Infertility breaks your heart in places you didn’t know could crack. It’s the quiet disappointment after each cycle, the sadness that shows up in moments that were supposed to feel happy, and the way it creeps into your thoughts when you least expect it. If you’re reading this, you already know the pain. What you may not know is how much your mental health matters while you carry this cross.

Nearly 10 years later, I still think about that version of myself that had to sit there and begin to process the reality of my complete infertility. There is still a part of me that has been frozen, stuck in that doctor’s office. And I avoided that 19 year-old as much as I could over the near decade. My fertility was gone and, with it, my worth. Or, at least that’s the lie I told myself.

I sat down to write a piece on Easter Sunday and inevitably I am brought first to Good Friday. For just as Venerable Fulton Sheen wrote, “Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday,” without the painful cross of infertility, our family would not be the miracle that it is. My womb never bore children, I remain infertile almost eight years after my husband and I said “I do”. This might look like an abject failure, like the absence of a miracle, bu

As we begin Advent and prepare for the coming of Jesus, I wanted to share about the power in His holy name. I had intentions of finding...

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...

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

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

Sisters, have you ever felt anxiety over a situation beyond your control? Believed that you could never be loved because of what was...

“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...

Trigger warning: This blog addresses sexual abuse.

"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 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...

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...

Bacon and chocolate, salt and caramel, ice cream and french fries, and a friendship between an infertile woman and a woman with two surprise

“He’s God of the hills and valleys.” (Tauren Wells) While listening to the Sunday readings one day (Luke 17:5-10… faith the size of a musta

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..

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...

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