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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

Let Your Heart Speak
True self, when violated, will always resist us, sometimes at great cost, holding our lives in check until we honor its truth. Parker J. Palmer Let Your Heart Speak What Does It Mean To Let Your Heart Speak? Learning to Honor Our Truth Ask: Am I skimping on my inner...

Sorting Through the Voices in Our Heads
There are some voices that do not simply drift through; they are more deeply ingrained. So much so that we make the mistake of thinking that the voices and thoughts are, in fact, us. But, as we were reminded from classic spirituality, we are not our thoughts, we have...

Uncover the Hidden You
"Not surprisingly, women are conditioned toward an external locus of control, while men are conditioned toward an internal locus of control. Women are taught to look outside of themselves for solutions. And, I would argue, this is particularly true in faith...

3 Reasons Marriage Counseling Fails
There is no need to minimize problems. Suffering alone or in silence is a choice you make. It's really true that in one way or another, we do all need help. But first, we must start with the premise that we're all under-trained and ill-prepared, feel undeserving, and...

3 Practices that Help Us Find Peace
"None of us sign some supernatural contract for our dream life, but most of us have some vision for the kind of life we want to live. What I felt that night was not only sadness, but anger--and underneath that, disappointment at how my life was unfolding. I wasn't...

Develop Conversational Intelligence
"I read an article recently on how anxiety, fear, and stress impact the brain. The amygdala, an almond-shaped section of the brain, is responsible for a chemical response when negative feelings occur. A simple way to combat these uncomfortable feelings such as anxiety...

3 Ways to Unclutter Your Soul
Identifying our soul clutter is not anything to be ashamed of. Before we can progress in uncluttering, we must first pay atttention to the pain and identify the problem. Paying attention can be a slow process easily discounted by impatience."Trina McNeilly, author of...

Messy Hope: Overcoming Anxiety, Depression, & Suicide Ideation
Do you feel seen? In this episode, “The Power of Being Seen,” Author and Therapist, Dr. Chinwe Williams, talks about her new book, “Seen.”

Unhurried in Order to Heal Our Hearts
Sweet Like Jasmine takes readers on Gray’s heart-breaking journey of faith after, at age 39, finding her long-forgotten birth certificate that sparked something that could not be ignored. She set out and uncovered family secrets found her childhood home and the father...

The Power of Smell to Heal Trauma
When a child shuts down his painful emotional side, he also loses the ability to express his joyous side. Emotions are a whole. With anger comes the ability to express delight; with sadness comes the ability to express lightheartedness. This is the breadth of emotion...
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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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