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Life After Abortion and Miscarriage: From Shame to Surrender

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Life After Abortion and Miscarriage: From Shame to Surrender By: The Other Side of Victory About the Life After Series If you’re new here, Life After is a blog series featuring 15 women, 15 battles, and one powerful truth: there is life after. Through heartbreak, healing, and hard-won hope, Coach Jaleesa’s Happy Wife Happy Life is honored to help share their stories with the world. Foreword by Coach Jaleesa The following blog is one of the most transparent and emotionally complex pieces I’ve had the privilege to share on Happy Wife, Happy Life. It’s a journey through abortion, miscarriage, grief, and spiritual restoration. If you’ve ever felt torn between your faith and your past, or if you’re carrying a secret burden you think disqualifies you from healing, this story is for you. As always, please read with care. This post may be emotionally triggering for some and is not appropriate for young children. But I pray that through these words, someone feels seen, understood, and...
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Life After Losing Her: Grief, Depression, and the Journey to Heal

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Life After Losing Her: Grief, Depression, and the Journey to Heal Growing Up Without My Mother—and Learning to Live Again Foreword by Coach Jaleesa What happens when the one person who made you feel safe, seen, and loved…is suddenly gone forever? This story is a reminder that grief has no age limit. That childhood loss leaves scars we don’t always have the language to explain. But it’s also proof that healing is possible—even if it takes years. If you’ve ever felt stuck in your pain, angry with God, or just tired of pretending to be okay…read this slowly. Let it comfort you, challenge you, and remind you that healing doesn’t mean forgetting—it means learning to live through it. I had a typical childhood like any other six year old girl with pigtails. Stress free, no care in the world, full of energy, and a vast imagination. I knew I was capable of doing anything I wanted. If I could think it could do it (This got me in trouble most of the time). My mother had such a quiet and peace...
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Life After Molestation: The Wounds You Can’t See

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Life After Molestation: The Wounds You Can’t See About the Life After Series If you’re new here, Life After is a blog series featuring 15 women, 15 battles, and one powerful truth: there is life after. Through heartbreak, healing, and hard-won hope, Coach Jaleesa’s Happy Wife Happy Life is honored to help share their stories with the world. Foreword by Coach Jaleesa: The following blog was submitted by one of my Happy Life, Happy Wife readers. Her story is still being written but I am so grateful that she had the courage to share her journey. I hope this blog, like all the others, helps someone who is going through the same thing. If you, or someone you know, is going through sexual abuse please contact help. One of the biggest tricks of the enemy is to make you believe that you are alone and that simply isn't true. Read with caution; not appropriate for children. Sexual Abuse Hotline: 1-800-656-4673 When Innocence Is Stolen When I was a young child, I spent a lot of...
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Life After Loss: Lies and Letting Go

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Life After Loss: Lies and Letting Go If you’re new here, Life After is a blog series featuring 15 women, 15 battles, and one powerful truth: there is life after. Through heartbreak, healing, and hard-won hope, Coach Jaleesa’s Happy Wife Happy Life is honored to help share their stories with the world. Foreword by Coach Jaleesa Some stories carry so many layers that it’s hard to find the words. This is one of them. What you’re about to read is raw, real, and unforgettable. It’s about grief, betrayal, survival, motherhood, and the kind of faith that only shows up when everything else falls apart. This blog isn’t just a testimony—it’s proof that God’s grace can hold you together even when life tries to break you in pieces. May it remind you: survival is strength. And healing is holy. An Unexpected Pregnancy and a Deep Regret I must’ve taken a dozen of them, and every last one came back positive. I’m so upset with myself. How could I get pregnant by the jump off? He was j...
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Life After Miscarriage: When Joy Is Interrupted

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Life After Miscarriage: When Joy Is Interrupted About the Life After Series If you’re new here, Life After is a blog series featuring 15 women, 15 battles, and one powerful truth: there is life after. Through heartbreak, healing, and hard-won hope, Coach Jaleesa’s Happy Wife Happy Life is honored to help share their stories with the world. Foreword by Coach Jaleesa There are losses we carry with us forever. This story is about one of those. It’s about a woman who went from the joy of a positive test to the heartbreak of unexpected loss. It's about the pain of having to grieve quietly while the world tells you to “just try again.” But most of all, it’s about a faith that didn’t vanish in the dark—but slowly, gently found its way back to the light. If you’ve ever walked through miscarriage or felt like your prayers went unanswered, this story will remind you: you’re not alone, and you’re not forgotten. From Joy to Grief I found out that I was pregnant on October 12, 2015....
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Life After Heartbreak: How I Lost My Marriage, My Home, and Almost Myself

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Life After Heartbreak How I Lost My Marriage, My Home, and Almost Myself About the Life After Series If you’re new here, Life After is a blog series featuring 15 women, 15 battles, and one powerful truth: there is life after. Through heartbreak, healing, and hard-won hope, Coach Jaleesa’s Happy Wife Happy Life is honored to help share their stories with the world. Foreword by Coach Jaleesa Some stories leave you speechless. Others leave you standing in awe—and this is one of them. When this guest post came across my desk, I knew it wasn’t just a testimony—it was a turning point wrapped in truth, pain, and undeniable strength. She entrusted me with a piece of her journey—a story of heartbreak, betrayal, survival, and unwavering determination. For every woman who has ever questioned her worth after being left, lied to, or let down… this one’s for you. The Beginning of the Relationship "Let me get up". Sitting there on the couch at my sister's house, where it was ...
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Life After Abortion: When the Healing Hurts Too

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Life After Abortion: When the Healing Hurts Too Foreword by Coach Jaleesa: It’s easy to talk about healing when we’re on the other side of the pain, but what about the moments when you feel like healing might break you first? When the people who should protect you leave you, and you’re left holding the weight of your choices, your fears, and your faith—alone? This story is not about judgment. It’s about honesty. It’s about what happens when shame tries to silence you, and God interrupts that silence with grace. If you’re carrying the pain of a decision you made in the dark, know this: you are not disqualified from love, healing, or purpose. Please read with care, and with compassion. This entry in the Life After series is raw, redemptive, and rooted in the truth that even our worst moments are never too far for God to reach. The Decision No One Prepares You For In November of 2014, I had an abortion. The day right before Thanksgiving. I read up online about how it would happen and...
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