Encouragement

Mary Thissen

Nov 133 min read

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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Vulnerability is hard: telling a partner about infertility

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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Judith’s call to action: being fruitful where God places you

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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Holding space for the joy that infertility stole

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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The Night is Dark: a reflection on The Letters

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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Waiting with St. Anne: trusting God’s timing in infertility

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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Abundant life and the friendship of St. Gerard Majella

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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Why has God put this desire on my heart if He’s not going to fulfill it?

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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6 ways to be thankful (even if you’re feeling miserable)

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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Letters of Encouragement: loneliness in carrying your cross

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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Letters of encouragement: TTC and the 8 year wait

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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Letters of encouragement: low self-esteem

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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