Welcome to the relaunch of the Present in the Pain Podcast for 2024!Today I talk with fellow Catholic Mindset Coach, Emily Adams, about how we can manage our expectations of ourselves and others, both in grief and in other aspects of our lives.You can learn more about Emily by clicking here.Find out more about Eileen by clicking here.Find journaling pages, group coaching, and live discussion about expectations (and each month's theme) inside Eileen's new VIP Community. You can find more information about it here.Find the support and understanding that you need to heal. Visit EileenTully.com and click on Community. Please subscribe and leave a review. This helps others to find the podcast!Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Learn more about Eileen and her apostolate at EileenTully.comDiscuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain Community or find information there about her new VIP Community for healing and personal growth.Check out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Buy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

In this episode, I talk to Whitney Whitmore, co-founder of Lily of the Valley Catholic Ministry, about the way she has used her experience of loss to help other women.Whitney experienced the death of her son, Colin, following a life-limiting diagnosis, and her experience brought her into the Catholic faith and introduced her to the Blessed Mother.  She also drew close to St. Gianna Molla, who is the patron Saint of her ministry.  Together with another mother who received a diagnosis of Down Syndrome for her daughter in utero, they formed Lily of the Valley to offer prayer and support for mothers who experience difficult pregnancies or loss.You can find more information about Lily of the Valley here.Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

This podcast is the next in my series of interviews with women who have experienced child loss and used that experience to create something to help others through this unique suffering.Eileen interviews Kelly Breaux, founder of Red Bird Ministries, about her own experiences of loss and the way it challenged her faith. Kelly shares the places where Red Bird Ministries seeks to overcome some of the deficits that the church has in meeting the needs of families suffering from pregnancy and child loss.Currently seeking sponsors for the Present in the Pain Podcast. If you have a product or ministry designed for mothers who have experienced pregnancy or child loss, and would like to sponsor this podcast for $4/month in exchange for an ad spot, please contact Eileen. Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

I'm joined today by Emily Adams, a Catholic Mindset Coach with Metanoia Catholic and a mother of ten - four on earth and six in heaven.Emily understands the grief and pain of loss and talks about how coaching helped her to shift the thoughts she was having  surrounding her loss. Doing this simple but powerful work of examining her thoughts and processing her emotions enabled her to find hope instead of feeling stuck.Emily will be back to join me for my upcoming course called Navigating NFP After Child Loss, where she will be sharing some of these tools with us in my free online community.You can find out more about Emily through her website, TheLittleSouls.com, or through her page on Metanoia Catholic.Find the support and understanding that you need to heal. Visit EileenTully.com and click on Community.Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

Eileen shares the many things that are going on this summer inside her online community, including:A Temperaments Workshop: Who You Are is How You GrieveThe next group cohort for her online retreat that includes several exciting new resourcesA mini course about NFP after lossYou won't want to miss this episode to learn how to join these events and gain valuable tools for healing from your own experience of pregnancy or child loss.Click here to join the FREE Online CommunityClick here to learn more about the Online Video RetreatClick here to sign up for her mailing listSupport the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

In this final episode of the Seven Sorrows of St. Joseph series, Eileen and her husband Patrick discuss what it is about this sorrow that makes it feel the most relatable to us as parents who have lost children.We refer to the following two books in this episode:Befriending St. Joseph: Finding Faith, Hope, and Courage in the Seven Sorrows Devotion by Deacon Greg KandraConsecration to St. Joseph by Fr. Donald CallowayJoin my upcoming Temperaments Workshop: Who You Are is How You GrieveSupport the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

In this episode, Eileen and Patrick take a look at the sixth sorrow of St. Joseph - returning from Egypt after the death of Herod.We talk about the courage it takes to keep trusting God over and over again, to continue to submit ourselves to His will when we don't know what the outcome will be. What an example St. Joseph is to us!We mention both the book we have been using throughout this series - Befriending St. Joseph: Finding Faith, Hope, and Courage in the Seven Sorrows Devotion - and the beautiful Consecration to St. Joseph book.Find the support and understanding that you need to heal. Visit EileenTully.com and click on Community.Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

Eileen and Patrick discuss St. Joseph's fifth sorrow: the flight to Egypt.What must it have been like for St. Joseph to receive this message in a dream? What sort of faith and courage did it take for him to pack up his family, not knowing where they'd go, or for how long, and follow this path to Egypt? And what can we learn from his example in this sorrow?Join us as we reflect on this sorrow using Deacon Greg Kandra's book, Befriending St. Joseph: Finding Faith, Hope, and Courage in the Seven Sorrows Devotion.Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

In this week's podcast episode Eileen and Patrick discuss the fourth sorrow of St. Joseph: hearing the prophecy of Simeon.We talk about the way this event seems to pull the rug out from underneath both Joseph and Mary as they enter the temple with joy and leave with sorrow.Join us as we unpack this sorrow and relate it to our own experience of child loss.Once again, the book that we are drawing from to meditate on these sorrows is called Befriending St. Joseph: Finding Faith, Hope, and Courage in the Seven Sorrows Devotion.Find more information and register for my next Online Group Retreat for grieving mothers by clicking here. Find the support and understanding that you need to heal. Visit EileenTully.com and click on Community.Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

This week's podcast episode reflects on the third sorrow of St. Joseph: witnessing the circumcision of Jesus. Every parent knows how painful it can be to witness our child suffering, and sometimes we can be left wondering why God would allow this to happen.Join my husband, Patrick, and me as we unpack this sorrow and relate it to the loss of our children.Once again, the book that we are drawing from to meditate on these sorrows is called Befriending St. Joseph: Finding Faith, Hope, and Courage in the Seven Sorrows Devotion.Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

Eileen and Patrick are back this week to discuss the second sorrow of St. Joseph, which was his pain at not being able to provide accommodations for his family in Bethlehem and seeing Jesus born into the poverty and squalor of a stable.Patrick is hoping to help grieving fathers to place themselves in Joseph's place in these sorrows and to emulate his example in their own experiences of sorrow from the pain of child loss.Once again, the book that we're using to help us do that is called Befriending St. Joseph: Finding Faith, Hope, and Courage in the Seven Sorrows Devotion by Deacon Greg Kandra. Please subscribe or leave a review to help other bereaved parents to find this podcast!Find the support and understanding that you need to heal. Visit EileenTully.com and click on Community.Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

This is the first episode in a new podcast series on the Seven Sorrows of St. Joseph that I'm recording with my husband, Patrick.  Together, we'll talk about the experience of losing a child from the perspective of a father, and how men and women grieve differently.Because St. Joseph is the silent Saint, and we can't read his words, we really need to look to his example to us in scripture, and the book that we're using to help us do that is called Befriending St. Joseph: Finding Faith, Hope, and Courage in the Seven Sorrows Devotion by Deacon Greg Kandra. This week, we are looking at the first sorrow - Joseph's decision to divorce Mary and drawing on what he must have been feeling so that we can emulate him in our own experiences of sorrow.Please subscribe and leave a review to help other bereaved parents find this podcast!Find the support and understanding that you need to heal. Visit EileenTully.com and click on Community.Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

In this episode, Eileen prays the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows, reading the meditations for each sorrow that she has written in her prayer book, Praying with Our Lady of Sorrows: meditations for grieving mothers.With minimal other commentary, this is an episode that you can return to again and again to pray through this beautiful chaplet whenever you'd like to.Use it with Eileen's new Lenten Journal, The Sorrowful Way to reflect on Our Lady's sorrows all throughout Lent.Find the support and understanding that you need to heal. Visit EileenTully.com and click on Community.Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

This episode is the first in a series of conversations I am having with other mothers who have experienced child loss. Author of The Woman in the Trees, a historical novel about America's first approved Marian apparition, Theoni Bell sits down with me to discuss her faith, her own experience of loss, and what she has been doing to help other families with the healing process.Find more information about Theoni and her work at theonibell.comFind the support and understanding that you need to heal. Visit EileenTully.com and click on Community.Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

In this final episode of the Breath of Heaven series, Eileen talks about the sanctifying grace given to us by the Holy Spirit and how the gifts given to us at our Confirmation serve to make us holy.She reads parts of  this article that explains the gifts of the Spirit.She also shares from the Baltimore Catechism, Book No. 2. Come join the New Year Group Retreat and start 2023 with the support and tools you need to heal from the pain of child loss. It's only $39 through the end of January!Find the support and understanding that you need to heal. Visit EileenTully.com and click on Community.Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

When we are suffering, we can be tempted to the darkness of despair.  Sometimes our faith is tested and challenged, and it is the Holy Spirit who can bring the light of truth to this dark time.Have you found yourself in a season of spiritual darkness after the loss of your child? You are not alone!In this episode, I share two quotes that I have taken from readings in a beautiful devotional called Divine Intimacy. Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

In this, the second episode of this series on the Holy Spirit, Eileen discusses why it was beneficial to us that Jesus sent us the Holy Spirit after he went away. The way that the Holy Spirit is able to be with us since Pentecost is different from the way the Spirit aided the prophets of the Old Testament. Now He indwells us and is always with us, reminding us about the glory that awaits us beyond this valley of tears.Find the support and understanding that you need to heal. Visit EileenTully.com and click on Community.Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

Why is the Holy Spirit called the Breath of Heaven?What role does the Holy Spirit play in our suffering? How does He hold us together when we feel like we are shattered from the grief and pain of losing our child?In this episode, Eileen talks about the Holy Spirit as the Ruach that was hovering over the waters in the beginning of Genesis, how He was breathed on the disciples by Jesus, and how we now receive His indwelling during our Confirmation and the gifts we need to enable us to carry out the calling that God has for each one of us to make us like Jesus, even when we are brought through the Way of the Cross.You can read more about St. Felicitas of Rome and her seven sons here, where she says, “Do not think to frighten me by threats, or to win me by fair speeches. The spirit of God within me will not suffer me to be overcome by Satan, and will make me victorious over all your assaults.”Find the support and understanding that you need to heal. Visit EileenTully.com and click on Community.Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

In this, the last episode of the series, Eileen discusses the seventh sword of sorrow - the burial of Jesus. She discusses how the burial of her own daughter created an emptiness, or an "undoing" in her, but that this provided an opportunity for her to join with Mary's Fiat and Jesus' prayer in Gethsemane, offering "whatever God wants."Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

In this episode, Eileen discusses the sixth sword of sorrow that Our Lady endured - receiving the body of her Son from the cross.  Eileen shares her own "pieta moment" and talks about resigning ourselves to the will of God.Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

In this episode, we discuss the fifth sword of sorrow - the death of Jesus. We  unpack the ways that the theological virtues are demonstrated by Our Lady as she bore witness to this suffering, and how they can be an example to us in our own experience of child loss.Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

In this episode, Eileen discusses the fourth sorrow of Mary - meeting Jesus on His way to Calvary. As we may know from our own experience, accompanying others in their sufferings causes us suffering as well, and the more we love the person, the more pain it causes us. Join us to talk about this episode in the Present in the Pain Community.Learn more about Eileen's In-Person retreats and her online video retreat.Buy Eileen's book, Praying With Our Lady of Sorrows: Meditations for grieving mothersFind out more about Eileen and her apostolate ministry for grieving mothers at EileenTully.comEileen is an Amazon affiliate and may earn a commission on items purchased through the affiliate links above.Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

In this episode, Eileen discusses the third sorrow of Mary - the loss of Jesus in Jerusalem - and how it relates to our own experiences of suffering. Whether our consolations have been stripped away from us, or we are wrestling with unanswered "whys" - or both - we can look to the example of Our Lady in this sword of suffering and follow her example.Eileen mentions St. Alphonsus Liguori's book, The Glories of Mary, which is an amazing resource that contains the saint's beautiful reflections on the Blessed Mother.Eileen's own prayer book, Praying With Our Lady of Sorrows: Meditations for grieving mothers, helps grieving mothers to unite their suffering with those of Our Lady by leading the reader through the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows.Join the podcast discussion within the Present in the Pain Community. You'll also find there the link for our book club, discussing C.S. Lewis' book, A Grief Observed.Find out about Eileen's upcoming in-person retreats by clicking here, or click here to go deeper with her Online Video Retreat.Learn more about Eileen and her ministry for grieving mothers at EileenTully.comEileen is an Amazon affiliate and may earn a small commission on items purchased through the affiliate links above.Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

In this episode, Eileen discusses the second sorrow of Mary - the flight to Egypt - and how it relates to our own experiences of suffering and need to trust God in the midst of our personal wildernesses.Eileen mentions Deacon Greg Kandra's book, Befriending St. Joseph: Finding Faith, Hope, and Courage in the Seven Sorrows Devotion, which is a beautiful resource for husbands.Her own prayer book, Praying With Our Lady of Sorrows: Meditations for grieving mothers, helps grieving mothers to unite their suffering with those of Our Lady by leading the reader through the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows.Join the podcast discussion within the Present in the Pain Community or click here to go deeper with her Online Video Retreat.Learn more about Eileen and her ministry for grieving mothers at EileenTully.comEileen is an Amazon affiliate and may earn a small commission on items purchased through the affiliate links above.Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

In this episode, Eileen shares the development of her own relationship with Mary, the Blessed Mother, and how she came to know her under the title of Our Lady of Sorrows.She unpacks the promises Our Lady gives for meditating on her sorrows and the spiritual benefits of doing so - for grieving mothers and for anyone who is suffering.  She also discusses the first sorrow of Mary - the prophecy of Simeon.Eileen mentions St. Alphonsus Liguori's beautiful book, The Glories of Mary (affiliate link), in this episode.Her own prayer book, Praying with Our Lady of Sorrows: Meditations for grieving mothers, can be found here: https://amzn.to/3RKIga4Her online video retreat for grieving mothers is found within her online community and is available at 15% off with coupon code OLS2022 until September 15th. Find out more and join the retreat here: https://present-in-the-pain-community.circle.so/c/present-in-the-pain/about-the-retreat-communityJoin the online community and the upcoming book discussion of C.S. Lewis' A Grief Observed (affiliate link)  by clicking here: https://present-in-the-pain-community.circle.soFinally, you can learn more about Eileen and her ministry for grieving mothers at https://eileentully.comFind the support and understanding that you need to heal. Visit EileenTully.com and click on Community.Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

In this episode, Eileen discusses the changes that can happen to our relationships after the loss of our child. Changes happen in our relationships with ourselves as we have this experience not knowing what we need or how to navigate our newly-limited capacity for things we once did. They happen in our relationship with God as we may find it hard to pray and to trust Him to meet our needs. And finally, they happen with other people, and this can be yet another secondary loss we need to grieve as dynamics change with our changing needs.St. Paul tells us to "Rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep." (Romans 12:15), but not everyone is capable of doing the latter with us. It is very difficult to sit with people in their pain, but it is truly needed, and a real act of love.Have you found that your relationships have changed following the loss of your child? Come over to the Present in the Pain Community and share your story with us! You can discuss this and all the other podcast episodes, and find understanding and support.  In the Private Retreat Community, you'll find Eileen's online video retreat to go deeper into all of the topics discussed in the podcast.If you're struggling with prayer, Eileen's prayer book was written especially for grieving mothers. You can find it on Amazon here.Find Eileen's website at EileenTully.com and sign up for her mailing list to learn about new podcast episodes, events, and retreats for grieving mothers by clicking here.This is the last episode in the Grief is Complex series. After a short break, Eileen will return with a series on Our Lady of Sorrows.Find the support and understanding that you need to heal. Visit EileenTully.com and click on Community.Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

In this episode, Eileen discusses secondary losses - those other things we lose besides the person of our child - and how they can add to the complexity of our grieving.Find Eileen's "In the Raw" series of blog posts and other helpful information on her website,  EileenTully.com   The post about the subjunctive mentioned in this podcast is found here.Join the Present in the Pain Community to discuss podcast episodes, share your own experiences, and find support by clicking here.  You can also go deeper into your healing experience by joining the Private Retreat Community found within that space.Click here to join Eileen's weekly mailing list to stay informed about upcoming events, discounts, resources, and more.Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

In this episode, Eileen talks with Catholic therapist, Lauren Accolla, about grief and trauma.  You can find more information about Lauren at https://linktr.ee/yourfaithfultherapistLauren mentions how helpful it is to our healing when we find a support group of other people who understand the grieving process. That is exactly why Eileen has created her parish retreats and the Present in the Pain Community. You can find connection and support, discuss podcast episodes, ask for prayer, and share your experience with others who understand. Join it here:  https://present-in-the-pain-community.circle.soYou can find more information about Eileen and her ministry for grieving mothers at EileenTully.comIf this podcast is helpful to you, please subscribe and leave a rating. This will help others to find it, too.Find the support and understanding that you need to heal. Visit EileenTully.com and click on Community.Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

In this episode, Eileen discusses the ways that understanding that grieving the loss of a child can be more intense and can last longer than other kinds of grief can help us to grieve with hope. When we recognize that there is no timeline to our grieving process, and don't take on the expectations of others for where we "should" be in our healing process, we can be gentle with ourselves and allow ourselves the time we need to heal.Eileen discusses the five remedies for pain and sorrow that St. Thomas Aquinas discusses in the First Part of the Second Part of the Summa Theologica.  If you are looking for accompaniment in your healing from the pain of child loss, you can join Eileen's online community - The Present in the Pain Community - at https://present-in-the-pain-community.circle.so . It is free to join and you can find places to share your story, ask for prayer, and discuss the podcast with other grieving mothers.Here, you will also find Eileen's online retreat for grieving mothers, a healing video series with private, members-only group discussion and bi-weekly live video chats.  You can join this retreat space for the special introductory rate until July 31, 2022!You can learn more about Eileen, her ministry for grieving mothers, and the helpful resources she offers by visiting EileenTully.com.Find the support and understanding that you need to heal. Visit EileenTully.com and click on Community.Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

In this, the first episode of a series on the complexity of grief, Eileen tells her own story of child loss. She shares a quote from St. Augustine and explains how understanding what to expect in grief is an important step in learning how to grieve with hope. Knowing we're not alone in what we're experiencing is so helpful to our healing.Click here to visit Eileen's website and learn more about her ministry for grieving mothers.Click here to see the new Present in the Pain Community to connect with others who are grieving and find support in the healing process.Support the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.

This is the introductory episode and in it, Eileen shares a little of her own story of child loss and talks about why she chose the name Present in the Pain for her ministry. She knows that the experience of child loss can feel isolating, but if it has happened to you, she hopes to help you to feel understood by unpacking the many ways that it affects our lives so that you to know you're not alone.You can learn more about Eileen and her ministry for grieving mothers - which includes healing retreats and helpful resources - by visiting her website, EileenTully.comSupport the showBecome a Supporter of the Show and receive a shoutout and a special gift from me!Discuss this episode and find support for pregnancy and child loss in the FREE online Present in the Pain CommunityLearn more about Eileen and her ministry at EileenTully.comCheck out Eileen's online retreat, offering helpful tools for healing from the pain of pregnancy and child loss.Learn about Taking Flight, Eileen's new workshop series on healing and personal growth to discern what lies beyond your sorrow.Check out Eileen't mini-course, Navigating NFP After Child LossBuy Eileen's book, Praying with Our Lady of SorrowsAs an Amazon affiliate, Eileen earns a small commission from items purchased using the affiliate links she shares.