of a past abortion. It’s a reminder that while choices have consequences, God’s discipline always leads to redemption, healing, and a closer walk with Him.

If you’ve ever struggled with guilt or wondered how God responds to your mistakes, this episode will encourage you: His discipline is proof of His love, and His mercy can turn even our consequences into growth.

The mission of Your Healing Place podcast is to address common concerns of how abortion healing and faith intersect in order to validate the emotional pain and grief that abortion can bring and give hope that recovery is possible.

Episodes are brief conversations centered around common concerns that are often discussed in abortion recovery groups. Each episode focuses on biblical truth as it is applied to healing the emotional wounds after having an abortion that will validate the often confusing emotional response and give credibility to the need for healing.

An Even Place website: www.anevenplace.com

To learn more about our groups: https://anevenplace.com/interest-form/

To learn more about our services: https://anevenplace.com/healingservices/