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
202. Spiritual Amnesia: Have I Forgotten the Blessings of God?
We 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, …
201. Translating Our Past: Finding Meaning in Family Ancestry, Genetic Clues, and Generational Trauma
Have 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 b…
200. Let's Talk About Psychiatry
We 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 a…
199. Let Your Heart Speak
What 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 fi…
198. Developing a Remarkable Mindset
The world is looking for "a few remarkable people," to shine forth their "remarkability."
Remarkability is a concept I began curating a few years ago. Today, we find out exactly what th…
197. Let's Be Remarkable Tour
A few years ago, I asked myself this question, "What does it mean to be remarkable?"
I desperately wanted to be a woman of influence who positively impacts her spheres of influence with …
196. Looking Forward to 2023
Irish 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 bound…
195. Looking Back at 2022
“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.”
—Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Looking back at 2022 and celebrating our three seasons of great conversations and remarkable guests. Our journ…
194. Developing a Good Day Mindset, Part 2
We 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 Of…
193. Every Day is Going To Be a Good Day, Part 1
We 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…
192. Returning to Childlike Faith in Our Everyday Lives, Part 2
In Part 2, Janell opens with a short "heartlift" on "Fighting the Wind," then continues her remarkable conversation with Rachel Dodge, author of "The Secret Garden Devotional." Rachel s…
191. Returning to Childlike Faith in Our Everyday Lives, Part 1
Rachel 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 ou…
190. Welcoming Liminal Spaces in our Everyday Lives, Part 2
“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 socia…
189. Welcoming Liminal Spaces in our Everyday Lives
As 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 …
188. Learning to Sort Through the Voices in Our Heads, Part 2
What 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 remarkab…
187. Learning to Sort Through the Voices in Our Heads
Maybe 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 Sp…
186. Contemplative Prayer in Our Everyday Lives, Part 2
In 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.…
185. Contemplative Prayer in Our Everyday Lives
Are 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…
184. Everyday Tendencies Toward Feeling Invisible
Have 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…
183. Everyday Prayers of Rest Meditation
Great 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 basicall…