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.

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/

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/

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(s). 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/

Being truly seen can feel vulnerable, especially when carrying shame, grief, or parts of your story you would rather keep hidden. Yet Scripture reminds us that when God sees us, He does not turn away. He draws near with compassion, love, and healing.

In this episode of Your Healing Place, Sylvia Blakely joins Mindy and Linda for a conversation about El Roi, “The God Who Sees Me.” Through the story of Hagar in Genesis 16, they unpack what it means to be fully known by God while still being fully loved by Him. Together they explore how hidden pain, abortion grief, rejection, and feelings of invisibility can leave women struggling to believe they matter, while God continually pursues them with tenderness and purpose.

Sylvia also shares how God meets us in places of surrender and obedience, even when healing feels difficult or uncomfortable. Drawing connections between Hagar’s story and the healing ministry of Jesus, this episode offers hope to anyone carrying emotional wounds they feel no one else understands.

If you have ever wondered whether God sees your grief, your shame, or the parts of your heart you try to hide, this conversation is a reminder that He does. And He loves you there.

Learn more about virtual abortion recovery healing, support groups, and self-paced resources at www.anevenplace.com

Questions This Episode Answers

• What does the name El Roi mean in the Bible?
• Does God still love me after abortion?
• Why do I feel unseen or invisible in my grief?
• How can God heal the parts of my heart I hide from others?
• What does surrender look like in the healing journey?

Topics We Discuss

• Hagar’s story and the meaning of El Roi
• Feeling unseen after abortion and trauma
• The connection between shame and isolation
• Jesus healing the man with the withered hand
• Trusting God with wounded places in our lives

Healing after abortion is rarely just about one moment or one decision. In this heartfelt conversation, Sylvia Blakely shares how God uses community, confession, biblical truth, and honest conversation to bring healing to the deepest places of pain. Together, we talk about why healing cannot happen in isolation, how speaking our stories out loud changes us, and why some wounds reach far beyond what we initially recognize.

Sylvia also shares the heart behind her book Arise and Fly Free, written to create space for women of African descent to process abortion healing alongside the racial and generational wounds many carry silently. This episode explores the importance of being fully seen in healing spaces and reminds listeners that God is not intimidated by the layers of our story. He meets us there with compassion, truth, and restoration.

You’ll also hear a powerful discussion about grief, community, the role of skilled facilitators in healing groups, and why true healing must happen “from the bottom up” instead of simply covering pain with a surface-level fix.

Whether you are just beginning your healing journey or have walked through recovery before and realize there are still deeper places God wants to heal, this conversation offers hope that freedom is possible.

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

Questions This Episode Answers

• Why is community important in abortion healing?
• Can virtual abortion recovery groups really work?
• Why do some wounds resurface years later?
• How does speaking our story out loud help healing?
• What does “healing from the bottom up” mean?

Topics We Discuss

• Virtual vs. in-person abortion recovery groups
• The power of confession and community in healing
• Grief and the hidden weight many women carry
• Generational and racial trauma connected to abortion
• Creating safe healing spaces where women feel seen

Sylvia Blakely shares the deeply personal story of how years of hidden trauma, shame, and unresolved grief eventually led her to abortion and how God lovingly pursued her healing long after she believed she had moved on.

In this powerful first part of Sylvia’s story, we talk about the connection between past trauma, identity, self-worth, and the choices we make when we do not fully understand God’s love for us. Sylvia opens up about childhood wounds, sexual trauma, unhealthy relationship patterns, and the quiet shame that shaped the way she viewed herself for years.

She also shares the devastating reality of her abortion experience, the emotional numbness that followed, and the way she buried that grief for two decades before God began bringing those hidden wounds to the surface. Through honest conversation, we discuss what it feels like to carry unresolved pain, how trauma can leave us feeling “hollowed out,” and why healing often begins when we stop running from the struggle and allow God into it.

You’ll also hear a beautiful conversation about the butterfly process as a picture of transformation, the importance of wrestling honestly with God, and how biblical abortion recovery groups create space for women to finally bring hidden pain into the light.

This episode is a reminder that God does not waste our pain. Even after years of silence, shame, or spiritual distance, He still calls us into healing, freedom, and new life.

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

Questions This Episode Answers

• How does past trauma influence abortion decisions?
• Why can abortion grief surface years later?
• What does unresolved abortion trauma feel like?
• Can God heal shame that has been buried for decades?
• Why is struggle sometimes part of spiritual healing?

Topics We Discuss

• Trauma, self-worth, and porous boundaries
• The emotional impact of surgical abortion
• Suppressing grief and hidden pain after abortion
• Motherhood grief and identity after abortion
• Healing through biblical abortion recovery groups