Healing After Miscarriage (with Karen Edmisten)

Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

Danielle Bean

Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

My guest this week is Karen Edmisten, my dear friend and colleague for many years, writing together and sharing about Catholic family life and homeschooling online. One of Karen’s multiple published books is After Miscarriage: A Catholic Woman’s Companion to Healing and Hope. Karen and I share a conversation about a Catholic approach to miscarriage, and she shares from her own experiences of multiple losses. Why is this a rare conversation in the Church today? What are there so few resources available to support women through the grief of miscarriage? We also discuss family size and some of the ways women might tend to compare themselves to others or judge people based on family size. We talk about ways we can avoid hurting ourselves and others in these ways. Snippet From the Show "Although there was great suffering in these losses, there was also incredible growth in my faith and in my relationship with God." For episode shownotes, text GIRLFRIENDS to 33-777 or visit www.ascensionpress.com/girlfriends.

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0:00.0	Girlfriends, episode number 234, Healing After Miscarriage with Karen Edmiston.
0:06.9	Hello and welcome to Girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom and I'm on a mission to
0:12.9	help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy in family living.
0:18.5	This week we are talking to my friend and fellow author Karen Edmiston
0:22.3	on the topic of miscarriage, infertility, smaller family sizes. I can't wait to share this important
0:28.6	conversation with you. Let's get going. Hey, girlfriends, how are you? Welcome to the newest
0:35.3	episode of the Girlfriendfriends Podcast. Greetings from the
0:38.3	Tiki Hut. It's been a while since I recorded from here. Those of you who are new to the podcast, welcome.
0:43.4	Glad you are joining us. If it's your first time here, I hope you're going to enjoy the time that we
0:47.2	spend together here at Girlfriends and want to come back and be a part of our community. If you've joined us here before, perhaps you've heard me talk about the Tiki Hut. So the Tiki Hut for those who don't know is a structure on our
0:59.7	property, a building that Dan built for me years ago. I won't say how many. Okay, it was eight years ago
1:04.9	for my 40th birthday. And we were planning a family party and he decided he wanted to have a teaky hut. And you know what?
1:12.8	That sounds like a small thing, but this is no small thing. It's a wonderful summer place for us to hang out.
1:18.4	It has a bar. It's got a roof on it. It's got open sides on two ends. It's got bamboo in here.
1:24.7	It's really a very beautiful and peaceful place to sit and record the podcast in the
1:29.4	summer months in the spring and the fall too as well a little bit. But also it's a wonderful place
1:33.9	to come and pray I have discovered. And I've been spending time here as well as on our pool deck this
1:39.4	summer, just really finding quiet time to pray. And that inspired me this morning when I was in my prayer time,
1:47.9	I thought to myself, I need to check in with the girlfriends because I knew I'd be recording today
1:51.6	with, are you making time for prayer in your life? So sometimes we like to do these regular check-ins
1:58.5	about getting physical activity, about taking care of yourself, about eating well.
2:03.7	But I want to check in with you today about your spiritual health.
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