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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

Seeing Resurrection is No Small Thing
"We always want to honor the pace of our bodies, remembering that trust is built, the internal relationship will strengthen and over time will be open to more connection." Aundi Kolber, Take What You Need Seeing Resurrection is No Small Thing with Aundi Kolber Share...

Helping Families in Crisis
"Beyond blood ties, the church family is the spiritual family that contributes profoundly to the mosaic of our lives." -Jennifer S. Ripley, Ministering to Families Helping Families in Crisis with Jennifer L. Ripley "No one enters the world without a family," writes...

Navigating Loss & Grief in Trying Times
"Thought my world had ended, the world hadn't. My life hadn't. I decided that if I had to be here, eventually I was going to find a way to enjoy my time here. I couldn't go on hurting the way I was. That meant I had to create a new life - one without my husband,...

The Dark Night of the Soul & Grief
""Sometimes the dark nights of life and faith have strange gifts. Conversely, we find ourselves free from the superficial in our lives. We discover peace and the assurance that we are loved. And we experience a deeper, more honest relationship with the God we found in...

Body-First Healing
"Just as your body knows how to digest and metabolize food, it also knows how to metabolize and process emotions and sensations. It's important to note here that it takes the body an average of ninety seconds to move through a feeling. In this case, maybe as you read...

Turn Down the Noise
"For many of us, it wasn't until the pandemic prompted worldwide lockdowns that we noticed the noise. It was only once the traffic on the roads and in the air ceased that we began to notice the birdsong. The cheerful whistles and peeps from these tiny creatures...

Penny Preaches: God’s Gifts & Gender Roles
"It's hard to be what you can't see. For centuries, churches have tried fulfilling the Great Commission with half the team on the bench. Is it time we normalized girls seeing themselves in leadership roles?" -Rob Dixon, co-author of Penny Preaches Half the Team on the...

The Radical Practice of Relaxation
"Noticing stress can be as simple as having an awareness that something just isn't right, feels off, unpleasant, you're not where you want to be, or you don't feel how you want to feel. Noticing can take time if you're dealing with thoughts, feelings, and ideas that...

Baking as a Spiritual Practice
"Bakers can commit their entire lives to learning the craft of bread and still find new nuances of flavor and texture every time they bake. This simultaneous simplicity and complexity is, in many ways, much like the life of faith."-Kendall Vanderslice Q: What do the...

Do You Know How Much God Loves You?
One of the best ways to being discerning God's personal love for you is to meditate on Jesus' parables. Start with his three parables in Luke 15. They show us that God is deeply interested in each one of us, even when we have messed up. ― Trevor Hudson Q: Do You Know...
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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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