The Fruitful Hollow Resources
Free Resources for Your Journey
​Practical tools to help you navigate infertility, from managing medical appointments and grief to supporting your marriage and discerning your next steps. Download what you need, use what helps.
Navigating the Emotional Rollercoaster
Navigate the emotional highs and lows of trying to conceive. This resource offers practical steps to align your actions with your priorities, limit false hope, and find purpose beyond pregnancy, helping you protect your mental health while leaving room for hope.
Adoption
Discernment
The Fruitful Hollow is an international ministry and can only offer general advice. Adoption requirements and options vary widely depending on your country/state/province/region. It is important to consult resources for your region.
Walk through the adoption discernment process with structured guidance on grieving and healing first, asking the right questions, researching options, and processing your decision as a couple.
Discernment as
a Couple
​When spouses disagree about medical treatments, adoption, or following Church teachings on IVF, discernment becomes even harder. This resource offers practical tools for having constructive conversations that honor both partners' perspectives while staying faithful to Catholic teaching.
Support in
Singleness
Facing a potential infertility diagnosis before marriage brings unique emotional, spiritual, and physical challenges. This resource helps you create a "Support in Singleness" plan for navigating this journey before you've even met your future spouse. You are not alone.
Dive
Right In!
Break free from the medical focus zone, doldrums of despair, or empty routines of infertility. This resource helps you identify where you're stuck and guides you through a "Dive Right In" project to rediscover joy, purpose, and meaning in your journey forward.
Spouse Support
Cheat Sheet
Help your spouse support you through infertility's stressful moments. Create a "support cheat sheet" together to communicate your needs, understand each other's reactions, and navigate cycles, appointments, and waiting with clarity and compassion.
Communicating and
Sharing the Mental Load
Struggling to tell your spouse or loved ones when you're overwhelmed? This resource provides practical tools for honest communication about your limits and how others can support you during infertility.
Processing
Infertility Grief
Infertility grief is the loss of something hoped for, not something held. This resource helps you articulate and process the pain of life deviating from your plans, offering tools to navigate this unique form of loss.
Levels of
Self-Care
Navigate the ups and downs of your infertility journey with a personalized self-care plan. This template helps you identify what you need on any given day, from simple motivation to extra rest or additional support during challenging times.
Discerning the
Next Best Step
Feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or like you're hitting a wall in your infertility journey? This resource offers seven practical steps to help you and your spouse discern where God is calling you next and what change needs to happen.
Thriving in the Holiday Season (even if you don’t feel like celebrating)
Struggling with empty arms during the holidays? When festive celebrations feel like a harsh contrast to your grief, this resource offers practical ways to recenter and find meaning in the season, whether it's your first or tenth year without the children you hoped for.
Preparing for
Surgery
Navigate surgery with confidence using comprehensive checklists and guidance. This resource covers questions for your surgeon, pre-operative preparations, hospital packing lists, spiritual considerations, and building a post-operative support team, with printable planning pages included.
Mothers' Day Challenge:
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness
Struggling with the month surrounding Mothers' Day? Whether you're longing for a child, grieving a loss, or navigating a strained relationship, this "Truth,
Beauty and Goodness" challenge helps you find peace and meaning during a difficult time.
Spring Clean Your Life
(spiritually, emotionally, and physically)
Spring invites renewal beyond closets and windows. This resource helps you clear out what's not serving you well and cultivate what fosters joy, hope, and spiritual growth. Evaluate what's working, release your "emotional winter," and breathe new life into your days.
Preparing Your Heart for
Social Gatherings
Navigate potentially triggering social gatherings with preparation and cognitive strategies. This resource offers practical steps to manage anxiety, respond to difficult comments, and protect your emotional well-being during challenging social situations throughout the year.
Managing Medical Appointments and Navigating NaPro
Minimize the stress of fertility appointments. This resource offers practical strategies to get the most out of medical consultations and NaProTechnology while protecting your emotional wellbeing when outcomes don't meet expectations
or recommended steps feel overwhelming.
Dealing with Pregnancy and Birth Announcements
Navigate the conflicting emotions of joy and sorrow when pregnancy announcements catch you off guard. This resource offers practical steps to process difficult news in healthy ways and avoid getting trapped in negative emotion cycles while honoring both your feelings and others' joy.
Toolbox for
Stressful Times
Build your personalized "Toolbox for Stressful Times" to navigate infertility's challenges. This resource helps you create an action plan with self-care activities and support strategies to manage anxiety and give yourself grace when stress levels rise.
Wielding the Sword of the Spirit:
Fighting Satan's Lies with Scripture
Combat Satan's lies about worthlessness, abandonment, and hopelessness during infertility. This resource equips you to wield Scripture as your spiritual weapon, preparing you for battle with biblical truth that defeats the enemy's deceptions.
Supporting Couples
with Infertility
Wondering how to support loved ones facing infertility? Compassionate support makes a world of difference. This resource offers practical guidance on what to say, what to avoid, and meaningful ways to walk alongside couples during their difficult journey.
Semen Collection the
Catholic Way
Wondering about the morally acceptable way to order a sperm count during infertility evaluation? This resource provides clear Catholic guidance on semen collection methods that align with Church teaching while supporting your diagnostic needs.