The Longing for Significance There is within each person a need, a yearning for significance, a longing to believe that my life matters, that I have worth and value as a human being. Thousands of self-help books speak to this longing. People have sought to fill this void with their work, their accomplishments, their relationships.…..

Gifts and Gift Giving As we light the third candle of Advent, the Candle of Joy, we pause to reflect on the true nature of joy, revealed not in what we receive, but in the gift God has given to the world in Jesus Christ.  When is a gift truly a gift? There may be…..

When we hear the words promise, or I promise, we often experience a fair amount of skepticism. How much depends on how often we have seen promises go unfulfilled or been disappointed. In the classic Christmas movie "Jingle All The Way”, the character played by Arnold Schwarzenegger is always making promises to his son and…..

Fear – it comes at all of us in all manner of ways. Watch the news very long, fear is there. Listen to politicians, fear is there. Doom-scrolling? Fear is implicit in the word. We may fear different things (think spiders, snakes, bats and rats) but we all experience fear (we even have FOMO as…..

Researchers investigating post-abortion reactions report only one positive emotion: relief. This emotion is understandable, especially in light of the fact that the majority of aborting women report feeling under intense pressure to "get it over with."8,23 Temporary feelings of relief are frequently followed by a period psychiatrists identify as emotional "paralysis," or post-abortion "numbness."18 Like shell-shocked…..

Almost one half of all pregnancies worldwide ends in reproductive loss.[1]   This is a shocking statistic yet, despite the striking frequency of reproductive loss, there is relatively little public discussion about its harms. Not surprising, researchers with different points of view reach different conclusions about the extent of these harms, and these issues continue to…..

Revisiting Social Policies: Acknowledging Reproductive Loss Approximately one half of all pregnancies worldwide ends in reproductive loss[1] - by reproductive loss I mean the spontaneous loss of a miscarriage or stillbirth, or the induced loss of an abortion.  This is a shocking statistic yet, despite the striking frequency of reproductive loss worldwide, there is relatively…..

https://www.cureus.com/articles/124269-effects-of-pressure-to-abort-on-womens-emotional-responses-and-mental-health#!..

Trauma work requires the patient to recover all of the details and images of the traumatic experience and to construct a narrative that unites the memory fragments and brings closure to the experience. This must be done at both conscious and unconscious levels. Trauma work converts the unfinished experiential memory fragments into a coherent memory…..

As we approach the 40th anniversary of Roe and Doe on January 22, 2013, where are we?  Ever since those beginnings our Supreme Court has based much of its jurisprudence on its understanding of the health consequences of abortion or birth on women, including their mental health.[1]             In Doe v. Bolton, the Supreme Court…..