The strategy, "Condensing a personal experience," aims to improve the readability of a narrative involving abuse during pregnancy and the subsequent self-administered abortion. It involves creating a concise narrative by highlighting the key points of abuse, emphasizing the safety-driven decision not to continue the pregnancy, and describing the unpredictability in the relationship. For instance, the narrative focuses on emotional and physical challenges, ensuring authenticity and clarity by maintaining the personal voice and chronological organization.
Simplifying complex sentences helps keep the reader engaged. This involves breaking down long sentences, using active voice, and eliminating redundancies. For example, sentences are restructured to have clear subjects and verbs, ensuring the language conveys urgency and seriousness.
Focusing on emotional impact highlights the distress and internal conflict experienced. The narrative describes the fear of raising a child in an abusive environment and the isolation during self-abortion. By maintaining a tone of resilience, it communicates relief and self-preservation, showing hope for future motherhood amidst adversity.
The strategies
⛳️ Strategy 1: Create a concise narrative
- Highlight key points of abuse experienced during early pregnancy
- Emphasise the decision to not continue the pregnancy due to safety concerns
- Describe the unpredictability and fear in the abusive relationship
- Summarise the emotional burden of potential motherhood in an unsafe environment
- Detail the necessity and decision to self-administer an abortion
- Acknowledge the challenges of not having professional support during the abortion
- Express the future hope of having children in a safer setting
- Illustrate the potential danger if forced to continue the pregnancy
- Convey the relief and sense of preservation from self-administering the abortion
- Create an empathetic understanding of the situation
⛳️ Strategy 2: Simplify complex sentences
- Break down long sentences into shorter, clearer ones
- Use active voice to maintain reader engagement
- Remove any redundant or repeated information
- Focus on key emotional and physical experiences
- Use direct language to convey urgency and seriousness of the situation
- Maintain the personal voice for authenticity
- Organise events chronologically for logical flow
- Ensure each sentence has a clear subject and verb
- Avoid overly complex words or medical terminology unless necessary
- Keep the tone respectful and empathetic
⛳️ Strategy 3: Focus on emotional impact
- Highlight the emotional distress faced in the relationship
- Emphasise the mental and physical challenges of the decision
- Convey the internal conflict about the abortion decision
- Illustrate the fear of bringing a child into an abusive environment
- Discuss the isolation felt during self-administered abortion
- Describe the hopeful outlook for future motherhood
- Acknowledge the sense of self-preservation taking precedence
- Narrate the additional trauma from the lack of professional support
- Communicate the relief despite the difficult decision
- Maintain a tone of resilience and courage throughout
Bringing accountability to your strategy
It's one thing to have a plan, it's another to stick to it. We hope that the examples above will help you get started with your own strategy, but we also know that it's easy to get lost in the day-to-day effort.
That's why we built Tability: to help you track your progress, keep your team aligned, and make sure you're always moving in the right direction.
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