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Today's Heartlift with Janell323. Grandmothers, Mothers, and Mentors: Why Women's Influence MattersSend us a textSo proud to be in Feedspot's Top 100 Mental Health Podcasts: https://podcast.feedspot.com/mental_health_podcasts/Today's Heartlifting Episode:Something is stirring in the hearts of women across generations. That quiet voice urging us toward purpose beyond ourselves—toward becoming maternal presences in a world desperately needing wisdom, nurturing, and light.In this soul-stirring conversation, Leslie Means (founder of Her View From Home and author of "So God Made a Grandma") joins Janell to unpack what happens when women fully embrace their capacity to nurture those in...
2025-05-1447 min
Today's Heartlift with Janell35. If Mama Ain't Behavin'Send us a textFrom the Archives: April 2019While visiting Grandbirds in Uruguay, Janell revisits three foundational episodes, starting today with Episode 34 from April 2019.This week is Episode 35 from April 2019.Working from her second book, Overcoming Hurtful Words: Rewrite Your Story, Janell introduces the foundation of The Heartlift Method.Join Janell on this replay of her three-week mini-series on the three-fold cord of emotional and spiritual health: a healthy sense of self, healthy behavior patterns, and healthy communication skills. Experts have shown that emotional intelligence is the foundation for...
2025-01-2235 min
Today's Heartlift with Janell34. If Mama Ain't Emotionally HealthySend us a textFrom the Archives: April 2019While visiting Grandbirds in Uruguay, Janell revisits three foundational episodes, starting today with Episode 34 from April 2019.Working from her second book, Overcoming Hurtful Words: Rewrite Your Story, Janell introduces the foundation of The Heartlift Method.Join Janell on this replay of her three-week mini-series on the three-fold cord of emotional and spiritual health: a healthy sense of self, healthy behavior patterns, and healthy communication skills. Experts have shown that emotional intelligence is the foundation for personal and professional success. Janell adds spiritual authenticity...
2025-01-1529 min
Today's Heartlift with Janell235. Everything Comes Down to LoveSend us a textI am replaying this beautiful, foundational episode from 2023 as we begin journeying through the world of mothering in 2025.After decades of mothering my children and students, I've concluded one valuable truth: Everything comes down to love.A beautiful chapter to reflect on is 1 John 4. Take it line by line. I pray that you grasp the depths of God's love for you this year.In a recent podcast, I heard Arthur C. Brooks, co-author of "Build the Life You Want," earnestly proclaim, "Everything comes down to love." His...
2025-01-0821 min
Today's Heartlift with Janell271. Breath Prayer and Intentions: Cultivating Tranquility in a Turbulent WorldSend us a textStrolling through the cobblestone streets of Antwerp, I was struck by the profound influence of perception in shaping our world. This revelation is the heartbeat of our season finale, where I share the insights gathered from our journey together and extend a heartfelt invitation to newcomers to find solace and connection at Heartlift Central. We're turning the page to a new chapter, replete with reflections from Proverbs 4:23 and lessons learned from personal anecdotes, all while nurturing a space free from the cacophony of digital distractions.In the quietude of our sanctuary...
2024-04-0333 min
Today's Heartlift with Janell262. Is Forgiveness Really Possible, Part 2Send us a text"No matter what has hurt you, there is a simple, yet powerful, answer to your healing: forgiveness.:-Toni and Bruce Hebel*Be sure to check out Toni and Bruce's brand-new video course on FORGIVENESS and DOWNLOAD their 7 Protocols. Click here and scroll to the bottom of the page. Forgiveness can be a hot topic.In Part 2 of this conversation, Toni and Bruce Hebel, authors of "Forgiving Forward: Unleashing the Forgiveness Revolution," continue guiding us through their powerful, hard-earned lessons on forgiveness. Season 15 looks at perception...
2024-02-0728 min
Today's Heartlift with Janell261. Is Forgiveness Really Possible?Send us a text"No matter what has hurt you, there is a simple, yet powerful, answer to your healing: forgiveness.:-Toni and Bruce HebelForgiveness can be a hot topic.In Part 1 of this conversation, Toni and Bruce Hebel, authors of "Forgiving Forward: Unleashing the Forgiveness Revolution," help us understand the power of forgiveness. Season 15 is looking at perception and the perceptive process and inviting us to broaden our knowledge and understanding of how perception affects our capacity to practice forgiveness. No matter where you are on your faith j...
2024-01-3133 min
Today's Heartlift with Janell260. Does Our Perception Process Affect Our Prayer Life? Part 2Send us a text"When we view (perceive) prayer as a call to duty or a responsibility, it also affects how we approach it. We feel obliged to pray and guilty when we don't do it. This perspective often leads us to believe that negative consequences may befall us if we neglect prayer and makes our prayer life driven by fear and guilt. But, 2 Timothy 1:7 states, 'For God has not given us a spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.'"Does our perception process affect our prayer...
2024-01-2435 min
Today's Heartlift with Janell259. Does Our Perception Process Affect Our Prayer Life?Send us a text"In our prayer lives, we cherish the continual chance to strengthen our faith through an active prayer routine, viewing it as a rare privilege. With sincere dedication, we approach each instance of prayer with reverence, recognizing the gravity of the bestowed privilege. Committed to fortifying our faith, we follow scriptural guidance by praying in the spirit on all occasions, utilizing various forms of prayer to deepen our spiritual connection. We keep firing up!Also, when we perceive our relationship as a privilege, we are better positioned to invest in...
2024-01-1725 min
Today's Heartlift with Janell258. Changing Our Perception Process Isn't EasySend us a textEasy defined (adj.), "Causing or involving little difficulty or discomfort; Requiring or indicating little effort, thought, or reflection."We all want easy, right? I know I've asked for it and even prayed for it. Even if it is just for a short season.Yet, real spiritual and mental growth, often requires the opposite.In today's episode, I continue our conversation on "The Power of Perception" and introduce "The Eight Stages of Perception." I share a little more about Episode 1's object lesson, "Two Dishrags in a Ziploc," a...
2024-01-1228 min
Today's Heartlift with Janell257. The Elusive Power of PerceptionSend us a text"What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are" (C. S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew).Did you know that "your mindset plays a significant role in determining your life's outcomes?" We all have a mindset: expectations, assumptions, and perceptions that help us (or hurt us) as we interact with the world around us. "Perception is most important because it allows us to experience our environment and interact with it in...
2024-01-0323 min
Today's Heartlift with Janell256. Advent Glimmer: May Our Thoughts Be True LightSend us a text"When we are confined inside the dark house of suffering, that moonlight might find a window into our dark house of suffering."-John O'DonohueWe spend our last Wisdom Wednesday revisiting the ancient wisdom of John O'Donohue's For Light, listening for truths we can apply to our lives. After re-listening, one sentence caught my attention: "May our thoughts be true light."May our thoughts be true light.As Heartlifters, we know the power our thoughts have over us.They rule and reign supreme.
2023-12-2706 min
Today's Heartlift with Janell255. Advent Glimmers: May Our Eyes Have Kindness and ReveranceSend us a text"When we look into our hearts, may our eyes have the kindness andreverence of candlelight."-John O'DonohueHow is your glimmering going? I'm here in Belgium welcoming my third grandchild into this wintry, Christmas season. What a delightful light-filled time to be born. In this meditative lectio divina Advent Glimmer, I read the gentle words of Irish poet, John O'Donohue, an absolute favorite of mine. His words are life-giving and healing. Worthy of writing down in your heart journal. Listen to these:"When we become...
2023-12-2006 min
Today's Heartlift with Janell254. Advent Glimmer: Joy-BuildingSend us a text"Joy levels are like the temperature of an oven. We can choose our ingredients carefully, but the oven temperature will determine what our careful preparations will yield. Consider the effect of angry or joyful parents on family prayer and Biblereading. As joy increases so does the chance that transformation will go in a positive direction. Joy levels greatly affect whether our efforts will be productive and lasting. Why would a powerful factor go unnoticed by most of the church?"-Jim Wilder, Joy Changes EverythingHave you ever considered...
2023-12-1322 min
Today's Heartlift with Janell253. Do You Have a Glimmer Block? Part 2Send us a text"As we delve into the realm of positive psychology, we uncover a wealth of evidence supporting the notion that focusing on positive moments contributes significantly to our overall well-being. Psychologically, this emphasis on positivity is linked to the broaden-and-build theory proposed by Barbara Fredrickson. According to this theory, positive emotions broaden our awareness and encourage novel and creative thinking, ultimately building resources that contribute to resilience and long-term flourishing."-Heather Alfonso, Glimmers: Cultivating Joy in Everyday MomentsHow is your glimmer hunting going? Season 14 invited us to look for glimmers...
2023-12-0634 min
Today's Heartlift with Janell241. A Choice to Love Every DaySend us a textLove is God's language.On a plane ride home, I watched a charming Netflix movie, "Love at First Sight," and was gripped by the last line, "We all have a choice to love every day." We all have a choice to love every day.Yet, so many in our world make a choice to hate every day.Just turn on the news.In this "birthday episode" of my podcast, I return to my book, "Stronger Every Day: 9 Tools for an Emotionally Healthy You."
2023-10-1138 min
Today's Heartlift with Janell240. Moving Toward My Beloved, Authentic SelfSend us a textThe Enneagram is one of the primary tools of my private practice. I've never found another personality typing system that gets to the "motive of our heart" like the Enneagram. It isn't the Bible or even the "gospel of personalities," but it is a useful tool that helps us build stronger relationships. In Part 2, Spiritual Director, Marilyn Vancil, author of "Beyond the Enneagram," shares how the Enneagram guides us home, toward our Authentic Self. 5 themes of this episode: 1. Understanding the Enneagram: The episode focuses on the Enneagram as a sy...
2023-10-0640 min
Today's Heartlift with Janell238. Finding God's Love in Psalm 63Send us a text"Growing in our relational knowledge of how to connect and love requires a lot of practice. And it requires deliberate practice. We need to focus on specific outcomes that stretch us beyond our current relational knowledge and spiritual maturity level. We need to rely on methods taught in Scripture and developed by spiritual masters further down the road" (Todd W. Hall, The Connected Life). In the early morning hours, Janell found herself tossing and turning. With a God whisper in her ear, she released her desire to stay nestled under the c...
2023-09-2734 min
Today's Heartlift with Janell237. Choosing Love Over Self-Centric Despair, Part 2Send us a textIn his newest book, "Analog Christian: Cultivating Contentment, Resilience, and Wisdom in the Digital Age," author and pastor Jay Kim, writes, "One of the most effective ways of lulling us in is to situate us in a never-ending loop of comparison, which eventually breeds contempt, before finally devolving into unprecedented levels of self-centric despair. This often leads to a nagging and incessant impatience, as we desperately seek morsels of satisfaction that always leave us wanting." The main point here being, "always leaving us wanting." In Part 2, Jay and Janell continue their conversation about...
2023-09-2223 minToday's Heartlift with Janell236. Choosing Love Over Self-Centric DespairSend us a textWhat is self-centric despair? Today's guest, Jay Kim, lead pastor of Westgate Church in Silicon Valley, is going to tell us all about it. In his newest book, "Analog Christian: Cultivating Contentment, Resilience, and Wisdom in the Digital Age," Jay writes, "Much of my loss of contentment was connected to the persistent sense of self-centric despair I felt as I continued spiraling down the vortex of comparison loops and contempt systems found within social media." In today's episode, Jay and Janell open a luminous conversation about how digital tools are forming us, or...
2023-09-2034 min
Today's Heartlift with Janell234. What Are You Longing For?Send us a textLonging invites curiosity. Irish Poet, David Whyte writes this about longing, "Longing is nothing without its dangerous edge, which cuts and wounds us while setting us free, and beckons us exactly because of the human need to invite the right kind of peril." Season 12's invitation to slow down the pace of our lives has left us finally exhaling from the mad rate at which our society likes to live. In this closing conversation, Janell guides us to look deep inside our core to answer these questions: What are you longing for?W...
2023-08-1613 min
Today's Heartlift with Janell233. The Power of Longing, Part 2Send us a textLonging and Waiting often walk hand-in-hand. In today's conversation, Janell and Cally Logan, author of Dear Future Husband, talk about the process of waiting for your longing. This involves a great deal of longsuffering and patience. Again, Janell asks, "What are you longing for?" Dig into the archives and find even more resources on waiting and patience:Visit the podcast archive: The Waiting RoomVisit the podcast archive: The Three Letters Visit Cally's site: Cally LoganOrder Cally's book: Dear Future HusbandFollow Cally...
2023-08-1120 min
Today's Heartlift with Janell231. Finding Purpose in the Unknown and Unexpected Seasons of LifeSend us a textGrace Wabuke Klein, author of "Flourish: Finding Purpose in the Unknown and Unexpected Seasons of Life," knows that there is great purpose in our darkest days and seasons of waiting. Today, she talks to us about heartache, disappointment, and pain and gives encouragement and a fresh perspective on the winter seasons we all go through, as well practical steps to not just survive but to find purpose in the unknown and the unexpected. Grace and Janell talk through the importance of every season:Fall is a time of release. Winter is...
2023-08-0345 min
Today's Heartlift with Janell227. Becoming Acquainted with GriefSend us a text"Grief is a strong, sometimes overwhelming emotion for people, regardless of whether their sadness stems from the loss of a loved one or from a terminal diagnosis they or someone they love have received."-The Mayo ClinicSometimes we have to hit the pause button in order to process really difficult emotional states. Grief is one of those emotions that needs time to breathe. Natasha Smith, author of "Can You Just Sit With Me? Healthy Grieving for the Losses of Life" (IVP), comes to the show today to...
2023-07-1937 minToday's Heartlift with Janell223. Upcycling Our Brokenness: Finding Purpose in Life's MessesSend us a text In Today's Heartlift with Janell, the episode features guest, Tina Yeager, author of "Upcycled: Crafted for a Purpose, and discusses the concept of upcycling, where God transforms our brokenness into something beautiful and purposeful. Janell and Tina talk about their own past struggles and how God sees them through difficult times. The episode focuses on the idea that people have unique talents and abilities, and working together as a team can help us grow and compensate for each other's weaknesses. They discuss how labels based on achievements, appearance, and status cannot fulfill us, a...
2023-06-2826 minToday's Heartlift with Janell222. Making Peace with Our Body, Bonus EpisodeSend us a textOn this episode of Today's Heartlift with Janell, I am joined by special guest Melissa L. Johnson, author of "Soul Deep Beauty: Fighting for Our True Worth in a World Demanding Flawless." In this bonus session, Melissa and I discuss our personal experiences with prayer and how it can shift our mindset toward a more compassionate God. Janell also shares her struggles with perfectionism and her reparative experience with Jesus. They also touch on the unrealistic beauty standards imposed by our culture and the importance of getting to know ourselves better....
2023-06-2307 minToday's Heartlift with Janell221. Making Peace with Our Body ImageSend us a textOn this episode of Today's Heartlift with Janell, I am joined by special guest Melissa L. Johnson, author of "Soul Deep Beauty: Fighting for Our True Worth in a World Demanding Flawless." In this bonus session, Melissa and I discuss our personal experiences with prayer and how it can shift our mindset toward a more compassionate God. Janell also shares her struggles with perfectionism and her reparative experience with Jesus. They also touch on the unrealistic beauty standards imposed by our culture and the importance of getting to know ourselves better....
2023-06-2251 minToday's Heartlift with Janell220. Stuff I'd Only Tell God: Question and Answer TimeSend us a textIn this little bonus episode, Janell and Jennifer Dukes Lee, author of "Stuff I'd Only Tell God," have a little question and answer time, using writing prompts from Jennifer's book. Even if you are not a fan of writing stuff down, Janell and Jennifer show how you can use this guided journal as a conversation starter with trusted friends and family members. Journaling is so good for the soul and is a viable tool for mental, emotional, and spiritual health.Learn more about Jennifer: Jennifer Dukes LeeUse this...
2023-06-1614 minToday's Heartlift with Janell218. "Women in Ministry: the Struggle for Equality and Respect" , Part 2Send us a textIn Part Two of the conversation with author Nijay Gupta, Janell and Nijay discuss women in the early church, highlighting influential figures like Lydia and Junia. Nijay encourages listeners to follow the breadcrumbs of their faith to find their own ways to serve God's kingdom. Nijay says, "One of the ways that our eyes get in the way of our gifts and our calling is by looking at what we perceive to be limitations, rather than looking at what God has called us to do and who God has called us to be."
2023-06-0741 minToday's Heartlift with Janell216. Sunday Edition: State of the Heart AddressSend us a textIn this special Sunday Edition, Janell shares "the state of the heart" of the podcast. Season 11's, "Let's Be Remarkable Tour," closes with two very special episodes with Nijay Gupta, author of "Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church." Looking forward, Season 12 brings "A Contemplative Summer," where we journey through beautiful, contemplative practices that will help us all breathe in the slow pace of summer living. Please send your questions here: janell@janellrardon.com and Text your questions and I'll answer them on t...
2023-05-2810 minToday's Heartlift with Janell213. Hope For Our Anxious HeartsSend us a textSometimes a pause is the most important moment in a beautiful piece of choreography or a magnificent symphonic presentation. Everything stands still for a second or two. This week, we pause in order to take in all of last week's episode with Curtis Chang, author of "The Anxiety Opportunity: Worry is the Doorway to Our Best Self." The wisdom of his words needs to linger. They need space to take root in our hearts and minds and souls. Included is a beautiful time of meditation. Take several pauses this week, as we approach...
2023-05-1023 minToday's Heartlift with Janell212. Accepting Our Anxious SelfSend us a textWhat if anxiety isn't the enemy but is a doorway to our very best self? May is Mental Health Month, so Season 11's "Let's Be Remarkable Tour," will close out with remarkable conversations about bridging the gaps between faith and mental health. In his new book, "The Anxiety Opportunity: How Worry is the Doorway to Our Best Self," theologian, popular podcaster, and fellow sufferer of chronic anxiety, Curtis Chang, offers a different framework for approaching the common afflictions of anxiety and worry.Please send your questions here: janell@janellrardon.com and...
2023-05-0352 minToday's Heartlift with Janell211. Learning From Our MistakesSend us a textPoet David Whyte defines regret as "a short, evocative, and achingly beautiful word; an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation...Sincere regret may in fact be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own. To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life. Fully experienced, regret turns our eyes, attentive and alert to a future possibly lived...
2023-04-2652 minToday's Heartlift with Janell210. Learning to Take RisksSend us a textDo you have an inner critic or maybe two that try to keep you safe by whispering limiting beliefs in your ear? They hold you back from taking necessary risks that lead you to true freedom and fulfillment. Andrea Mein DeWitt, author of "Name, Claim, and Reframe: Your Path to a Well-Lived Life," shares her remarkable story of transitioning from a 30-year career in academia to becoming a certified life coach. She took a risk. She writes, "Any success story is a tale of constant adaptation, revision, and change." We talk about "shedding...
2023-04-1941 minToday's Heartlift with Janell209. Bonus: Dr. Curt Thompson, "No Hint of Shame"Send us a textWith Easter's aria to the resurrection of Christ, let's take a moment (or two) to listen to the powerful words of Dr. Curt Thomspon, author of "The Soul of Shame," in this repeat performance from Season 5, Episode 8. Curt shares the miraculous resurrection of Christ in such a fresh, deeply meaningful way and leads us into an authentic space to consider what that miraculous event means in our lives. Make space for this conversation so you can really listen closely to the whispers of the Spirit.Please send your questions here: janell...
2023-04-121h 01Today's Heartlift with Janell208. Is the Fear of Rejection Holding You Back? Part 2Send us a textHow do you handle the rejections that Life brings? In Part 1 of my conversation with Jessica Van Roekel, author of "Reframing Rejection: How Looking Through a Different Lens Changes Everything," Jessica guides us through the four types of rejection: Perceived Rejection, Actual Rejection, Unintentional Rejection, and Intentional Rejection (ouch). In Part 2, she shares lessons from her life as a photographer and how "looking through a different lens changes everything." She shares the following:As a photographer, I get to choose what's in the frame. You might see a beautiful blade of grass...
2023-04-0534 minToday's Heartlift with Janell207. Is the Fear of Rejection Holding You Back? Part 1Send us a textRejection is a really big part of living this life and being a human. We will be rejected. That might sound a little doom and gloom, but it is a vital reality that we need to face and equip ourselves to deal with. Welcome Jessica Van Roekel, Author of "Reframing Rejection: How Looking Through a Different Lens Changes Everything." In Part 1 of my two-part conversation with Jessica, we talk about the 4 types of rejection, 9 practices to fight the spiraling negative rejection feedback loop, and identify 4 new lenses through which to "see" and therefore...
2023-03-2943 minToday's Heartlift with Janell206. Is Fear Holding You Back? Part 2Send us a textFear. What a gloomy shadow fear casts over our minds and hearts. It keeps us in lockdown. It can keep us emotionally, and even physically, paralyzed and incapable of moving toward a really good life. In Part 2 of "Is Fear Holding You Back?", Author Kathy DeGraw builds us up even more and infuses an IV of courage and bravery into our hearts. She invites us to take the much-needed time and space to identify "mind-binding spirits" that keep our minds in anguish, confusion, and emotional upheaval. Please send your questions here: j...
2023-03-2230 minToday's Heartlift with Janell205. Is Fear Holding You Back?Send us a textIs fear holding you back from your living a rich and meaningful life? Is it holding you back from creating an atmosphere of strength and resilience in your home and family? Author of "Mind Battles: Root Out Mental Triggers to Release Peace," Kathy DeGraw, has a powerful word for us. Kathy grew up in an atmosphere of fear where "fear was the first reaction to anything." She felt brainwashed by fear and emotionally paralyzed. As she matured, she thought, "There has to be something better than this...better than reacting with fear." By...
2023-03-1550 minToday's Heartlift with Janell204. Spiritual Authenticity: Being Comfortable in Our Own Skin, Part 2Send us a textHappy International Women's Day. A day set apart to celebrate the gift of being a woman. In Part 2 of Janell and Lisa's conversation, they touch on questions like, "Have you ever felt, 'I just don't measure up? I'm not really important. What I do doesn't matter.'" Meet two women who both can answer yes to those questions. One is an introverted, "quietly unconventional," soul, and the other, an extroverted introvert (ambivert), anything but "quiet" or "conventional," yet, both share similar needs to feel at home in their bodies. Both feel an innate...
2023-03-0838 minToday's Heartlift with Janell203. Spiritual Authenticity: Being Comfortable in Our Own SkinSend us a textWhat does it really mean to be an authentic human being? What does it mean to feel really comfortable in our own skin? Whether an introvert or extrovert, a public or private figure or hugely popular vs secretly a misfit, what does it mean to feel entirely at home in who God created us to be? In Part 1 of this remarkable conversation, Author Lisa E. Betz shares her journey with becoming comfortable in her "quietly unconventional" self. Janell and Lisa share how a seemingly unorganized public event invited them into an unexpected meaningful...
2023-03-0157 minToday's Heartlift with Janell202. Spiritual Amnesia: Have I Forgotten the Blessings of God?Send us a textWe serve a remarkable God who "remarks," again and again, blessings in our lives. Day after day, He sends forth blessings, yet we often develop spiritual amnesia and become dull, numb, or even blind to them. It is HIS nature to bless His children with "good and perfect gifts" (James 1:17). The question is: Do we stop and notice these blessings? In his new book, "The Lord Bless You," Pastor Terry A. Smith, invites us to recapture God's heart for blessing His children. From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible makes it clear that our...
2023-02-2349 minToday's Heartlift with Janell201. Translating Our Past: Finding Meaning in Family Ancestry, Genetic Clues, and Generational TraumaSend us a textHave you ever heard a parent or family member say, "You are just like Aunt Esther," or "Don't be like Uncle Joe," or maybe even, "You're just like your mother!" If you are desiring to be a wholehearted, highly integrated self, understanding the genetic code of your DNA is critical to the process. We must know why we do what we do. Did this triggering behavior get passed down through the generations? Does it need to stop NOW? In today's episode, Michelle Van Loon, author of "Translating Your Past," guides us into the...
2023-02-1555 minToday's Heartlift with Janell200. Let's Talk About PsychiatrySend us a textWe are in a mental health crisis of epidemic proportions. Rates of addiction, mass violence, and suicide are at an all-time high. This data is evidence of the failures of both society and mental health treatment, and even perhaps, proof of the failures of our modern-day church systems. We have to do better. Today we talk with Sudhir Gadh, MD, a board-certified psychiatrist with a private practice in Union Square, NYC. First, we hear from the heart of a compassionate man who gives selflessly to his clients and community. Second, we hear from...
2023-02-0953 minToday's Heartlift with Janell199. Let Your Heart SpeakSend us a textWhat does it mean to let your heart speak?Heartlifters, this episode with Author and Graphic Recorder, Sherrill Knezel, went long, but every second of this remarkable conversation is filled with life-giving, heartlifting wisdom. Sherrill's story speaks of courage, strength, openness, flexibility, and a remarkable belief in her gifts and talents and images what it means to let your life and heart speak. Her new book, "Heart Speak, A Visual Interpretation of Let Your Life Speak "(by Parker J. Palmer), includes more than seventy heartfelt images to go along with excerpts from...
2023-02-011h 01Today's Heartlift with Janell196. Looking Forward to 2023Send us a textIrish poet and priest, John O'Donohue writes, "Sometimes the greatest challenge is to begin; there is something deep within us that conspires with what wants to remain within safe boundaries and stay the same." We are invited into new beginnings and beautiful changes at the beginning of a brand new year. It will be challenging...but we can do this together. This online community exists for new beginnings and fresh starts. Receive the invitation of this New Year message: What new beginnings are you being invited into this year? As Janell shares her...
2023-01-1136 minToday's Heartlift with Janell195. Looking Back at 2022Send us a text“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.”—Jonathan Lockwood HuieLooking back at 2022 and celebrating our three seasons of great conversations and remarkable guests. Our journey invited us to reimagine our lives and consider how we want to really live our everyday lives. Janell reflects on a very important lesson she learned and why she is making it a high-priority initiative in this new year.Links + Resources from this Episode: So excited that the podcast has been voted in the Top 100 Mental Health Podcasts on Feedspot: https://b...
2023-01-0422 minToday's Heartlift with Janell194. Developing a Good Day Mindset, Part 2Send us a textWe are closing out Season 10 with a bang! In Part 2 of this conversation with Dr. Michelle Bengtson, Author of "Today's Going to Be a Good Day: 90 Promises from God to Start Your Day Off Right," Janell and Michelle share strategic, highly practical ways to CHOOSE a "good-day mindset." Also, mark your calendars and save the date for the "GOOD DAY CHALLENGE," from January 1-8, 2023. The links for more information are below.Links + Resources from this Episode: So excited that the podcast has been voted in the Top 100 Mental Health P...
2022-12-2829 minToday's Heartlift with Janell193. Every Day is Going To Be a Good Day, Part 1Send us a textWe are closing out Season 10 with a bang! In this two-part conversation with Dr. Michelle Bengtson, Author of "Today's Going to Be a Good Day: 90 Promises from God to Start Your Day Off Right," Janell and Michelle share strategic, highly practical ways to CHOOSE a "good-day mindset." Also, mark your calendars and save the date for the "GOOD DAY CHALLENGE," from January 1-8, 2023. The links for more information are below.Links + Resources from this Episode: So excited that the podcast has been voted in the Top 100 Mental Health Podcasts o...
2022-12-2141 minToday's Heartlift with Janell191. Returning to Childlike Faith in Our Everyday Lives, Part 1Send us a textRachel Dodge, Author of "The Anne of Green Gables Devotional," and the new, upcoming "The Secret Garden Devotional," invites each of us to take the time this Advent Season to nurture our childlike faith. In Part 1, she shares and encourages us to dream and experience faith like the charming Anne of Green Gables and to remember what it is like to experience God in nature. She also challenges us with a beautiful new reading from "The Secret Garden Devotional," in which Mary of Misslewhaite Manor "fights with the wind."Links + Resources...
2022-12-0849 minToday's Heartlift with Janell190. Welcoming Liminal Spaces in our Everyday Lives, Part 2Send us a text“Liminal space can best be described as going through a change or going from place to place—from one thing to the next,” says transitions expert Melissa Cohen, a licensed clinical social worker in New York and founder of the mental wellness website A Redefined You. “It’s the space between what is and what will happen next,” she says. In other words, liminal space refers to the actual space or time in which you shift from one phase to another." Have you ever found yourself in a liminal space? You may not have known t...
2022-11-3026 minToday's Heartlift with Janell189. Welcoming Liminal Spaces in our Everyday LivesSend us a textAs we celebrate Thanksgiving this week in the States, we take time to reflect with gratitude on the goodness of God. This week's episode invites three questions: When was the last time you noticed the grandeur of God in your everyday life? Did it make you smile and maybe even take your breath away? Finally, did you take a moment to thank Him? In this episode, we welcome Rachel Ridge, author of "Your Mountain is Calling: Finding God in Untamed Places," and listen to her invitations to welcome liminal spaces into our lives...
2022-11-2340 minToday's Heartlift with Janell188. Learning to Sort Through the Voices in Our Heads, Part 2Send us a textWhat do we do with all these voices that twirl and swirl in our minds? In Part 2, Gem Fadling, author of "Hold That Thought: Sorting Through the Voices in Our Heads," offers us remarkable wisdom and practical action steps for sorting through those oft-debilitating negative voices. Her message of Trinitarian Love is profound and life-changing. She shares, "Love mixed with pain will change you."Links + Resources from this Episode: So excited that the podcast has been voted in the Top 100 Mental Health Podcasts on Feedspot: https://blog.feedspot.com/m...
2022-11-1639 minToday's Heartlift with Janell187. Learning to Sort Through the Voices in Our HeadsSend us a textMaybe you recognize some of these voices that try to drain our everyday life of meaning and vitality: the Stressed Achiever, the Positive Thinker, the Complaining Victim, the Passive Spectator, the Anxious Controller, the Unsettled Heart, or the Inner Critic. Author and Spiritual Director, Gem Fadling, brings the wisdom of her new book, "Hold That Thought: Sorting Through the Voices in Our Heads," to this week's conversation.Links + Resources from this Episode: So excited that the podcast has been voted in the Top 100 Mental Health Podcasts on Feedspot: https://b...
2022-11-0939 minToday's Heartlift with Janell186. Contemplative Prayer in Our Everyday Lives, Part 2Send us a textIn Part 2 of this great conversation with Jan Johnson, author, and spiritual director, Jan continues to share lessons she learned from her mentor, friend, and co-author, Dallas Willard. She shares how using our imagination, our five God-given senses, and an openness to the power of the Spirit can transform "the mental chore of prayer" into a beautiful, personal relationship with God. In her book, "When the Soul Listens," she writes, "In contemplative prayer, the curtains of impression management come down. There's no one you have to impress; you are accepted as you are...
2022-11-0219 minToday's Heartlift with Janell185. Contemplative Prayer in Our Everyday LivesSend us a textAre you looking for a deeper connection with God? In today's episode, author and spiritual director, Jan Johnson, opens a beautiful, heartwarming conversation about contemplative prayer. With humor and candor, she shares how her own prayer life had become mechanical and transactional, leading her on a quest for more.Links + Resources from this Episode: So excited that the podcast has been voted in the Top 100 Mental Health Podcasts on Feedspot: https://blog.feedspot.com/mental_health_podcasts/Learn more about Jan's writings and work: JANLearn more about Dallas W...
2022-10-2647 minToday's Heartlift with Janell184. Everyday Tendencies Toward Feeling InvisibleSend us a textHave you ever felt like a wallflower? You know, the invisible woman sitting in the corner of your community? Unnoticed. Forgotten. Our guest today, Cheri Strange, author of "Can You See Me Now?: Good News for the Lonely, Left Out, and Less Than" definitely knows that feeling. The community of faith doesn't talk about this subject enough, so today, Cheri and Janell open up a very honest, heart-to-heart, about how to reframe a "wallflower mentality" in order to leave "wallflower ways" behind.Links + Resources from this Episode: So excited t...
2022-10-1950 minToday's Heartlift with Janell183. Everyday Prayers of Rest MeditationSend us a textGreat thinkers and theologians all agree that prayer without meditation is "like putting a thing in a bag with holes," (Manton), or "an arrow shot with a weak bow," (Bates), or basically, is just "unfruitful" (Toon). In Season 10, we examine the role of prayer and meditation in our everyday lives. We are being invited to develop a new rhythm and habit of daily prayer. We are learning this doesn't have to be complicated, in truth, it is an invitation to simplicity. Find a few quiet moments to soak in this beautiful meditation read...
2022-10-1311 minToday's Heartlift with Janell182. Everyday Prayers of RestSend us a textGrowing a daily habit of prayer can be daunting in this crazy, hurried culture we all live in, but developing this daily habit adds so much meaning to life. To help us learn simple, practical ways to incorporate prayers of rest into our lives, author Asheritah Ciuciu shares and reads from her newest book, "Prayers of Rest: Daily Prompts to Slow Down and Hear God's Voice."Links + Resources from this Episode: So excited that the podcast has been voted in the Top 100 Mental Health Podcasts on Feedspot: https://blog.f...
2022-10-1347 minToday's Heartlift with Janell181. Everyday Anxiety Elephants, Part 2Send us a textWere you more aware this week of those Anxiety Elephants trying to stomp in your life? Thanks to Caris Snider, author of the "Anxiety Elephants" series for adults and tween boys and girls, we received a powerful visual image of the heavyweight anxiety plays in our everyday lives. This week, we continue this conversation and are again invited to consider something C. S. Lewis called, "baptized imagination." What role might our baptized imagination play in the management of our emotional and mental health? How can our baptized imagination help us make the journey...
2022-10-0546 minToday's Heartlift with Janell180. Everyday Anxiety ElephantsSend us a textIs there any better way to visualize anxiety than picturing an elephant sitting on your chest? Author Caris Snider creates this mental picture in her new devotional, Anxiety Elephants for Tween Girls and Tween Boys. In Part I of this interview, Caris shares her own story of when anxiety elephants came and sat on her chest. Anxiety is heavy. Caris and Janell offer ways to manage the heaviness.Links + Resources from this Episode: So excited that the podcast has been voted in the Top 100 Mental Health Podcasts on Feedspot: h...
2022-09-3042 minToday's Heartlift with Janell178. Every Day in the Secret PlaceSend us a textWhat is "the secret place" in the life of our everyday faith? What images come to mind when you hear words like, "silence," and "solitude?" Perhaps they bring up somewhat negative or scary memories of having to be "seen and not heard" as a child sitting in the pews of the church. In today's episode, Janell invites us to get to know a little more about the secret place and the high value it can bring to your everyday faith journey.Links + Resources from this Episode: So excited that t...
2022-09-1435 minToday's Heartlift with Janell175. Season Finale: Motherhood and PostpartumSend us a textIn our grand Season 9 Finale, we have author Julie Thomas, Ph.D., with us. In her book, "Hope Inside Out," and in her brave "I Am Second," White Chair interview, Julie shares her grueling battle with Post Partum Depression. Around 1 in 7 women can develop postpartum depression (PPD). While some women experience "the baby blues," PPD lasts longer and affects women's ability to return to normal function. Many mothers, like Julie, go undiagnosed and suffer in shameful silence because of the stigma that still exists around PPD. Julie Thomas is a brave woman whose...
2022-08-3150 minToday's Heartlift with Janell172. 3 Tips for Overcoming a Helpless Mindset Part 2Send us a textHow is your mindset? In her newest book, "Make Up Your Mind: Unlock Your Thoughts, Transform Your Life," Author and LPC-S, Michelle Nietert, hones in on "a helpless mindset," and offers us wise, practical ways to breakthrough that sense of learned helplessness to a stance of true freedom.Links + Resources from this Episode: So excited that the podcast has been voted #11 in the Top 100 Mental Health Podcasts on Feedspot: https://blog.feedspot.com/mental_health_podcasts/Order copies of Michelle's book for yourself and friends/family: MAKEUPYOURMINDVisit Michelle's w...
2022-08-1023 minToday's Heartlift with Janell171. 3 Tips for Overcoming a Helpless MindsetSend us a textWhether we recognize it or not, we all have a mindset. To help us both unlock and understand our mindset(s), we welcome Author and LPC-S, Michelle Nietert, to the show. In her newest book, co-authored with Denise Pass, "Make Up Your Mind: Unlock Your Thoughts, Transform Your Life," she offers ten specific mindsets and invites us to examine ours and see which one we might be wearing currently. In this episode, we hone in on a helpless mindset; one that battles apathy and weakness.Links + Resources from this Episode:
2022-08-0341 minToday's Heartlift with Janell170. 3 Reasons Why Marriage Counseling Fails, Part 2Send us a textIn this heart-to-heart conversation with Dr. David Hawkins, author of "Why Marriage Counseling Fails: Is the Problem the Marriage or the Counselor?" and Founder of The Marriage Recovery Center (www.marriagerecoverycenter.com), we talk about some very hard subjects: When should a couple have an intervention? When should they separate? Is there a moment of clarity as to when the marriage seems over? AND MORE.Links + Resources from this Episode: So excited that the podcast has been voted #11 in the Top 100 Mental Health Podcasts on Feedspot: https://blog.feedspot.co...
2022-07-2736 minToday's Heartlift with Janell169. 3 Reasons Marriage Counseling Fails, Part 1Send us a textIn this riveting episode with Dr. David Hawkins, author of "Why Marriage Counseling Fails: Is the Problem the Marriage or the Counselor?" we open a very candid conversation about the work of love and marriage, why marriages fail, and look at "the autopsy of a failed marriage." This is a hard conversation but a very important one, especially in this post-Covid world we are all trying to live in.Links + Resources from this Episode: So excited that the podcast has been voted #11 in the Top 100 Mental Health Podcasts on F...
2022-07-2035 minToday's Heartlift with Janell168. Three Spiritual Steps for Overcoming Paralyzing FearSend us a textHeartlifters, meet Lisa Appelo, author of "Life Can Be Good Again: Putting Your World Back Together After It Falls Apart." I have one word for this conversation: wow. Lisa went to bed one night a happily married woman and mother of seven and woke up a widow and single mom. Her story offers us vital spiritual resilience training and empowers us to overcome our own paralyzing fear. Links + Resources from this Episode: So excited that the podcast has been voted #11 in the Top 100 Mental Health Podcasts on Feedspot: https://bl...
2022-07-0646 minToday's Heartlift with Janell167. 3 Hope-Filled Promises for Those Living with a Mental Health DiagnosisSend us a textAuthor and Pastor Brad Hoef writes, "Mood disorders are a biological condition involving brain chemistry and genetics. They do not arise from character flaws, lack of faith, or poor choices. Mood disorders are medical conditions. There is no more shame than if we had diabetes, arthritis, or any other medical ailment." In Part 2, Pastor Brad shares candidly about his own diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder and how his journey led him to start FRESH HOPE, a non-profit organization committed to guiding and supporting those with a mental illness (and their families) to find hope...
2022-06-2937 minToday's Heartlift with Janell166. Soak in Living Water: A Summer 2022 Weekend Edition with Michele McCarthy, Part 2Send us a textIn Part 1 we heard author Michele McCarthy share her very amazing journey towards knowing and experiencing the power of the Holy Spirit in her life. In Part 2, Michele shares her physical struggles and brings a rare physical condition to light: MTHFR, an enzyme that breaks down the amino acid homocysteine, which causes an inability of our body to convert the B9 vitamin, Folate. This inability can cause mental and emotional disorders, such as depression. This conversation is SO CRITICAL because so often our mental and emotional health is a direct result of something...
2022-06-2731 minToday's Heartlift with Janell165. Soak in Living Water: A Summer 2022 Weekend Edition with Michele McCarthySend us a textThis summer, Sundays are being dedicated to our spiritual formation and growth. This week, Michele McCarthy, author of "Shattered, Stirred, and Shaken: Living the Book of Acts, My Journey From Here to There," shares her inspirational journey of faith and how she came to know the Holy Spirit in an unusual, yet beautiful, way.Links + Resources from this Episode: So excited that the podcast has been voted #11 in the Top 100 Mental Health Podcasts on Feedspot: https://blog.feedspot.com/mental_health_podcasts/Order Michele's book: SHATTERED, STIRRED, AND S...
2022-06-2727 minToday's Heartlift with Janell164. 3 Ways to Live Well Despite a Mental Health Diagnosis, Part 1Send us a textAuthor and Pastor, Brad Hoef, writes, "Too often mental health 'recovery' focuses on learning to cope and survive with your mental illness; which leads to helplessness, hopelessness, and a sense of permanent loss. Persistent mental health challenges destroy one's self-confidence and rob you of the joy of living." In Part 1, Janell and Brad open an important conversation about how to recognize, identify, and help someone struggling with mental illness. He shares some of his own signs and signals that got misinterpreted and even heralded as "endless energy." Pastor Brad is open about his...
2022-06-2338 minToday's Heartlift with Janell162. 3 Strategic Ways to Manage Your OverwhelmSend us a textManaging overwhelm has become part of our daily heart work, it seems. Today, we welcome Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, bestselling author of Trauma Stewardship and The Age of Overwhelm, to the show. Laura asks this heart-searching question, "What conditions have you created...what conditions do you have in place...to be able to metabolize the overwhelming "nervous energy" locked and stuck inside your nervous system?" Her story, wisdom, and sage advice invite us to discern the answer and move forward into the future freedom we all seek. Heartlifters, grab a cup of something...
2022-06-1538 minToday's Heartlift with Janell161. 3 Practices that Help Us Find PeaceSend us a textPeace is often very misunderstood. We think it is based on having the perfect circumstances or the perfect marriage or the perfect children. Ann Swindell, author of "The Path to Peace: Experiencing God's Comfort When You Are Overwhelmed," brilliantly shares how true peace is based on three vital practices.Links + Resources from this Episode: So excited that the podcast has been voted #11 in the Top 100 Mental Health Podcasts on Feedspot: https://blog.feedspot.com/mental_health_podcasts/Order Ann Swindell's book: PATHTOPEACEFollow Ann on Instagram: ANNSWINDELLVisit Ann's fabulous w...
2022-06-0846 minToday's Heartlift with Janell160. Three Ways to Develop Conversational IntelligenceSend us a textWelcome Conversation Intelligence Coach and Author, Patti Reed, to the show. Patti is helping us transition from "telling and selling and yelling" to "asking, listening, and responding," in our conversations with our teens and young adults, specifically, but her wisdom lends to all of our conversations. Tucked in the middle is a beautiful meditation that helps us (1) build concentration muscles (2) calm the sympathetic nervous system (3) develop emotion regulation and distress tolerance.Links + Resources from this Episode: So excited that the podcast has been voted #11 in the Top 100 Mental Health P...
2022-06-0144 minToday's Heartlift with Janell159. Three Ways to Unclutter Your SoulSend us a textWhat does it mean to "unclutter your soul?" In today's episode, Trina McNeilly, author of "Unclutter Your Soul: Overcome What Overwhelms You," gives us three strategic ways to manage the overwhelming stressors that we face each and every day. Within minutes of waking up, we hear news of tragic proportions. What do we do with the flooding of emotion that immediately sends our hearts spinning? Trina invites us to take a soul inventory in order to overcome what overwhelms us.Links + Resources from this Episode: Read the show notes: JANELL R...
2022-05-2546 minToday's Heartlift with Janell158. Four Barriers to HealingSend us a textIn our Season 9 opener, we welcome Amy Julia Becker, author of "To Be Made Well: An Invitation to Wholeness, Healing, and Hope." As a mom of three, Amy Julia talks to us about her own journey toward wholeness, which began in the adolescence of her life. Her candor, wisdom, and understanding of the mind-body connection invite us to take the necessary time to consider our mental and emotional health. We are mothers, a maternal presence in the world, yes, but we are also beloved beings and Amy Julia asks us to "surrender to...
2022-05-2043 minToday's Heartlift with Janell157. Final Thoughts on Season 8: ReimaginingSend us a textSeason 8 invited us to REIMAGINE some very important issues and areas in our lives, each a component of our three-fold cord of a healthy sense of self, healthy behavior patterns, and healthy communication skills. Reimagine invites us to form a new conception and to create or imagine a new way of doing things. We've covered a whole lot of ground. What are you reimagining in your life right now?Links + Resources from this Episode: Read the show notes: JANELL RARDONGrab a copy of Janell’s newest book: STRONGEREVERYDAYSubscribe to Janell’s pod...
2022-05-1122 minToday's Heartlift with Janell155. Reimagining a Life Awakened by the Holy SpiritSend us a textPope John Paul II wisely encouraged, "Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.” I love that phrase, "We are the Easter people." Welcome to this special two-part Easter season message with Becky Thompson, author of "God So Close: Experience a Life Awakened By His Spirit." Spiritual formation is a tenet of our community and today, Becky and Janell invite us to reimagine a life awakened by the Holy Spirit. As you listen, ask yourself, "Who is the Holy Spirit, and do I live a li...
2022-04-2040 minToday's Heartlift with Janell154. Reimagining What-If Questions, Part 2Send us a textA big welcome back to Nicole Zaskowski, author of "What If It's Wonderful: Release Your Fears, Choose Joy, and Find the Courage to Celebrate." In Part 2, Janell and Nicole continue their conversation about interrupting catastrophic thinking and replacing that by finding the courage to celebrate. There seems no greater moment to find strength than the week we make our way towards the Easter Hallelujah!Links + Resources from this Episode: Learn more about Nicole's book and work: NICOLE ZASKOWSKIWatch Nicole's podcast interview with Nicole Unice: CULTIVATING AN EXPECTANT HEARTFind Nicole on I...
2022-04-1340 minToday's Heartlift with Janell153. Reimagining What-If Questions, Part 1Send us a textHave you ever heard yourself saying, "This is too good to be true" or perhaps, "I've had it good for so long, when is it my turn to have something bad happen?" Or, do you find yourself waiting for "the other shoe to drop"? Today, we engage this mindset of what-ifs with Author Nicole Zasowski, LMFT, and discuss her newest book, "What If It's Wonderful: Release Your Fears, Choose Joy, and Find the Courage to Celebrate." This conversation will leave you reflective and challenge you to shift your what-if thinking to
2022-04-0630 minToday's Heartlift with Janell152. Reimagining MiraclesSend us a textWe are in the Lenten season and walking towards the celebration of Easter. Heartlifters, welcome back Becky Murray, Founder and President of One by One. In today’s conversation, Becky shares a heart-wrenching story about a very real encounter with a miracle. Links + Resources from this Episode: Learn more about Becky’s story: Becky Murray's WebsiteListen to Janell’s first conversation with Becky: EMBRACE THE JOURNEYGrab a copy of Janell’s newest book: STRONGEREVERYDAYSubscribe to Janell’s podcast and newsletter: SUBSCRIBEVisit Janell’s site: MORE RESOURCESFollow Janell on Instagram: @janellrardon
2022-03-3043 minToday's Heartlift with Janell151. Reimagining the Mind-Body Connection, Part 2Send us a textHave you ever stopped to consider how your body talks to you? In Part I of this two-part conversation with Author Ronda Barney, we explored how to reimagine the mind-body connection. In Part 2, Ronda continues leading and guiding us to listen to our bodies and allow them to help shape our journey through life.Links + Resources from this Episode: Pre-order Ronda’s new book: DEAR SUSANLearn more from Dr. Bessel van der Kolk: THE BODY KEEPS THE SCOREGrab a copy of Janell’s newest book: STRONGEREVERYDAYSubscribe to Janell’s podcast and new...
2022-03-2330 minToday's Heartlift with Janell150. Reimagining the Mind-Body ConnectionSend us a textHeartlifters, welcome Ronda Barney, author of "Dear Susan: Letters of Comfort, Hope, and Peace for Women Facing a Life-Changing Illness." As an LCSW and Registered Dietician, Ronda is trained in the mind-body connection and for most of her life was the picture of health, until, several debilitating, mysterious diagnoses changed the way she moved through life. Today, in Part 1 of our 2-part conversation, Ronda reads one of her letters, "Your Body is For You," and gently guides us to reimagine our relationship to the mind-body connection.Links + Resources from this Episode:
2022-03-1739 minToday's Heartlift with Janell149. Reimagining Our Personal Sense of AgencySend us a textAuthors Napper and Rao write, "We exist in a buzz of worry that we're not doing what we're meant to do, and the anxiety we feel, in turn, makes it difficult to get things done, creating a spiral of inaction. What we need is more agency: the ability to cut through all of what pulls at us, find emotional and physical balance, think more clearly and advocate for ourselves so we can take a course of action that makes sense. With agency, we can feel more in command of our lives." Today, we...
2022-03-0934 minToday's Heartlift with Janell148. Reimagining Our Places and SpacesSend us a textBefore listening today, take a few moments and look around at the place and space in which you currently find yourself. Activate your senses and notice. How do you feel in that place and space? Today's guest, Author Christie Purifoy, writes, “I want to observe the ordinary things of earth—the moon, the stars, the rainbows, even the yellow leaves of the old cherry trees—and receive their messages. To hear them say what every weary traveler, every earnest seeker, longs to hear. Welcome home.” Links + Resources from this Episode:
2022-03-0346 minToday's Heartlift with Janell147. Reimagining Your OverwhelmSend us a textPoet Mary Oliver poses a piercing question in her well-known poem, "The Summer Day." She asks, "What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" Heartlifter, there is a theme arising in Season 8, "Reimagine." Each guest, each conversation, inviting us to reimagine different aspects of life: the role of prayer, the impact of social media, the power of being seen, the effect our behaviors have on others, the need to detach in all the right ways, and the capacity to be intimate in our closest relationships. In today's...
2022-02-2345 minToday's Heartlift with Janell118. Speak Healing Words to Your Future, Part 1Send us a textWe continue our heartlifting journey through Janell's newest book, "Stronger Every Day: 9 Tools for an Emotionally Healthy You," and dig deep into Tool 5, "Speak Healing Words to Your Future." With candor and grace, Janell opens her heart and shares a Jesus encounter her senior year in college that changed everything. Until now, she's kept this close to heart, but in writing the book, felt compelled it was necessary to open the closet door of her heart and let the skeletons out. As George Bernard Shaw once said, "If you can't get rid of...
2021-08-2537 minToday's Heartlift with Janell112. The Power of Living a Meaningful LifeSend us a textWelcome to our Heartlifting journey through Janell's new book, "Stronger Every Day: 9 Tools for an Emotionally Healthy You." In this episode, Janell introduces TOOL 1, "Step Across the Threshold of Meaningfulness." It might seem a bit strange to start a transformative journey with "the purusit of meaningfulness," but Janell shares her "why" and invites you to a life filled with FLOW and FULLNESS. Support the showBegin Your Heartlifter's Journey: Support the show: Your Donation Matters Leave a review and rate the podcast: WRITE A REVIEW Make a tax-deductible d...
2021-06-3041 minToday's Heartlift with Janell110. The Power of a Good ResetSend us a textWelcome to Season 6, Episode 2 where Janell flies solo and invites us all to catch our breath! Someone once said, "Life is lived forward and understood backwards," and that is what this episode is all about. As a teacher for most of her life, Janell values the power of a good review. Seasons 4 & 5 have brought great thinkers, leaders, and remarkable heartlifters to us. They have shared valuable wisdom, offered beautiful meditations and mindful moments, and given us a feast of words to savor. In this episode, Janell "re-minds" us of the great value of...
2021-06-1642 minToday's Heartlift with Janell103. Will You Get in the Wheelbarrow?Send us a textWhile recording the podcast session, "Becoming Stronger through the Unexplainable," author and Bible Teacher, Erica Wiggenhorn, shared an old story about Niagra Falls, a man, and a wheelbarrow. She added a few details of her own and the story pierced Janell's heart. It was a word in due season and exactly what Janell (and listeners) needed to hear. Per Janell's request, Erica willingly and lovingly recorded this meditative exercise so that we could listen to it, again and again. Whenever you are facing "the unexplainable," grab your headphones, find a quiet spot, and...
2021-04-2814 minToday's Heartlift with Janell73. Welcome to Today's Heartlift with JanellSend us a textWelcome to Today's Heartlift with Janell! As a professional heartlifter, aka trauma-informed therapist and author, it brings me great joy to extend the traditional "therapeutic" practice to this podcast space. Together, we'll rewrite any and all negative narratives and stories and begin living our very best God-breathed lives. Put on your growth mindset and get ready to experience the power of a heartlift. Support the showBegin Your Heartlifter's Journey: Support the show: Your Donation Matters Leave a review and rate the podcast: WRITE A REVIEW Make a t...
2020-10-2130 minToday's Heartlift with Janell51. Life TransitionsSend us a textTom Stoppard writes, "Look on every exit being an entrance to somewhere else." You know, when God closes a door, He opens a window. In today's episode, Janell Rardon opens a conversation about those life transitions that can be really challenging. Support the showBegin Your Heartlifter's Journey: Support the show: Your Donation Matters Leave a review and rate the podcast: WRITE A REVIEW Make a tax-deductible donation through Heartlift International Visit and subscribe to Heartlift Central on Substack. This is our new online meeting place for Heartlifters w...
2019-11-0834 minToday's Heartlift with Janell49. Awakening to Our True SelfSend us a textIrish Poet, John O'Donohue, writes, "“Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold you back from striving toward the summit of fulfillment.” In today's episode, "Awakening to Our True Self," Janell Rardon talks about the power of awakening to our true self, or as said in our...
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