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331-Coach Cheryl Weaver: She Had an Abortion. Then God Spoke.
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Connect with Coach Weaver: Click here: https://theresmoreministries.com/
A Note Before We Begin
Today’s conversation includes discussion of abortion, pregnancy loss, and the emotional and spiritual impact that can follow. If you have experienced an abortion, some of what you hear may bring up difficult emotions or memories. Please listen with care and give yourself permission to pause if you need to.
If you recognize that there are places in your own story that still need healing, you do not have to process them alone. Coach Cheryl offers confidential, faith-based healing and coaching sessions for women who desire a safe place to process their experience, work through unresolved pain, and move toward healing, freedom, and restoration. Contact Coach at weaver@theresmoreministries.com.
A listener note before you press play. This conversation is about abortion, grief, and healing. It is handled with care, and it is honest.
Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Coach Cheryl Weaver.
She was eighteen. She was not a Christian and she was not informed. She thought she had places to go and things to do, and she believed a clinic would let her get on with her life.
She says the procedure was the worst pain she has ever felt. When she screamed, the doctor told her to shut up or he would make her have the baby. She was already halfway through. Two weeks later a severe infection nearly killed her.
Then came the years nobody warns you about.
Her turn came after she came to faith. She says God spoke to her plainly about what had happened, and she asked forgiveness in that moment. That started a road that led her to lead post abortion healing groups for other women.
In those groups she noticed something. Grandmothers were showing up. Women who had carried this for decades before they could say it out loud.
She has a picture for what that does to a person. Holding a beach ball underwater. Every muscle, every thought, every part of you working to keep it down. And you are exhausted, and you do not know why.
Cheryl says abortion is the hardest thing she has watched women forgive themselves for, and that God forgives it fully anyway.
There is more in this conversation than that one story. She talks about the night she stood in a bathroom about to lock her heart away for good, and the plaque on the wall that stopped her. She talks about seven years of torment after she got saved, and what she learned about where to keep her focus. And she walks through her Root to Restore method, which starts with the leaves a woman brings in and works down to the root underneath them.
She names Forgiven and Set Free as a study she points women toward.
Her book is Unbroken Promises, available on Amazon. Her ministry is There's More Ministries, and she co hosts the mental health podcast Laughing with Lions. A nine week Root to Restore cohort starts this fall.
Find her at theresmoreministries.com and laughingwithlions.com.
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