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.
30 Sept 2026
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.
16 Sept 2026
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.
9 Sept 2026
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
26 Aug 2026
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.
26 Aug 2026
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.
12 Aug 2026
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.
5 Aug 2026
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.
29 Jul 2026
Episode 5: Where is He Now?
Almost every widow carries the same unspoken question: is he okay? Kate walks through what the Catholic Church actually teaches about death, particular judgment, purgatory, and Heaven — not vague comfort, but real doctrine that offers real hope.
22 Jul 2026
Episode 4: What I Got Wrong About Grief
Kate shares the assumptions she brought into grief that turned out to be wrong — including the biggest one: that doing the work would mean arriving at "better" by year two. Her family attended Grief Share, a widow support group, and therapy. Year two hit like a brick anyway, and Kate is honest about the despair that came with it, and what carried her through.
15 Jul 2026
Episode 3: Grief Fog is Real
You walked into the kitchen to get something and stood there with no idea what it was. You lost a word mid-sentence — a word you've used a thousand times. You read the same paragraph four times and still couldn't tell anyone what it said.
Grief fog is real, it's neurological, and it is not a sign that something is wrong with you. In this episode, Kate explains what's actually happening in your brain after significant loss — why cortisol floods your memory, why decisions become impossible, why your brain keeps expecting your husband to walk through the door. She covers what genuinely helps, what doesn't, and why the God who is near to the brokenhearted doesn't require your full cognitive function to be present to you.
If you've been quietly wondering whether you're losing your mind — this episode is your answer.
8 Jul 2026
Episode 2: The Theology of Suffering
"Everything happens for a reason" is one of the most common things said to grieving people — and one of the least Catholic. Kate unpacks why the phrase misrepresents what the Church actually teaches about suffering, and offers three truths that are more honest, more beautiful, and more freeing.
Key theological concepts:
God's positive will vs. permissive will
The Book of Job and the rebuke of easy answers
Romans 8:28 — what it says and what it doesn't
Salvifici Doloris — St. John Paul II on the Christian meaning of suffering
Redemptive suffering and "offering it up"
Scripture: Psalm 34:18 // Romans 8:28 // 1 Corinthians 10:13 // Job 42:7–8
Further reading: Salvifici Doloris, St. John Paul II (1984) — available free at Vatican.va
Next episode: Grief Fog Is Real: What Loss Does to Your Brain
1 Jul 2026
Episode 1: My Story
Kate LeFaivre shares the story behind Mosaic — from an ordinary Sunday with her husband Tom, through the sudden loss that shattered everything, to the faith, healing, and full life that followed. If you're wondering who is walking beside you in this podcast, start here.
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