Supporting Chloe’s House
Together, we can build the resources and safe space for women and families dealing with stressful situations involving child birth and pregnancy. Funding for Chloe’s House goes directly to building the virtual resources and eventually the physical home of refuge we are striving to create. Thank you for supporting us on our mission of helping women everywhere, regardless of religious background, beliefs or circumstances.
From Mackenzie:
Hi, my name is MacKenzie Nelson and I'm hoping to start a non-profit called Chloe's House. I wrote specifically in my book "My Father's Feathers: A Journey of Transformation and Healing One Feather at a Time" about my dream to create one (or more) Chloe's House(s) in each state to help pregnant women. After I had an abortion deciding to do so in a place of unrealized and unprocessed sexual, emotional, mental, and some physical abuse, I greatly regretted it. Now, twenty years later and on the other side and healed, I want to go back and help other women by gifting them what I did not have: access to free therapy assessments and sessions to better equip them to decide how they would like to proceed with their pregnancy.
The professionals can illuminate how factors such as their upbringing, life experiences, and background contribute to and help formulate their unique perspectives. They can help each woman understand how the totality of it all impacts the decision they are making regarding their pregnancy. It is my hope that through further exploring their own lived experiences with a therapist, women can get a more well-rounded idea of how their relationships with their mother, their father, and other family members contribute to forming their own perception about how they view motherhood, pregnancy, abortion, giving birth, and adoption.
We are each unique and have had our own journey specific to us in terms of pregnancy. I want this to be a place where each woman is met where she is at in her journey, listened to, and respected for the human being she is, regardless of her opinions or viewpoints. We each have different experiences that have helped mold and shape and make us into the person we are, and I think we each possess a valuable piece of information or knowledge to help someone else. And I believe we are helped and healed in the process, when we come together in a spirit of sharing and openness with one another.
Chloe’s House will serve as a respite away from the opinions of the rest of the world not currently personally facing the choice regarding the heated, embroiled battle at the forefront of the decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade. It will be specifically focused on the women who are personally facing this decision apart from many who are weighing in with little to no personal experience walking out a pregnancy. This will also serve as a place of healing for women like me who have chosen an option they wished they wouldn’t have chosen, but can come and find other women to lean on and therapists to talk to. I had no one to guide me through the hardest time in my life, so I want this to be the place I wished I could go to, to find out what’s next, free of judgment.
I want to have ongoing open seminars for pregnant women considering their options to hear testimonies like mine. What does the decision to abort look like five years, ten years, twenty years down the road? I want to book women to speak and share from all walks of life with all kinds of lived experiences, and choices made and the impact of that decision on their lives. I want the woman who gave up her baby for adoption to share about the process, about how she felt, about how she feels now, and the same for the woman who chose to keep her baby and how she feels.
Each speaker can provide a fresh, personalized viewpoint of a different option she made and how it impacted her life. By listening to various women share a variety of experiences and choices, it is my hope the pregnant woman facing her own choice will feel more prepared and educated to decide what is best for her.
I know Chloe’s House won’t be perfect, but neither is this world.
Neither are circumstances. Neither am I. At the heart of my organization will be a burning desire and passion to help women have the ability and access to information, resources, therapy, and testimonies about various decisions other women have made, and how those choices have personally impacted them. I believe each woman deserves to have a voice, no matter her story, no matter where she is at, no matter what she believes. I envision a place where taboo conversations ruled too risky, too uncomfortable to discuss in society’s typical places, can take place freely. Chloe’s House will take women’s secret, silent pain and struggles off mute and give them back their voices.
Help me make Chloe's House a reality by donating today. Every dollar counts towards helping me establish this much-needed organization!