Finding Joy in Trials and Infertility — with Hannah Marks
Season 2, Episode 21 | Originally aired on September 28, 2020
About the episode
"I never knew what it was like to have my faith tested until we started down the infertility road."
In the midst of Hannah Marks' struggles with miscarriage and infertility, she asked how God could allow such suffering in her life. But God persisted and continued to shower His love over her, and this renewed her love and faith in Him. Hannah's desires for motherhood did not go unanswered. Not only is Hannah the mother of a beautiful girl through adoption, but she also was a spiritual mother to other women who found themselves in similar situations. In this episode, Hannah and I talk about her struggles with infertility, the adoption of her daughter Amelia, and why she's having the hard conversations about infertility.
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Meet Hannah Marks
Hannah Marks is a Catholic wife and mother through adoption. Hannah started her blog, Little Way of Joy, early in 2019 as a way to speak up about infertility from a Catholic perspective. She felt that there was not nearly enough support for infertile couples in the Church and that infertility and miscarriage still carried a huge stigma within the Church. Through talking about her and her husband’s difficult journey to parenthood, Hannah has been able to create friendships with other women who felt as though they, too, were out of place in the Church due to their infertility. She also experienced an increase in her own faith and trust in God from speaking up about the issues that come with struggling to build a family while also being devout in a Church where physical motherhood is touted as the ultimate goal of women. Hannah and her husband live with their baby daughter in South Louisiana. You can follow her on Instagram @joyfulcatholicmomma.