Abortion After Miscarriage
Leah M. Forney is a 8X published author, Transformative Speaker, Your Visibility Activator, Podcast Host of International Streamed Hey Queen, Thrive & Sexual Assault Thriver & Advocate. She believes that the power of storytelling is but one of the many tools you can employ to heal, thrive and win.
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Show Notes:
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Leah is publishing her 9th book
Hey Queen Thrive
“I’m an angel mom” pregnant in the last week of college “I had what they call a missed abortion”
“All abortions are not someone making a decision that they don’t want to have a child”
When the secret is out of the bag
Raised in a Christian family- pregnant and not married
“I’ll be honest; I wasn’t for abortion”
“It was so hard to process in the moment”
“Life was still happening” surgery date during finals
“I remember getting on the gurney in the surgery room and tears just started to flow”
“That was the first time in my life I felt so alone”
Family “Their response was not a nice one”
“That was the first time I questioned God or Christianity”
“For many of us it’s not that easy of a decision”
“Not wanting to continue to be a disappointment to my family”
“I’m gonna pretend this didn’t happen… on the inside I was dying”
Life After Loss Theresa Mitchell
So many factors that would lead us to not choose life
“I was really good at blocking… then something would come along and trigger it”
As a black woman “therapy wasn’t something we talked about… pray it away”
“It didn’t make sense that I would serve a God that would serve a prayer that didn’t have good intentions”
“I questioned everything I knew about God”
“I didn’t deal with that, or any of the traumatic experiences in my life until I found my way back to god”
“I was wise enough to remember what I was taught”
“I can look back now and understand his will at that moment… I’m so glad that I did not end up connected to this person for the rest of my life”
“I’m putting you here as a messenger” God’s way
“She was so courageous… I’m proud of her”
“We want to please other people, but what about pleasing yourself”
“It all looks different for everybody”
“There’s no right or wrong way to be a mom”
“Give yourself some grace… practice self-compassion… learn the lessons and let it make you a better person”
“Let it make you better, not bitter”
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