Mary Thissen
Healing after the journey ends
If you’ve discerned this is the end of your trying-to-conceive journey, do not despair. If your family size is smaller than desired...
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C. J. Parke
Oct 235 min read
Vulnerability is hard: telling a partner about infertility
It’s not something I would wish on my worst enemy, but it is something I’ve had to do, and it was perhaps the most vulnerable moments of...
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Rachel Walters
Oct 15 min read
Judith’s call to action: being fruitful where God places you
Society tends to define a woman's fruitfulness by her ability to bear children. This concept of fruitfulness is narrow and can leave those..
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Mary Bruno
Sep 244 min read
Holding space for the joy that infertility stole
I wrote out my entire personal journey in a memoir I published several years ago called “Twelve Stripes Deep: How Infertility & Other ...
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Sonia-Maria Szymanski
Sep 114 min read
Finding fruitfulness beyond the wound
Dear Lord,
I find myself plagued with a deep-rooted desire I am unable to quench.
Only Your strength can heal this wound...
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C. J. Parke
Sep 36 min read
The Night is Dark: a reflection on The Letters
Dear Sisters, while the title of this post may seem grim or intimidating, I promise you there will be just as much light as there is dark ..
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Shiloh IVF Ministry
Aug 143 min read
Shiloh IVF Ministry: a first-of-its-kind outreach for IVF healing
Shiloh IVF Ministry has formed as a new ministry, uniquely set up to accompany and serve women, men and couples who are struggling with heal
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Rachel Walters
Jul 235 min read
Waiting with St. Anne: trusting God’s timing in infertility
When I learned that St. Anne and her husband experienced infertility before the birth of our Blessed Mother, it made me realize that God's..
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Sarah Hauer
Mar 195 min read
Abundant life and the friendship of St. Gerard Majella
"I have come so they may have life and have it more abundantly" says Jesus in John 10:10. It is the desire of every human heart, to live an
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Jenna O’Farrell
Mar 133 min read
Learning to love my childless life
I love my childless life. That’s a sentence I never thought I would say! My husband Donovan and I have been trying for a baby for almost...
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thefruitfulhollow
Feb 76 min read
The gift-giver’s guide to care packages
We are Frances and Clare, two sisters and best friends, and care packages are our love language! Frances carries the cross of infertility an
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Faith Downing
Jan 174 min read
Why has God put this desire on my heart if He’s not going to fulfill it?
I invite you to tread this path with me, and to open your heart to ALL the possibilities God has in store for you. We put God in a narrow...
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Brandy Norton
Jan 103 min read
Infertility on screen: part 1
It was movie night. I thought I was sitting down to watch a light-hearted horror movie (Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice). Instead, I had stumbled..
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Erin Kinsella
Jan 34 min read
When the rug gets pulled
Every time we come to a new year, I wonder what it will hold. In the past few years, though, I’ve noticed that my gazes into the future...
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thefruitfulhollow
Nov 29, 20233 min read
35 years on: Pat and Lisa’s story
Lisa and I met and started dating in March of 1985. We have been married for 35 years. We are both cradle Catholics and active in our...
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Victoria
Nov 22, 20234 min read
6 ways to be thankful (even if you’re feeling miserable)
When you're stuck in the muck of the messiness that infertility brings, it is hard to see the light. It may feel like your feet and heart...
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Sonia-Maria Szymanski
Oct 3, 20235 min read
Letters of Encouragement: loneliness in carrying your cross
Dear sister,
It’s a heavy cross, isn’t it? I know it has been hard. I know the mental load you are enduring. I know your pain. I know...
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Kristin D.
Sep 13, 20233 min read
Lectio Divina: "Do not be afraid"
Lectio Divina (aka “divine reading”) is a traditional Church approach to praying with scripture in a personal way. There are a number of...
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Danielle Thompson
Sep 5, 20235 min read
Letters of encouragement: TTC and the 8 year wait
We were in front of the cathedral. It was nearing midnight. The air was crisp, I could see my breath. I was in need of physical healing...
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Mary Thissen
Jun 7, 20233 min read
Letters of encouragement: low self-esteem
How on earth could I worship an all-loving God week after week but believe He made a mistake when He made me? ...
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