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Recently named 6th in Feedspot’s Top 100 Mental Health Podcasts, Today’s Heartlift invites you to grab a cup of something delicious and listen in on remarkable conversations about faith + mental health issues. In 2025, the podcast is dedicated to specifically helping mothers become emotionally healthy in three strategic areas:
- A healthy sense of self, “Who am I?”
- Healthy behavior patterns, “How Do I Treat Myself & Others?”
- Healthy communication skills, “How Do I Relate to Myself & Others?”
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Latest Podcast Episodes
Letting Go of the Familiar
Q: Why is letting go of the familiar so difficult? Please Support the Show Your generous support helps the show stay AD FREE, which is the way we like it! It's so easy, you can donate right here: THANK YOU IN ADVANCE "Redemption is the act or the state of being...
Letting Go of Fawning
Q: What is Fawning? Support the Show Your generous support helps the show stay AD FREE, which is the way we like it! It's so easy, you can donate right here: THANK YOU IN ADVANCE "We typically think of fight, flight, or freeze as our automatic reactions to threats....
A New Years Meditation
Q: What is mine to hold? What is mine to let go? Support the Show Your generous support helps the show stay AD FREE, which is the way we like it! It's so easy, you can donate right here: THANK YOU IN ADVANCE Two simple questions for the New Year? What is mine to hold?...
A Christmas Eve Meditation for Moms
Mary's Song of Praise: The Magnificat, Luke 1: 46-55 46 And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord,47 and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,48 for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant. For...
Finding Rest in a Weary World
"We follow Saint Nicholas’s quiet pilgrimage and find our own footing in a season when headlines blur, and hearts grow tired. The story of Emmanuel, God with us, becomes more than a lyric—it turns into a lifeline you can hold, a place you can enter, a presence you can...
Loving One Another
"What if love didn't start with your effort but with God's presence moving toward you? This guided, unhurried reading of 1 John 4:7-21 explores a radical claim...God is love...and shows how that truth can steady anxious hearts, transform relationships, and make faith...
Quiet Gifts
“My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.” -Thich Nhat Hanh Q: What are the quiet gifts of loving others well? Support the Show Your generous support helps the show stay AD...
Who is St. Nicholas?
You aren't going to be able to think your way out of fear, because fear is an irrational force. You will have to leap with your heart racing, again and again, until you have carved out a new comfort zone in the arena of your deepest desires. You will have to learn to...
A Guided Prayer to Break Small Thinking
You aren't going to be able to think your way out of fear, because fear is an irrational force. You will have to leap with your heart racing, again and again, until you have carved out a new comfort zone in the arena of your deepest desires. You will have to learn to...
Do You Need a Little Empty in Your Life?
"The healthy no means we took time to consider the long game, the bigger perspective, and we see the value in doing the right thing over the immediate thing. It is much easier to have this kind of vulnerability when we are clear on our boundaries." Dr. Arianna Molloy,...
Rest is Not a Luxury
Humility knows how to take a break. Walking humbly with God means vigilantly guarding and incorporating routine times of rest. Healthy humility recognizes that to function at our best means we need to rest." Dr. Arianna Molloy, Healthy Calling: From Toxic Burnout to...
The Practice of Healthy Humility
The humble person thinks of others, viewing them as those who are made in the image of God. The humble person is not looking to 'people please,' but to please God. In this way, the humble person is not blind to their own strengths, because they are looking to see how...
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Janell Rardon is a wise and generous teacher! She shares so much wisdom, insight and information in each podcast! She’s speaks clearly and from the heart! She is focused, so she covers so much information clearly and effectively. She also honors the time efficiently, which is great blessing for a mom who doesn’t have a lot of time to listen. I’d listen more in the car, but I always want to take notes!
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