Creativity will never be quenched, especially creativity that comes out of a desire to make a difference.  To fill a void that has yet to be filled.  In this case creativity joined purpose and gave birth to ClearLinQ.

ClearLinQ brings creativity to the world of unintended pregnancy with new and long overdue resources. ClearLinQ has created resources intended to be a bridge to exceptional support.  Support for both the woman facing an unintended pregnancy and those who provide assistance to her along her journey.

Creating Clarity through Decision Aid

The Patient Decision Aids Research Group, in Ottawa, Canada, defines decision aids as:

Tools that help people become involved in decision making by making explicit the decision that needs to be made, providing information about the options and outcomes, and by clarifying personal values. They are designed to complement, rather than replace, counseling from a health practitioner.

Clarity is defined as the ability to think clearly and not be confused.  ClearLinQ believes clarity is a key component of decision-making.  Gaining clarity is essential but not always easy.  ClearLinQ has developed innovative, practical decision aid solutions for you.  

Gaining Clarity just got Easier

Clarity is within your reach.  ClearLinQ tools to help you on your pathway to clarity:

1. My Decision Aid is a unique and specialized tool for individual use.  Helping women clarify next steps when faced with an unintended pregnancy.
2. Decision Guide for Your Unintended Pregnancy engages you along the journey.  It is a useful resource used in combination with My Decision Aid.
3. Clarity Tool is a free rapid assessment tool created with physicians and community practitioners in mind.  Helping you offer comprehensive support to your patients and clients.
4. The BEST Test is a tool designed to help you navigate the conversations you will engage in when offering support.

“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped”.

Anthony Robins

 We’re thrilled you’ve discovered our new home on the web. We’ll be adding regular content to our blog. With these posts we’re hoping to publish frequent, thought-provoking articles. We hope more than anything to create a dialogue – we want feedback and participation from people like you. Don’t hesitate to comment or contact us!

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Unintended pregnancy affects upwards to 156,000 women in Canada annually.    Worldwide the number of unintended pregnancies is in the range of 83 million or 40% of all pregnancies.

83 Million Women Making Decisions

It only made sense there should be specialized resources to support women faced with unintended pregnancy.  ClearLinQ has developed innovative and practical resources as a bridge to comprehensive support.

1. My Decision Aid is a unique and specialized tool for individual use.  Helping women clarify next steps when faced with an unintended pregnancy.
2. Decision Guide for Your Unintended Pregnancy engages you along the journey.  It is a useful resource used in combination with My Decision Aid.
3. Clarity Tool is a free rapid assessment tool created with physicians and community practitioners in mind.  Helping you offer comprehensive support to your patients and clients.
4. The BEST Test is a tool designed to help you navigate the conversations you will engage in when offering support.

We are all decision GURUS, whether we like it or not.  How many decisions do you think you make in a day? Some would say you make thousands of decisions each day.  A quick Google search will confirm.

Psychology Today published a much lower number. On average, they say, you make approximately 70 conscious decisions each day.

Another source suggests you’ll make about 773,618 decisions over a lifetime and come to regret 143,262 of them.

Decision-making is a normal part of life, but decision processing may be overlooked.

The Heath Brothers, authors of best-selling book, Decisive, spent some time thinking through decision-process.  They came to the conclusion that “process” is rarely used when people are confronted with important decision-making. By the way they have some excellent free resources.

Defining or “processing” your decisions doesn’t have to be rare.

No one wants to regret a decision, let alone 143,262 decisions over their lifetime. We grow and mature as a result of both the winning decisions and the regretful ones.

Some regret can make us stronger but some regret can linger and even weigh us down.

Minimizing the potential for regret can be done through intentionally processing decisions.

1. Make time and space for decision processing

It won’t happen on its own.  Choose to make it a priority.  Without taking time to process a decision, you might end up with an outcome as opposed to a decision. An outcome may lead to regret.

2. Make room for your emotions

Situations requiring decisions are often accompanied by emotions. Recognize emotions are a normal and expected.

You might be tempted to suppress your emotions. Don’t. Give yourself permission to feel so that you can manage your emotions.

3. Make yourself a priority

It’s not just OK to permit yourself time and space for processing your decision; it’s essential.

You are the most influential person in your life.  Be your own greatest advocate.

Make processing a priority simply because you owe it to yourself.  Don’t hit the default button and end up with a less than desirable result. Give yourself the gift of a decision.

4. Make use of available decision aid resources

You might be surprised by the inventory of decision-making resources that already exists. Ultimately the decision will always be up to you but you can take advantage of helpful tools along the way.

Experts in all kinds of fields have created decision aids to support the process of decision-making. You can find a decision aid for almost any medical condition.

ClearLinQ has created My Decision Aid for anyone facing an unintended pregnancy.  Each year approximately 156,000 Canadian women are faced with an unintended pregnancy decision.

My Decision Aid is a unique and specialized resource (the only one of its kind in the world) supporting women in their decision-making process.

5. Make use of supportive people

People can offer us invaluable support.  Sometimes it’s a friend, a family member, a colleague, or a neighbour.  Other times it’s a medical or community professional.

Seeking support from someone who is trusted and has your best interest in mind can be very helpful.

ClearLinQ has developed resources for those who offer support to women facing unintended pregnancy.  Resources have been developed with both the professional and the friend in mind.