Dear Lord, I find myself plagued with a deep-rooted desire I am unable to quench. Only Your strength can heal this wound...

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 ..

Successful, in the sense that four beautiful human lives were created. Unsuccessful in the sense that no babies were born.

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..

I had an almost paralyzing fear about being pregnant again. This was something I desperately wanted, yet wanted to run away from. ...

The Fruitful Hollow has been a beacon of hope and understanding for many of us carrying the cross of infertility, encouraging us to be...

“I’m going to be honest with you because someone needs to be. At your current weight, you have no business trying to conceive”. I steady...

Helping your spouse help you! Infertility can be full of stressful situations: your monthly cycle, medical appointments, pregnancies of...

"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

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...

If you’ve ever fasted during Lent, then you will probably have heard about fasting as a means of spiritual discipline. And rightly so!...

We are Frances and Clare, two sisters and best friends, and care packages are our love language! Frances carries the cross of infertility an

The first of our 2024 virtual gatherings for the Fruitful Hollow community is a group rosary meditating on the Holy Name of Jesus on...

On 21st January 2024, The Fruitful Hollow turned 3! If you’d like to read about how this ministry came about, click here to read our first..

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...

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..

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...

Society wants us to believe that a marriage is only fruitful when children come from it. If that were the case, what would be the purpose...

If you find yourself lamenting that so many Christmas traditions seem to revolve around children, we want you to know that that doesn’t...

On a recent morning, I was in the throes of PMS (sometimes this verges on its more severe form, PMDD). I was tired after a restless night...