• Everything happens for a reason— or not.
    Apr 30 2026
    • The instagram post I mentioned
    • Rooibos chai tea (if you are the client who sent me this please tell me!)
    • Flip it Like This by @nakedpastor David Hayward
    • Did I miss something?! I came back to edit because I remembered: the threads post- LOL

    I believe that some things in life pick us…That’s exactly how I feel about my abortion.I don’t just think abortion picked me to teach me a lesson. I believe that my baby picked me so that I could do this work, so that I could help other women find the inner peace and strength I was able to access before, during, and after my procedure.
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    30 mins
  • A cranky AI resistant old lady rant.
    Apr 24 2026
    • Ethical guidance for AI in the professional practice of health service psychology
    • When should I get a colonoscopy?
    • When should I get a mammogram?
    • Margot's Got Money Problems and The Great
    • The article I mentioned at the end SlaveryAI

    I believe that some things in life pick us…That’s exactly how I feel about my abortion.I don’t just think abortion picked me to teach me a lesson. I believe that my baby picked me so that I could do this work, so that I could help other women find the inner peace and strength I was able to access before, during, and after my procedure.
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    32 mins
  • Abortion Riffs: My Vision
    Apr 16 2026
    • The jeans I'm loving: https://www.kohls.com/product/prd-7919968/womens-sonoma-goods-for-life-mid-rise-utility-barrel-jeans
    • Changed my mind and ordered prose haircare again- my referral link if you want to try: https://fbuy.io/prose/z3sed89x

    I recorded this before ANOTHER sickening day in the USA in which we learned about the motherless website where sexual assault is celebrated by men who are beyond sick. It's shocking to digest the fact that we have to fight for consent, autonomy and respect in so many ways.

    I believe that some things in life pick us…That’s exactly how I feel about my abortion.I don’t just think abortion picked me to teach me a lesson. I believe that my baby picked me so that I could do this work, so that I could help other women find the inner peace and strength I was able to access before, during, and after my procedure.
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    35 mins
  • Abortion Riffs: Group Support
    Apr 9 2026
    • Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice- rcrc.org
    • prose haircare- my referral link if you want to try: https://fbuy.io/prose/z3sed89x
    • DTF St.Louis- gotta say I'm enjoying it now that I'm a couple episodes in; I'm watching on HBOMax
    • Wicked by Gregory Macguire, The Women of Wild Hill by Kirsten Miller

    I believe that some things in life pick us…That’s exactly how I feel about my abortion.I don’t just think abortion picked me to teach me a lesson. I believe that my baby picked me so that I could do this work, so that I could help other women find the inner peace and strength I was able to access before, during, and after my procedure.
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    37 mins
  • Abortion Riffs: I'm Back
    Apr 2 2026
    • The Women of Wild Hill by Kirsten Miller
    • Survival of the Thickest streaming on Netflix

    Send me your life updates, abortion stories, and favorite things. I would be DELIGHTED to connect! amandastarkingsley@gmail.com

    I believe that some things in life pick us…That’s exactly how I feel about my abortion.I don’t just think abortion picked me to teach me a lesson. I believe that my baby picked me so that I could do this work, so that I could help other women find the inner peace and strength I was able to access before, during, and after my procedure.
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    14 mins
  • You Get to Decide What it Means
    Dec 18 2024

    What I wish I had heard after my abortion:

    "You get to decide what it means."

    ☀️💛☀️

    After abortion our thoughts can
    swirl
    cycle
    and torment us.

    Birth control can’t be trusted.
    People can’t be trusted.
    I can’t be trusted.

    Brains are always looking for a way to categorize and catalog our experience,
    but as clever as they are
    they don’t always have our best interest in mind.

    We get to decide;
    we can put our brains to work for us
    not against us.

    We get to believe anything we want to believe.
    We get to decide.

    Abortion showed us what to trust
    who to trust
    and how to trust.

    I believe that some things in life pick us…That’s exactly how I feel about my abortion.I don’t just think abortion picked me to teach me a lesson. I believe that my baby picked me so that I could do this work, so that I could help other women find the inner peace and strength I was able to access before, during, and after my procedure.
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    59 mins
  • You couldn't have been or done anything more
    Nov 13 2024

    What I wish I had heard after my abortion:

    “You couldn’t have been or done any more.”

    ☀️💛☀️

    Everything that led you here was enough.
    Including you.

    You are enough.
    You did enough
    asked enough
    considered enough
    tried enough.

    I know this to be true because “enough” is a fallacy.

    Enough is a lie we’re all striving to achieve
    but the truth is
    there is no enough.
    It doesn’t exist.

    You couldn’t have been any more enough then
    than you are now.

    Enough looks like:
    settling in and being
    without comparison
    without judgment
    without disdain.

    Only then will you find the freedom you desire for more.

    I believe that some things in life pick us…That’s exactly how I feel about my abortion.I don’t just think abortion picked me to teach me a lesson. I believe that my baby picked me so that I could do this work, so that I could help other women find the inner peace and strength I was able to access before, during, and after my procedure.
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Your Thoughts Will Change Over Time.
    Oct 15 2024

    What I wish I had heard after my abortion:

    “Your thoughts will change over time.”

    ☀️💛☀️

    Time doesn’t heal all wounds.

    Emotional pain after abortion is sourced in our thoughts.
    What we think is what we feel.

    In time, thoughts change.
    Changing thoughts, changing feelings.

    Tend to the gift that is your mind.
    Your mind is where you will find peace;
    your mind is where you will find freedom.

    Your mind is both the simplest,
    and the most complex tool you have.
    Use it wisely, or it will use you.

    Feed it nourishing content,
    surround it with loving company,
    be patient with it,
    but forever diligent.

    You were programed to survive,
    but you were born to thrive.

    I believe that some things in life pick us…That’s exactly how I feel about my abortion.I don’t just think abortion picked me to teach me a lesson. I believe that my baby picked me so that I could do this work, so that I could help other women find the inner peace and strength I was able to access before, during, and after my procedure.
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    47 mins