We're disrupting the myth 
 that joy can only be found 
 in a pain-free life. 

 We're disrupting the myth 
 that joycan only be found 
 in a pain-free life. 

 We're disrupting the 
 myth that joy can only be 
 found in a pain-free life. 

 

Welcome, friend.

We’re Katherine and Jay Wolf—survivors, communicators, and advocates. After giving birth to our first son in 2008, Katherine miraculously survived a catastrophic stroke. Since that day, we’ve used our second-chance lives to champion the truth that suffering and joy can coexist in your good/hard story. Learn more.

 

WELCOME, FRIEND.

We’re Katherine and Jay Wolf—survivors, communicators, and advocates. After giving birth to our first son in 2008, Katherine miraculously survived a catastrophic stroke. Since that day, we’ve used our second-chance lives to champion the truth that suffering and joy can coexist in your good/hard story.

Learn more.

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This gritty and grace-filled memoir recounts Katherine and Jay's struggle to embrace a life they never imagined living after Katherine survived a catastrophic stroke at age 26.

Read Hope Heals→

With humor and vulnerability, Katherine and Jay offer readers practical insights into suffering well and surviving anything by redefining how we think about everything.

Read Suffer Strong→

 

Join us at our next Event

Featured
Metro Women's Conference

Edwardsville, IL

Join Katherine at the Metro Women’s Conference at Metro Community Church in Edwardsville, IL. More information can be found here!

First Baptist on the Square

LaGrange, GA

Join Katherine at First Baptist on the Square in LaGrange! More info can be found here.

Refresh Conference

Jonesboro, AR

Join Katherine at the Refresh Conference at Central Baptist Church! More information can be found here!

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Testimonials
Lysa TerKuerst
Lysa TerKuerst

Katherine and Jay’s dedication to each other and the Lord through their most devastating season is inspiring. Their story will help your heart believe that He sees, He knows, He cares, and He is still working miracles today.

Tim Tebow
Tim Tebow

It’s possible for your pain to propel you to a place of wholeness rather than defeat. Katherine and Jay share lessons that have been won through extreme hardship, but are universally applicable to anyone’s story of pain

Maya Moore
Maya Moore

There is powerful credibility found in the words of this remarkable couple as they point us to the one they’ve grown to know through the fire. Katherine and Jay use their unique voice to help us reconcile what we all wrestle with in this life—God’s goodness and human suffering.

Ann Voskamp
Ann Voskamp

Katherine and Jay aren’t sharing ideas about how to endure suffering—they are sharing igniting hope that every single one of us needs: the tried, tested, true, and proven way through hard seasons, as told by brave survivor-thrivers who actually, daily, literally incarnate the truth about how to suffer strong.

Louie & Shelley Giglio
Louie & Shelley Giglio

You’re going to fall in love with our friends—their beauty, humor, and honesty. As they lead you, your suffering may actually turn into your greatest point of access to a broken and desperate world.

Levi & Jennie Lusko
Levi & Jennie Lusko

Katherine and Jay are two incredible people who, together, are a mighty force. They inspire us every day to live and love and to walk and weep with the strength of God in our spines.

Joni Eareckson Tada
Joni Eareckson Tada

Do not assume you’ve heard it all before. Theirs is a story so raw, visceral, and impossible real that you can’t help but identify.

Jennie Allen
Jennie Allen

I stumbled upon Katherine’s blog near the beginning of her recovery. The words of a sister fight for her life captivated us all. Now, years later, she is fighting for our lives, for us to live the fullest we can with all that we’ve been given.