Today's Heartlift with Janell

Send us a text There is another new phrase rising during this COVID19 pandemic, "Quarantine Quarrels." Since we're tackling family confict, I thought I'd dive into the whole subject of "quarreling" and the antidote of God's grace.  Support the show Begin Your Heartlifter's Journey: Support the show: Your Donation Matters Leave a review and rate the podcast:...

Send us a text Being a parent is a hard job, especially during this global pandemic. So many things have changed and life is upside down. In this episode, Be a Safe Parent, Janell opens a conversation about how to embrace this time from a posture of humility and grace in order to lead and love yourself, your spouse, and your children from a healthy emotional place. Children need to feel safe, secu...

Send us a text 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 or what or where are you in this story? Do you hear any God-whispers?  Support the show Begin Your Heartlifter's Journey: Support the show: Your Donation Matters Leave a review and rate the podca...

Send us a text 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 point of the day, where everyone disconnects to all things digital and connects to each other. This pandemic is an opportunity to actually develop some life-giving family rhythms, it really is...

Send us a text 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, secure, soothed, and SAFE. In today's episode, we enter a timely message on how to handle family conflict in a healthy, whole way.  Support the show Begin Your Heartlifter's Journey...

Send us a text 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, COVID-19, is inviting us to walk along the hallways of our homes and ask ourselves, "How is our family doing? What can we do better? Do I really know everyone in this family? How can we...

Send us a text 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 obstacles, like this pandemic, we CAN shine like the stars (Daniel 12:3). Janell talks of ways to yield to this empowering challenge in order to move forward in greater ways.  Support the show Begin Your H...

Send us a text 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, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God" (Philippians 4:6, NIV). Today, Janell offers a primer on practicing mindfulness. For meditative practices, see her we...

Send us a text 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 we combine resilience and rest, we find a new powerful emotional health tool called, "RESTILIENCE." Join in and find HOPE and POWER and STRENGTH for all the crazy chaos of this new normal. ...

Send us a text 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 heightened stress and anxiety.  Support the show Begin Your Heartlifter's Journey: Support the show: Your Donation Matters Leave a review and rate the podcast: WRITE A REVIEW Make a tax-deductible do...

Send us a text 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 developing this remarkable capacity of resilience in your life and the life of your family.  Support the show Begin Your Heartlifter's Journey: Support the show: Your Donation Matters Leave a re...

Send us a text 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" emotional health journey, she offers practical advice that will save you from the same mistakes she made in the past.  Support the show Begin Your Heartlifter's Journey: Support the show...

Send us a text 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 conversation about those life transitions that can be really challenging.  Support the show Begin Your Heartlifter's Journey: Support the show: Your Donation Matters Leave a review and rate t...

Send us a text 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, even those that are suppressed and unexpressed, have physical effects. Unexpressed emotions tend to stay in the body like small ticking time bombs—they are illnesses in incubation."  Support...

Send us a text 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 you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold you back from striving toward t...

Send us a text 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 a false self is formed. Janell reflects on her own personal development and answers the "why" behind taking on a false sense of self. Sometimes it is a matter of survival.  Suppor...

Send us a text 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 emotional health and wellness. In this first episode, she reflects on being "born an empath." What is empathy?  Support the show Begin Your Heartlifter's Journey: Support the sh...

Send us a text 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 words to God, self, and others.  Support the show Begin Your Heartlifter's Journey: Support the show: Your Donation Matters Leave a review and rate the podcast: WRITE A REVIEW Make a tax-deductible...

Send us a text 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?" Without a doubt, that "muzzle" makes life really complicated. Today on the show, Janell opens up a much-needed conversation about healthy assertive...

Send us a text 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?  Support the show Begin Your Heartlifter's Journey: Support the show: Your Donation Matters Leave a review and rate the podcast: WRITE A REVIEW Make a tax-deductible donation through Heartlift International Vi...

Send us a text 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 conversation about the tension between acceptance and accountability.  Support the show Begin Your Heartlifter's Journey: Support the show: Your Donation Matters Leave a review and rate the podcast: WRITE...

Send us a text 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, you can move from highly stressed or anxious to a state of calm. How? By using therapeutic, strategic, essential oils from Young Living. Aroma Freedom Technique is a revolutionary healing modality tha...

Send us a text In this short 3-episode mini-series, Janell Rardon shares how secure attachment and attunement make every relationship in your life, better.  Support the show Begin Your Heartlifter's Journey: Support the show: Your Donation Matters Leave a review and rate the podcast: WRITE A REVIEW Make a tax-deductible donation through Heartlift International Visit and subscribe to Heartlift...

Send us a text Consider these three questions: (1) Am I ready to be fully seen and known? (2) Am I ready to feel safe enough in my relationship(s) to be my truest self? (3) Am I ready to be fully human, yet fully capable of receiving God's love and grace in my life and relationships? In Episode 18, Janell offers her thoughts on the power of possessing secure attachment and how that offers eac...

Send us a text Actions SPEAK louder than words. In today's episode, we look at this important question, "Why do I act the way I act?" It isn't always an easy question to answer, as often we are led by our "subconscious" or "hidden" belief systems, learned as children. Depending on our family of origin or childhood development, we may or may not be acting out...