Abortion and the Journey to Self-Worth
Jessika Whitney mentors coaches to grow their biz & make money with calm & confidence. She is also the host of the Totally Confident Podcast. She brings her personal abortion story and her years of wisdom to this episode.
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Show Notes:
1:17 Jessika’s introduction
4:00 “What is true for me vs. societal pressure”
5:54 “the whole spectrum of emotions”
Pros & Cons list “This isn’t how I want having a baby to feel”
7:05 “Stepping into a deeper sense of self-worth” … “getting intimate with my own self-worth”
8:16 “When I really sat down with myself”
8:45 “I know what I can create if I take my own self-worth and put that at the forefront”
10:57 “I know that I’m powerful enough and capable enough to be a woman who has children and has a business, and does all these things, and at the same time I didn’t want to have to flex my power in that way”
Can I “yes,” do I want to “no.”
13:17 “It felt so joyful to make a decision that was serving myself powerfully for the first time in my life in this way”
14:10 “It unlocked something for me… a new level of self-worth.. so making decisions got easier and easier and easier for me”
14:42 “I finally had the courage, because I had the courage to stand for myself”
15:03 “It was a huge breakthrough in what I felt worthy of having”
16:53 “It was the thing that I decided would give me that power”
18:38 “Because I had already done the work to allow that to be a possibility, when it became a real possibility it wasn’t as shocking. I had already given myself permission”
Abortion Happens. Have a plan.
What else do I want to do with that power? It showed me myself in a new way
My decision. My power.
26:23 “It can feel scary because we have to take responsibility for the decision we make”
27: 42 The decision to choose or not choose the procedure was as important as the decision to choose or not choose me afterwards.
28:28 We haven’t had hundreds of years of decision making power, we are harnessing power that we weren’t trained as little girls to have.
29:13 “I was able to notice that I was having these biological urges that wanted me to have a baby… I was able to notice the urge… and use my brain to decide”
Not in the highest good of everyone involved.
31:54 “3 egg donations in my 20s”
33:33 “I think I knew the whole time I would get an abortion, but I actually allowed myself time to be in the pregnancy and the decision”
37:37 “When we try to make anything other than what it is, there’s a lot of resistance”
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