Present in the Pain Podcast
Looking at the experience of pregnancy and child loss through the lens of the Catholic faith, Eileen Tully offers lessons from Scriptures and Saints, real talk about grief and trauma, and practical tools for healing from the heartache of miscarriage, stillbirth, or the death of a child of any age.
Episodes
37 episodes
Healing in Body, Mind, and Spirit with Belinda Terro Mooney
In this episode, Eileen talks with Belinda Terro Mooney about the healing process and how trauma can complicate our healing. They discuss therapeutic techniques that are helpful for healing trauma, including EMDR and physical movement.B...
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Surrender is Rooted in Relationship - with Elizabeth Leon
Eileen speaks with Elizabeth Leon about what it means to surrender to God. Elizabeth shares that there are three elements to surrendering: knowing who God is, knowing who we are, and understanding that there is purpose to our suffering....
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How Shame Affects our Rest - with Karla Fitz
Eileen talks to "The Catholic Life Coach," Karla Fitz about why rest can be so challenging for us.They discuss how shame, judgment, perfectionism, and the "shoulds" we have for ourselves can keep us from finding true rest. Karla offers ...
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Rest Can Help us Find Healing - with Sonja Corbitt
Eileen talks to the "Bible Study Evangelista," Sonja Corbitt, to discuss rest. They talk about the ways that their conversions to Catholicism helped them to properly understand rest, how rest leads to healing, why rest is part of our worship, a...
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Cultivating a Habit of Prayer with Kylie Hein
Kylie Hein is a Catholic Mindset Coach who works with performance-driven women.Kylie and Eileen discuss prayer and how to go about creating a more regular habit of praying if you, like Eileen, tend to be someone who goes through seasons...
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Let's Talk about Marriage - with Mary and Jerry Lenaburg
Mary and Jerry Lenaburg have been married for 35 years. Together they've faced addiction, deployment, child loss, parent loss, and so much more. But they are an inspiration in the ways that they have been able to grow deeper in relationship eve...
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Managing our Expectations
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 ou...
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A Conversation with Whitney Whitmore of Lily of the Valley Catholic Ministry
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-lim...
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A Conversation with Red Bird Ministries Founder, Kelly Breaux
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
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Mindset Matters: An interview with Emily Adams
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 tho...
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What's Happening this Summer?
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 exc...
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The Seventh Sorrow of St. Joseph
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...
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The Sixth Sorrow of St. Joseph
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 ourselv...
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The Fifth Sorrow of St. Joseph
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 knowi...
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The Fourth Sorrow of St. Joseph
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 ...
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The Third Sorrow of St. Joseph
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 ...
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The Second Sorrow of St. Joseph
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....
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The First Sorrow of St. Joseph
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 an...
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The Rosary of the Seven Sorrows
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 mot...
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A Conversation with Theoni Bell
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 appr...
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Breath of Heaven - Ep. 4 Pour Over Me Your Holiness
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
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Breath of Heaven - Ep. 3 Lighten my Darkness
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...
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Breath of Heaven - Ep. 2 Be Forever Near Me
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 f...
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Breath of Heaven - Ep. 1 Hold me Together
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...
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Our Lady of Sorrows Series - The Seventh Sword of Sorrow: The Burial of Jesus
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 fo...
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