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Miscarriage: Grief and Grace by Lauren Accolla
Lauren Accolla is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Denver, Colorado. She works with children, adolescents, families, and couples. She works for a group practice that primarily works with people of the Christian faith. Lauren is Catholic herself, and loves being able to integrate the faith with therapy. She lives in Denver with her husband and daughter, and is blessed with many extended family members nearby. Her passion is to reduce mental health stigma, while revealing that the Christian faith is not in opposition to psychology and the human mind. She founded Your Faithful Therapist for this purpose, and loves creating content for her social media community.
After a C Section by Emily Frase
Emily Frase is a south Louisiana native living in northern Virginia with her husband and two cherubs. After receiving her bachelor's degree in architecture, she went on to work in the nonprofit world in DC for five years. She founded the blog totalwhine.com in 2018, where she shares her deep passion for living all aspects of the Catholic faith in a joyful and honest way, especially marriage, motherhood, NFP and fertility awareness. She is the co-founder and president of the nonprofit organization FAbM Base, a new fertility awareness database coming soon. She has been featured in FemCatholic, Theology of Home, Vigil Magazine, Letters to Women podcast, and The St. Philip Institute.
Quit the Labels by Martina Bohnslav
Martina is a Catholic wife, mother, lazy blogger, and business owner. Raising and homeschooling her 4 little ones in historic Virginia. A self proclaimed "wanna be minimalist with a hotmess life" - she shares her love for novenas with her daily LIVE prayers on instagram. Hoping to spread solidarity and inspiration, as she makes it through the joyful yet messy trenches of motherhood one day at a time. Join her daily at 1pm EST for her daily novena reading, and on Fridays as she highlights other women who bring joy to the gram. #joyfilledfriday @martinabohnslav
My Journey From a Nurse Practitioner to SAHM by Alex Derose
Alex DeRose is a Nurse Practitioner & Fertility Educator turned SAHM homeschooling mom of four sons. She’s passionate about helping mothers choose joy for the season of life they're in and shares encouragement through her blog writing on joymamablog.com and her #gramforgood movement @alexandriaderose.
What Happens When Your Birth Plan Does Not Go According to Plan? by Sabrina Wujek
Sabrina Wujek is a wife and new mama of their 6 month old baby boy. Her Catholic faith led her to create her own business, Eardrop Co where she sells handmade earrings based on the flowers of the Marian Garden. A portion of all proceeds each month are donated to different charities. Sabrina also works from home full time as an architect for a firm specializing in Healthcare. Say hello @eardropco or eardropco.com.
An Experience of Loss in Motherhood by Brya Hanan
Brya Hanan is a Catholic wife, mother, and Licensed Marriage and family therapist. She currently resides in AZ and holds a license in AZ, CA, and MO. Brya is a certified Family Trauma Specialist and is passionate about supporting people understand trauma and heal from it.
Resilience to Change by Cait Winters
Cait Winters is a writer, blogger & aspiring author from Massachusetts. She is a wife and mother of three children (from toddler to teen!) living a small-town life and finding God in the midst of everyday moments. Cait is the founder of the creative community Motherhood Through the Mysteries and her writing covers all things motherhood, womanhood and faith. To read more from Cait visit her blog Prayers Over the Kitchen Sink and follow on Instagram @prayersoverthekitchensink.
The Experience of Therapy by Bridget Buscker
Bridget Busacker is founder of Managing Your Fertility, an online, one-stop shop of Natural Family Planning (NFP) resources for women and couples. She is on a mission to fuse the science of Fertility Awareness Based Methods (FABMs) and Theology of the Body (TOB) into the everyday practice of NFP.
Identity by Lisa Gormley
Lisa Gormley is a licensed professional counselor working at a small private practice outside of Cleveland, Ohio, where she works with clients ages 5+. Although her work has primarily been with a crowd clientele, Lisa is currently training to focus more heavily on perinatal mood disorders and motherhood.
Suffering in the Sleepless Nights of Motherhood by Christine Flynn
Christine Flynn is a wife and mother of four young children. On fire for the Catholic Faith, Christine podcasts and blogs at TheCatholicMama.com about all things Catholicism to help fellow parents feel more sure in their faith and raise confidently Catholic children.