Following an abortion, many women may be confused by their emotional and behavioral responses, such as regret, anger, depression, shame, loss, or loneliness. They may have relationship or intimacy problems and have difficulty giving and receiving forgiveness.

Transforming Your Story: A Path to Healing After Abortion is an abortion recovery resource created for use in small facilitated groups to provide healing support. It can also be beneficial for those who are seeking healing individually with support from a friend, mentor, or helping professional.
 

In this book, stories from the Bible provide an avenue for women to explore their own stories and process their conflicting emotions one step at a time. Personal questions delve into the heart and mind, spiritual tools and symbolic actions are suggested to engage the body and mind, and prayer is encouraged to open the heart and spirit to hope and peace. Accounts by women who have found healing from a past abortion foster a sense of community and provide encouragement.
 

By hiking this path to recovery, a woman can transform her painful story of confusion into a story of hope and healing.
 

About the Author

Wendy Giancola is the director of Post Abortion Trauma Healing (PATH) at the Capitol Hill Pregnancy Center in Washington, DC. She is a talented speaker and educator in public and non-profit settings.
 

For nearly 7 years, Wendy has walked with many women, individually or in groups, on their paths to healing, and she has been blessed to continue as a mentor to some of these women. She continuously marvels at how God has transformed her wounded story into a story of His grace and restoration.
 

Wendy holds a master’s degree in family studies from Kent State University and lives in northern Virginia with her incredibly supportive husband.

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Praise for the Book

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Transforming Your Story is a powerful, wonderfully written, and engaging tool for post-abortive women. Within the pages of this guide, God reveals wounds and healing begins. Although abortion is not the beginning of our stories, it is a chapter that God can redeem, and this guide offers a clear path for Him to work. Each chapter’s real-life encouraging stories and activities help the reader apply the truth of the lesson and not feel alone in the journey. The story format makes the guide relatable and easy to understand, and its great value comes from the fact that it was written by someone who has “been there, done that.” The author’s love for God and His transforming power are evident on every page. God will give “beauty for ashes” (Isaiah 61:3) as readers use this tool to shed the layers of pain and delve deep into His grace, love, and forgiveness.
—Cheryl Dudek, director of programs, Laurel Pregnancy Center

Wendy Giancola has written a beautiful book. She models true vulnerability, pouring her heart and soul into finding just the right words to help the reader connect with healing, peace, and reconciliation after an abortion. Her garden analogy and the personal stories throughout make this a very user-friendly book. As women, we often struggle after an abortion. Transforming Your Story helps us take that painful choice and integrate it into who we are now so that it no longer controls us.”
—The Reverend Georgette Forney, president, Anglicans for Life, and cofounder, Silent No More Awareness Campaign

Broken and feeling ashamed because of an abortion, I accepted an invitation to participate with sisters in Christ in a post-abortion care group. As I was read to surrender my brokenness and receive healing, this book provided me with tangible tools—in most cases Scripture—that exposed my sin, changed my perspective, and transformed my heart. I especially liked that the author uses stories from post-abortive women, which made the book very personal and relatable.”
—Sharon, past group participant