Today's Heartlift with Janell
Sometimes the story we tell ourselves is not really true. Sometimes the story others tell about us is not really true. On "Today's Heartlift with Janell," Author, Trauma-informed, board-certified marriage and family specialist, and Professional Heartlifter, Janell Rardon, opens conversations about how emotional health and mental fitness effects absolutely every area of our lives. When we possess and practice healthy, strong, resilient emotional health practices, life is so much better. Read Janell's newest book, "Stronger Every Day: 9 Tools for an Emotionally Healthy You."
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 338
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
61. A Meditative Lectio Divina from Matthew 26
In this Lectio Divina reading from Matthew 26:36-46, Janell invites you to listen to this passage and imagine yourself right there. What perspective are you taking in this passage? Who …
60. Create a Hush Hour
In Part 2 of Healthy Family Conflict, Janell continues the conversation about establishing a new rhythm in this new normal of Covid-19, especially establishing a "HUSH HOUR," at some po…
59. Create a Safe Home
In this special PANDEMIC series, "The Hallways of Home," Janell opens up a conversation about creating a home environment in which every member of the family feels seen, heard, loved, s…
58. Create Healthy Families
What do forests and families have in common? Wait until you hear. Today launches our new series, "The Hallways of Home," and Janell opens a conversation about how this global pandemic, …
57. Three Secrets of a Remarkable Life, Pt. 4
This special edition episode finishes our conversation about three secrets to living a remarkable life and being a remarkable person. When faced with insurmountable challenges and obsta…
56. What is Mindfulness?
One highly effective and deeply rewarding emotional health tool is mindfulness. Jesus taught his followers how to be mindful, "Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, …
55. Three Secrets of a Remarkable Life, Pt. 3
In light of the COVID-19 Crisis, this special edition of the podcast opens a conversation up about building resilience, learning how to store rest in our souls, and then today, how when…
54. Three Secrets of a Remarkable Life, Pt. 2
In today's episode, Janell returns to a subject near and dear to every one of us: REST. She offers four intentional practices that help us create rest + resilience in times of heightene…
53. Three Secrets of a Remarkable Life
Resilience is a primary tenet of living a remarkable life. It simply implies that we bounce back from really tough situations. In today's episode, Janell opens a conversation about deve…
52. Reflections on Regret and Shame
In this final episode of the REFLECTIONS mini-series, Janell opens a conversation about regret and shame that you don't want to miss. As Janell reflects on her own "decades-long" emotio…
51. Life Transitions
Tom 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 conversatio…
50. Your Body Keeps the Score
Our bodies will speak to us. Symptoms often serve as messengers. Are we listening or are we looking for quick fixes? Former Miss America, Marilyn Van M. Derbur, writes, "All emotions, e…
49. Awakening to Our True Self
Irish 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…
48. Forming a False Self
In AD 500, Augustine wrote in Confessions, “How can you draw close to God when you are far from your own self?” What is "the self?" In this episode, Forming a False Self, we look at how…
47. Reflections on Empathy
Today begins a new mini-series, "Reflections," in which Author and Board Certified Life Coach, Janell Rardon, celebrates a milestone birthday by reflecting back on her own journey of em…
46. Healthy Assertiveness, Part 2
Healthy assertiveness is a core communication skill. How do we speak up in a healthy, life-giving way? Using the acronym, V.O.I.C.E., Janell empowers your voice to speak life-giving wor…
45. Healthy Assertiveness
Have you ever been told, "to be quiet?" Has your voice ever been shut down by the "powers that be?" Did you grow up in an authoritarian system where you were to be "seen" and "not heard…
44. Why is Accountability Important to Our Relationships?
In this episode, we continue the conversation about the tension between acceptance and accountability. What does it mean to be in an accountable relationship with others?
43. Why is Acceptance Important to Our Relationships?
When we move through life from a stance of acceptance, we offer everyone in our sphere of influence love and grace, not judgment and rigidity. In this conversation, we begin a conversat…
42. Aroma Reset: The Peace Edition
Certified Practitioner of Aroma Freedom Technique (AFT), Janell Rardon, guides you through the gentle, effective, emotional health tool, Aroma Reset: Peace Edition. In just 60 seconds, …