After Abortion Grief Care and Support
CoeurAge offers support to every person who feels the need to grieve their abortion expereince. We acknowledge that not all who have an abortion are hurt. However, if you are a woman who had an abortion, a man who’s partner had an abortion, a parent who’s daughter or son had an abortion, a friend who accompanied someone to an abortion clinic, a health-care worker who assisted in an abortion porcedure, or anybody who has mixed feelings about their abortion experience, we are here for you.
We encourage women and men to feel confident they can overcome grief in a meaningful way that constructs a healthy basis for personal wholeness through 9 Stages of Recovery.
WHY
Because your pain deserves to be acknowledged. Because your loss matters.
HOW
Through group sessions where you can meet others who have had a similiar loss; people who will underestand your pain and value your story. Also we offer one-on-one online support.
WHEN
We offer 3 recovery seasons per year. One season consists in 1 session per week for 10 weeks.
WHERE
Montreal area
Stages of Recovery
“I thought I made the right choice. Everyone thinks I should just get over it, but I can’t. It’s just too hard.”
“I never really wanted to go through with it, but I felt like I had no choice.”
“The fact that I am not the only one who is grieving her abortion makes me feel less alone.”
Throughout 10 sessions, we will offer personal and confidential aide to encourage anyone who had an abortion experience to acknowledge their emotions and share their story. Through dinamic approaches, participants will learn to let go of the guilt and shame, to forgive, while exercising their own strength; to face all the challenges that their loss has brought to their personal and social life. That is why a core value of the program is RESILIENCE : the ability to grow and transform through difficult experiences. The Stages of Recovery will facilitate their re-discovery and re-validation of themselves and the life they want to lead.