We understand that Mothers’ Day can be difficult for couples experiencing infertility, loss, or any hard road to growing their family...

Perhaps your sister, daughter or friend has shared with you that she and her husband are going through infertility and you want to know...

The dead blooms of last year clung right beside the new buds which brimmed with possibility for the spring ahead. I did not see the roses...

Our priest talked about how sin results in death – a moral death and existential death. Moral death in a person causes confusion, and the..

The side effects from medications and then feeling like an experiment at times would just become too much. I remember crying when an...

There have been so many times in the depths of my grief when I felt as if I, too, was hanging on to that single thread. After my losses...

As we begin Lent, I find myself being led to this moving icon of Christ by one favorite Dominican, Blessed Fra Angelico. Art has always...

Is there anything that more closely resembles the journey of infertility than the season of Lent? 40 long days alone in the desert, being...

On 21st January 2022, The Fruitful Hollow turned 2, and this piece today is our 100th blog post! If you’d like to read about how this...

This blog post is adapted from a talk given at a retreat evening for women experiencing infertility and loss.

“Where are you, God?” It’s a question I imagine Joseph might have prayed in the interior of His heart as He learnt the news of Mary...

“Happy is the man who does not lose faith in me” (Matthew 11:6) but it is hard not to lose faith. In the darke

“Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour of night when the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not let..

It is a surreal feeling to have your worst fear come true. From the time I was a little girl, all I wanted when I grew up was to be a wife..

Our intention with this blog post is to address some of the common obstacles women face when discerning whether to begin a group or thinking

So, fear not sister. In those places of littleness and longing and emptiness, press into TRUST. And please know that in the remaining days..

Excuse me, what? Does my uterus know I’m Catholic? Despite years of painful periods and a late endometriosis diagnosis, I never once...

Why use affirmations? Affirmations are positive statements, phrases or sentences which can be repeated often to counteract negative thoughts

If receiving the news that a friend or family member is pregnant has been a particularly difficult part of your infertility journey, then...

I don’t know where else to go but Calvary. The place where redemptive suffering consumes every broken heart that God has ever and will ...