Parenting, Guilt, and Abortion
Jesse Sweed is a parent and parenting coach with personal experiencing navigating abortion in a relationship. Jesse has vast expertise in helping people release guilt and find forgiveness.
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https://theviewfromtheclinic.com/
Show Notes:
Jesse’s story
“If you get there and you change your mind, it’s okay.”
“I’m an emotional person… don’t have an emotional connection”
Money is a common factor but usually not the only factor
Talking to kids about abortion (and everything)
“I asked my mom one time, ‘Why didn’t you have an abortion?”
What do you believe that allows you to parent the way that you parent?
“I used to be a strong evangelical Christian… the kind that would be on a subway and talk to you about Jesus”
“I’m not attached to any belief; I’m not afraid to be wrong”
“Admitting to be human”
“Being wrong means that I’m learning”
“I was wrong about that”
None of us really know and everything’s always changing
Value statement
“It’s nobody’s fault; it happened”
Self-forgiveness is the best thing you can do for yourself and for honoring the decision that you made”
Abortion is an invitation to explore that guilt/doubt/shame… let’s look so we can live fuller brighter more expansive lives
“Best way to honor that decision is to not trample yourself”
“Nobody thinks they are the bad guy, they think they are the good guy”
“The less you know about a subject the more you think you are right”
Belief gives you access to something
When we look back and change our perception
“What do we do now?”
Writing letters to baby/self/past self
The conversation in your head is much clearer than the conversation we have out loud
Extreme ownership
The self-talk that gets us stuck in a loop
Build a family culture
