Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada     ,   1 902 423-9955

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If you are seeking post-abortion healing, Project Rachel invites you to choose what you feel is best for you.

Sometimes:

• When you call our confidential phone line, you may just want to talk about your abortion and share the secret with someone who will not condemn you.
• You may ask us to send you the Pastel Brochures which have been written by our Project Rachel Women.
• You may welcome information on Forgiveness, Guilt, Grief and Post-abortion Syndrome.
• You may tell us you don't want any information for privacy sake and we respect that wish.
• You may arrange for a one-time meeting to share your story in person and that may be all you want at that time.
• Most often what you really want to hear is that you are accepted, not judged, you are a good person. You have been blessed with great courage to share this part of your life with us.
  

However, if you are seeking further post-abortion healing, then you have these options:

A Support Group:

You may choose to meet in a support group setting. The group usually meets over a period of 11 weeks and addresses various topics such as the abortion decision, post-abortion syndrome (abortion's aftermath), anger, forgiveness, a letter to your baby, naming baby, etc. The group environment helps you to realize that you are not alone in your post-abortion suffering and allows you to experience the support and compassion of others who are also seeking healing from an abortion.

Just Me:

Some of you may not feel comfortable sharing your story in a group setting, or you may not have the time to attend a support group. You may wish to meet with 2 of our facilitators to schedule a time more convenient for you. The same topics that are shared in the group setting will be part of your healing journey too.

....and the healing continues!
The following were written by one of our Project Rachel women who attended our PR support group in 2003.  Her insights have spanned several years starting with the first email in Nov. 2004, another in Dec. 2005 and the latest one in April 2007.   These hope filled messages are so inspiring because they indicate that the healing continues, that healing is a process. They proclaim that life goes on being lived more fully and that the support group is only the start of this marvelous healing journey. We are so grateful that she has allowed us to share her insights.

Nov.21, 2004..... "I want to thank you and the rest of the Project Rachel women for giving me back my life. It's been a whole year since we last spoke, but I wanted you to know that not a day goes by when I don't think of you and the way in which you changed my life. I was a broken, confused and scared girl that first night, and today, only a year later, my life is so rich! My precious little baby girl was born in October 2004. I would love to share the message of peace and forgiveness that I have received with all of the Project Rachel women. During the support group sessions I attended, one of the facilitators, a forgiven and healed Project Rachel woman herself, told us not to listen to the devil on your shoulder when the doubts of God's true forgiveness creep into your mind. Her message has meant so much to me. She was so right! Those words have helped me many times to flick the devil off my shoulder!!! God Bless."

Dec. 2005..."Thank you so much for everything that you have done for me and the other 'girls' of Project Rachel. I am so grateful to you for the beautiful gift you have given me through your ministry -- I finally feel as though I have my life back! I don't give in to 'the other guy' anymore...gone is the self-loathing and the immense pain. I walk lighter, hold my head higher and feel sooooo much better. I finally have a relationship with my dear little C.C (Charles Christopher). I no longer deny his existence -- and isn't that what abortion really is? The denial!!

Please understand that although I pulled back a bit after our (2003) group finished -- I was doing so only unconsciously. It was an emotional journey and I think that I thought that I wasn't ready to revisit, so to speak. Saturday, Dec. 3/05, however affirmed for me what you have always said "We don't dwell in the past, we grow in the healing." How true.

Thank you for giving me the duty of being "God Mother" to T.'s little Rebecca. It means so much for me to have come full circle!"

April, 2007....(her second baby girl was born in December/06!)

While standing at the baptism font with my husband and my two beautiful babies, I was struck by the glory and the mercy that is the Lord.  How great a love he has for us all.  When I renewed my own baptismal prayers, I was overcome with a sense of great love, a peace that I thought I would never find.

Thank you again for listening to God's call.  Because of the wonderful ladies at Project Rachel, I am able to rejoice again in the love of Jesus Christ, our Lord.

(this young woman is now one of our Project Rachel facilitators)