Mosaic: Beauty in Every Broken Piece with Kate LeFaivre

Kate LeFaivre
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For Catholic women navigating life after losing a husband — honest conversations about grief, faith, and finding beauty in the broken pieces.

  1. Oct 7

    Reservation for One

    At her son's senior night, Kate was announced as "son of Kate," and nothing else. That moment opens a conversation about the everyday places where life is built for two: forms with lines for both parents, planning a family trip alone, a table where everyone else gets up to dance, and a Christmas stocking tradition that now ends in a quiet room. Kate shares what she told her son, what she's learned, and a short prayer.

  2. Sep 30

    The Backyard He Built

    Tom built an elaborate backyard — bridges, a waterfall, koi, paths under the trees. After he died, Kate stopped going back there. This episode is the story of what she found when she finally returned, what she misses most about Tom in that space, and the honest truth seven years later: the yard is still a work in progress and it still aches — but beauty is slowly coming back, she isn't leaving it, and there's no deadline on healing.

  3. Sep 16

    Providence & Discernment — Where the Church Draws the Line on Signs

    Kate follows up on Episode 10's hummingbird story with a careful theological look at where the Church draws the line between legitimate discernment and superstition. Using Gideon's fleece, Jesus's temptation in the desert, and the Catechism's teaching on testing God, superstition, and providence, this episode gives widows real language for holding their own "signs" with confidence rather than guesswork.

  4. Sep 9

    Hummingbirds, Answered Prayer, and the Line Between Faith and Superstition

    Kate tells the true story behind her personal symbol — a hummingbird — from a prayed-for sign before a twentieth-anniversary trip, to an oil painting in Buckingham Palace, to a hummingbird on the steps after Tom's funeral, to the origin of the Phoenix Path. A personal episode that opens an honest question: where is the line between faith and superstition when it comes to signs? Correction: In this episode, Kate mistakenly remembers and refers to the hummingbird piece she saw as an "oil painting." It's actually a batik — a hand-dyed cloth made using a wax-resist technique. See the real piece in the link below. https://www.rct.uk/collection/stories/grand-vestibule-the-british-monarchy-and-the-world/hummingbird-batik Resources: Kate is a Certified Catholic Psych Institute mentor and partner, providing faith-based mental healthcare and one-on-one support for widows experiencing complicated grief Walking the Phoenix Path With Kate: a four-week mentorship program with focused weekly topics for widows Schedule a consultation: KateLeFaivre.com or catholicpsych.com/kate-lefaivre Next episode: Providence & Discernment — what the Church actually teaches about praying for signs, and where superstition begins

  5. Aug 26

    The Communion of Saints

    The Communion of Saints is a beautiful teaching in the Catholic faith. Kate explains what it actually means, what the Church can and cannot say about whether your husband sees you now, and practical ways to live out the belief that death changes a relationship's form — it does not end it.

  6. Aug 26

    What We Keep- The Small Griefs

    The small griefs nobody names — a lip balm running out, the smell inside a hat — can hit harder than the big, expected ones. Kate tells two personal stories and explains the psychology of "linking objects" and grief bursts, offering permission to move at your own pace with his things, without a rulebook and without guilt.

  7. Aug 12

    What We Didn't Erase

    Nobody warns you about the paperwork. Kate shares how she accidentally lost Tom's voicemail greeting days after his death, being asked to pay the funeral bill in the middle of the wake to release his death certificate, the disorienting experience of retitling their vehicles at the DMV — and an unexpected encounter there with the police officer who had been in her bedroom the night Tom died. She also shares the one recording of Tom's voice the family intentionally chose to keep.

  8. Aug 5

    Why the Second Year is Harder

    The world expects grief to follow a one-year timeline. It doesn't. Kate explains why the second year of widowhood often feels harder than the first — the shock wearing off, the support thinning, the firsts giving way to the plain, ongoing fact of absence — and what actually helps when you're in the long walk of the wilderness.

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