I know that when we are faced with grief and suffering in this Valley of Tears, it can be challenging to our faith. Our foundation is shaken, prayer feels hard, and God seems far away.
I understand this feeling first hand. In my own suffering and grief, I experienced trauma. I lost relationships. I felt ashamed. I wanted to hide my broken heart away from God, afraid that He was not trustworthy with my pain. I thought I had to get myself together and learn how to grieve "right" to be able to find comfort in my faith.
But I didn't have to figure it out or grieve the right way. I just needed to offer my messy faith and broken heart to God and ask Him for help and hope.
Learning to lean into the goodness, truth, and beauty that our Catholic faith has to offer helped me to do that, and now as a Catholic grief coach, I help others do this, too.
Because healing happens in community
Our online community is a place where you can join other bereaved Catholics for discussions, prayer, workshops, book club, and more. Lean into your faith as you find the support you need to heal from the pain of loss. You are not alone!
Add tools to your grieving toolbox
My online courses and healing retreats are designed to give you practical and healing tools for your grief toolbox. Using scriptures, saints, coaching, and creativity you'll find helpful information and resources to meet you on your healing journey and offer you useful ways to find healing in your heart and mind.
Go deeper into healing
As a certified Catholic coach, I have practical tools to help you work through your grief. My unique grief coaching program offers practical tools to address the many different areas that grief affects our lives, incorporating creativity, journaling, prayer, and more for a holistic approach to moving through the grieving process.
- Sonja Corbitt, Catholic "Evangelista"
My apostolate is under her patronage. Our Blessed Mother has walked the path of grief and sorrow before us with faith, hope, and love, and desires to give us the graces to do the same.
"I would recommend Eileen Tully’s Present in the Pain apostolate and retreat to any pastors who are looking to offer an incredible gift of compassion and healing to the countless unknown women in their parish who are silently suffering from loss of a child."
"After losing my [adult] daughter unexpectedly, my grief seems unending and unbearable. Eileen offered expertise, compassion, and many tools to help and heal the pain... I highly recommend any future retreats Eileen may offer. You won't regret it!"
After I lost my unborn daughter and experienced a life-threatening stillbirth, Eileen’s prayer book helped me to unite my seemingly unbearable pain with the suffering experienced by Our Lady. Her simple meditations on Our Lady’s sorrows are infused with profound understanding. Eileen offers all grieving parents a tool to rekindle hope and experience healing.
After I lost my son, I knew that getting pregnant again would be an important part of the healing process. However, what I did not realize was how stressful pregnancy after loss can be. I was filled with so many emotions (grief, fear and even a little bit of hope). I knew God was not responsible for my loss, but my trust in Him was weak. I needed someone to turn to who would understand what I was going through as well as guide me in my Catholic faith. Drawing on her personal experience, knowledge of the Catholic faith and expertise in coaching, Eileen was the perfect person to assist me in this. Eileen and I worked together one on one for several weeks in the middle of my pregnancy. During this time, I not only felt reassured that what I was feeling was “normal,” but I learned to trust God a little more and surrender my pregnancy to Him. Thank you Eileen. I could not have done this without you!
Eileen was the answer to my prayers! I am 12 years into my grief journey. I always wanted to find a platform that connected my grief of losing my baby with my Catholic Faith. And I stumbled upon her Ministry and I’m so grateful! The way she explains things made so much sense. So much of what I was thinking and feeling, I didn’t have words for, but listening to the podcast and attending her online retreat and the [in-person] retreat this past weekend, words connected with my feelings and I felt validated. Thank you Eileen for [your] voice! It helps those of us who can’t find the words!!
It was so amazing. I am not artistic at all, but just sitting with Jesus guiding my hand was so powerful. Sitting there with a pencil allowed me to see in a different way. Maybe this [art workshop] is a part of my prayer life I am missing. I can't thank you enough.
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