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When promises seem to fail

  Processing disappointment

I have long held a strong theological conviction that pregnancy loss is not God’s will or plan for anyone’s life...

Just when you think it’s all over…

  Where I was in the story

I’m aware that I haven’t written much about miscarriage and infertility here in this space for quite some time now, and that’s because for quite a long time now this story has felt like it was finished, and there’s been nothing...

4 things early pregnancy taught me

  Deeper awareness of my need

“His grace is sufficient for me, His power really is made perfect in my weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9)

One th...

Community vs Connection

Connection vs Community

I’ve been thinking a lot about the concepts of connection & community recently.

They’re terms that are often used interchangeably in our digital culture, ...

a theology of miscarriage

 Why is a theology of miscarriage necessary?

After experiencing a season of recurrent miscarriages myself a few years ago, what quickly became apparent was that although I had grown up with parents who were church leaders and been an active, church-going c...

Fave reads in 2022

Best fiction 

The Dictionary of Lost Words - by Pip Williams

The Midnight Library - by Matt Haig

The Lido - by Libby Page

Best non-fiction

Wintering - The Power of Rest & Retreat in Difficult Times - by Katherine May

One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only...

Dealing with loss at Christmas

 Loss at Christmas-time

Five years ago I suffered my first miscarriage, and it all unfolded over the Christmas season. In fact, it was the very first day of December when I first discovered some early pregnancy bleeding that indicated that I might be misca...

Beyond an outcomes-based faith

There’s an idea that I just can’t see to get away from lately: we need to move away from an outcomes-based faith.

We all tend to hope for certain outcomes in our lives - that job, that marriage, that kind of family, a beautiful home, good health, financial security, and so on…

And there’s nothin...

On feeling unseen

On feeling unseen

I’ve been thinking about the theme of feeling unseen recently, as it’s something I hear over and again from women I talk to and work with in the miscarriage and infertility community. Indeed, it’s something I have felt at times in my own journey at different points too.

In her l...

The Space Inbetween

 About being in-between

As I write this blog, I am in-between.

It’s been exactly three years now, since my last pregnancy and miscarriage. And although for a long time after it happened, I still felt so sure we’d fall pregnant again, we simply haven’t been able to.

Both my husband and I are over...