A Solitary Sorrow: Finding Healing & Wholeness after Abortion

This impressive book is written by a family therapist and a physician who have counseled hundreds of post-abortive women. Honest, accurate, and practical, it offers hope and encouragement to women seeking healing after abortion. A must for post-abortive women, their friends and family, pregnancy center counselors and other who seek to help.

More than one million American women have abortions each year. Yet hardly any of them talk about it.

Fear, anger, shame, loneliness. The abortion experience rises a multitude of powerful and confusing emotions. Often these feelings arise years-even decades- later. Is healing possible? Teri and Paul Reisser address these intensely personal struggles and help women find reconciliation, hop, and healing after abortion with women's own stories, the Ressiers consider such topics as: 

• The loneliness of the abortion experience
• Symptoms of post-abortion syndrome
• The pain of ongoing memories 
• Handling anger and grief
• Finding peace with self, others, and God

This book includes a list of resources, as well as questions for individual reflection or group discussion.