Barren not Broken

Keith & Taryn – Love, Loss & the Layers Between

🎙 NEW EPISODE: Keith & Taryn – Love, Loss & the Layers Between 💔➡️💞

Keith and Taryn met in college and have been married since 2015. Their journey includes the joys of raising two beautiful children—and the deep heartbreak of three miscarriages and a season of secondary infertility.

In this powerful episode of Barren Not Broken, they invite us into their story with rare vulnerability. Together, they open up about:

🔸 The emotional toll of secondhand infertility
🔸 Walking through miscarriage—three times
🔸 How grief looks different for each spouse
🔸 Keith’s honest take on being a grieving husband and father
🔸 Taryn’s insight into the emotional and physical complexity of loss
🔸 What healing together can look like—and why hope is still possible

Whether you’re in the thick of it or walking alongside someone who is, this episode will help you feel seen, understood, and never alone.

Holding Both: Infertility, Foster Care & the Sacred Tension

In this heartfelt and honest conversation, Caitlyn Baten shares her journey through infertility and how it intersects with her deep passion for foster care and adoption. With a heart rooted in justice and mercy, Caitlyn opens up about what it means to live in the tension—longing for children of her own while being deeply invested in the lives of vulnerable children around the world. She gently challenges the idea that adoption is a “solution” for infertility and speaks with clarity and compassion about how the Church can better support both. Her story is one of grace, grit, and unwavering hope.

Miscarried Hope — Navigating Loss, Love & Leadership with Mark and Rachel Lohman

In this powerful and heartfelt episode, our Host Jason and Bonnie Ruth sit down with Mark and Rachel, lead pastors of The Bridge Church in Chino, CA, both are communicators of real hope and healing. Rachel, also is the author of Miscarried Hope and the founder of Hope Again Collective a jewelry line that gives back to moms who have experienced pregnancy loss. In this episode she shares alongside her husband Mark as they open up about the raw, unfiltered journey of walking through miscarriage — not just as individuals, but as a couple, and as leaders of a church community.
Together, they share how grief shook their foundation, yet how their faith became an anchor through the storm. They talk candidly about the personal pain of loss, the strain it can put on a relationship, and how they fought to stay connected — to God and to each other — even when the road felt dark and uncertain.
This episode is for couples who have walked through the heartbreak of pregnancy loss and are longing to feel less alone. It’s a conversation full of grace, wisdom, and vulnerability — one that offers practical ways to close the communication gaps that grief can open, and helps chart a course toward healing, intimacy, and renewed faith.
You’ll walk away feeling seen, supported, and encouraged to remember that no matter the barren places in our lives we do not have to live broken. 

Faith, Fertility & Finding Hope

A Doctor’s Perspective how couples can approach decision making, mindset, next steps while navigating faith. 

This was a powerful conversation that we hope encourages and inspires you. 

Dr. Collins is Board Certified Reproductive Endocrinologist at Center for Reproductive Endocrinology
Center for Reproductive Endocrinology  Yale University School of Medicine. 

The Rolfs have grown to respect him, his faith and practice greatly. 

Thank you to Twelve 12 ministries for allowing us to share this interview from their October 2024 event. We are grateful for our friendship with this ministry and Dr. Collins

Remember no matter the barren places in our lives we do not have to live broken. 

Childless not Purposeless

In this episode we get the opportunity to talk with Chris and Megan Rea of No Small Life & Make Love Work,  as they share their journey of navigating infertility and childlessness not by choice, within their marriage and faith community. We will hear how they were able to experience loss while developing a deeper faith but also some of the boundaries they had to create within their community in order to walk through this time in a more healthy way. They remind us that they may be childless but they are not purposeless. Be sure to visit them at nosmalllife.me and makelovework.me for more about their story and for resources if you are walking through this journey as well!

Stepping Forward Together With Hope

In this first episode of the newest Barren Not Broken Podcast season you will hear from our founders Jason and BonnieRuth Rolf. They will guide us through a conversation centered around "Stepping Forward Together in Hope". They reflect on the challenges of the past year and embrace the possibilities of a new one. They dive deep into the journey of healing and resilience, while giving  practical tools with the purpose to encourage couples facing infertility, loss, or childlessness not by choice. This episode will leave you inspired and remind us that, no matter the barren places in our lives, we do not have to live broken.

Childless Women Are Too Busy

BonnieRuth had an incredible chat with Sheri from Awaken Worth Podcast. The conversation centered around how we as women often judge ourselves and others with how busy we are. Comparing the plates we juggle whether we have kids or not, whether we are married or single.... When really why do we feel the need to be busy.... Are we self aware, are we hiding, are we avoiding, are we scared, are we insecure...? What is our busy centered around and how do we live balanced healthy lives as women while championing each other instead of tearing each other down. 

You will love Sheri!! BR always walks away from conversations with Sheri feeling inspired towards growth, challenged to engage and encouraged for how far she has come. 

Sheri helps women who are childless not by choice, to awaken their worth in a world that makes
them feel inadequate. Her passion is inspiring these women to live full and joyful lives of meaning
instead of lack.
After 3 miscarriages and 6 years of infertility, Sheri's coaching background and spiritual training
led her to discover a process for navigating the grief, the triggers, the feelings of exclusion and the
lack of purpose and meaning.
She packaged up this process into a formula that she teaches in 1:1 coaching and in her group
experience. Women leave her programs feeling empowered with practices they'll come back to
for a lifetime.

Grief Does Not Define Us (Part 2)

Peyton from Slaying the Stigma and Co founder of Gathering Hope and BonnieRuth from Barren Not Broken and Co founder of Legacy Place are bringing us a powerful podcast collaboration. Both ladies show us not only sharing their story but vulnerably inviting us into their personal grief journeys and how they have navigated that with their spouse, family and friends. They ask each other a series of questions both bringing their own perspective, experience and honesty to the table. There are several just WOW moments for both ladies as they gleam from each other, not holding back and giving practical tools. Grief does not have to define us and there is a way through it. 

Grief Does Not Define Us (Part 1)

Peyton from Slaying the Stigma and Co founder of Gathering Hope and BonnieRuth from Barren Not Broken and Co founder of Legacy Place are bringing us a powerful podcast collaboration. Both ladies show us not only sharing their story but vulnerably inviting us into their personal grief journeys and how they have navigated that with their spouse, family and friends. They ask each other a series of questions both bringing their own perspective, experience and honesty to the table. There are several just WOW moments for both ladies as they gleam from each other, not holding back and giving practical tools. Grief does not have to define us and there is a way through it. 

Finding Hope & Promise Through Secondary Infertility

Vivian Smith & BonnieRuth Rolf

This chat gets REAL! We do not hold back. It was such an honor to have Vivian share with us with such vulnerability how she has navigated, faith, family, marriage and medical trauma while facing Secondary Infertility. She comes at it from a very  honest place yet leaves us with such a perspective of hope and promise in who God is.