Resources

This booklet was created by the Founder of Buttons Project, Marina Young. Many post abortive people are struggling alone with their pain and just waiting for the right person to hear their story. Someone who understands what she or he is going through, and someone who will not condemn them for what has happened. This booklet is just part of your healing journey and some coping strategies that you may find helpful.

Healing starts the moment you feel heard.

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This is part of Marina’s abortion story and journey of healing. Along with her husband, Peter, sharing from a male perspective, which is often not heard.

Marina is not a counsellor, but someone with certain life experiences which has shaped her into the person she is today. 

Marina worked in the Mental Health sector for a number of years and did some community papers, which have given an added insight into the effects abortion can have on a person’s emotional and physical wellbeing.

This is a great resource for all those that work in the community sector, churches, schools, all walks of life and for those personally affected by abortion. It has support networks and abortion research links. Email marina@buttonsproject.org or order on Amazon.

This is a collection of women's abortion stories in Australia.

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Giving Sorrow Words includes the personal accounts of 18 women who had abortions and draws on the experiences of more than 200 others. These women share their stories of personal suffering and loss—stories that have often gone unheard in a society eager to dismiss abortion-related trauma.

Australian journalist and women's rights advocate Melinda Tankard Reist examines the experiences of women, including the lack of resources and support, the misinformation and lack of informed consent, and the intension pressure and coercion often applied by partners, parents and society in general to force women into unwanted abortions.

Why? The question persisted but was unanswered. Many times it went unasked, yet it was always there. Ben had plans. He had dreams. Yet in a moment, and a moment beyond his control, fatherhood was lost...and Ben was adrift. A ship without a rudder being pushed by an unknown wind....he was almost daddy.

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This is an invitation to walk this path with Ben. The journey from original pain to healing is a winding, twisting road that no one should walk alone. Perhaps healing can be found and relationship restored with God. 

Because alone, healing rarely comes.

Men’s experiences are even more under-acknowledged than women’s experiences. This workbook focuses on men’s experiences, possible effects for men, and offers exercises to reflect on that experience.

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The manual is available in PDF version $35NZ.

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Queries or orders may be made by emailing carognad@gmail.com. Once order is received an invoice will be emailed or sent. Confirmation of order will be upon receipt of payment. Once payment received the copy of the workbook ordered will be sent.

Have you been affected by an abortion experience.  If so, this booklet can help you.  You are not alone in how you’re feeling right now.  Many men and women have gone through a range of emotions after their abortion, but are now on the journey to hope and healing.  You can start your journey today.  

Have you been affected by an abortion experience.  If so, this booklet can help you.  You are not alone in how you’re feeling right now.  Many men and women have gone through a range of emotions after their abortion, but are now on the journey to hope and healing.  You can start your journey today.  

“Once a woman is pregnant the choice is not simply between having a baby and not having a baby. The choice is between having a baby and having the experience of abortion. Both are life changing experiences. Both have significant psychological consequences, either contributing to or hindering a persons’ mental health” - Theresa Burke

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It is time to move beyond the politics of abortion and address the emotional needs of those who struggle with feelings of grief, shame, guilt, feeling or fearing beingjudged by others—and more. Social taboos stifle discussion of abortion-related feelings.

Forbidden Grief is a compelling and haunting review of Dr Theresa Burke’s experience in counselling hundreds of women after their abortions.

Dr Burke exposes obstacles in the way of post-abortion healing, reviews the full range and depth of post-abortion adjustment problems, and illustrates how we can create a more understanding and healing society where women will no longer be required to hide their pain.

A manual for counsellors, psychologists, therapists and pastors. This manual offers 14 Guideposts through a psychospiritual process for journeying with women  towards healing after an abortion/termination. It uses a holistic person-centred approach. It is suitable for both professional and lay support to provide insights into the sensitivity and needs of women after such an experience. The programme can be adjusted to work with men, grandparents or other family members or anyone impacted by an abortion/termination. The process is also transferable to working with any perinatal loss or birth trauma, other grief or trauma such as life changes, bereavements, unemployment etc

The manual is available in PDF version $50NZ.

Queries or orders may be made by emailing carognad@gmail.com  Once order is received an invoice will be emailed or sent. Confirmation of order will be upon receipt of payment. Once payment received the copy of the manual ordered will be sent.  
Copyright applies, but permission is given to copy handouts for client use.

A workbook for women for healing after an abortion

The manual is available in PDF version $35NZ.

Queries or orders may be made by emailing carognad@gmail.com  Once order is received an invoice will be emailed or sent. Confirmation of order will be upon receipt of payment. Once payment received the copy of the workbook ordered will be sent.