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Today's Heartlift with Janell
Janell Rardon
355 episodes
4 days ago
Send us a text Standing at the threshold of a new year, we ask a hard, freeing question: what is mine to hold, and what is mine to let go? We look back on a year of conversations that shaped our hearts, then lean into a fresh practice of healthy detachment that protects, rather than weakens, secure attachment. With Karen Casey’s Let Go Now as a guide, we explore how choosing to act instead of react creates the quiet where love grows—and how stepping away from chaos can be the most compassiona...
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Send us a text Standing at the threshold of a new year, we ask a hard, freeing question: what is mine to hold, and what is mine to let go? We look back on a year of conversations that shaped our hearts, then lean into a fresh practice of healthy detachment that protects, rather than weakens, secure attachment. With Karen Casey’s Let Go Now as a guide, we explore how choosing to act instead of react creates the quiet where love grows—and how stepping away from chaos can be the most compassiona...
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Christianity
Religion & Spirituality,
Society & Culture,
Health & Fitness,
Mental Health,
Relationships
Episodes (20/355)
Today's Heartlift with Janell
353. How Learning “What Is Mine To Hold” Set Me Free
Send us a text Standing at the threshold of a new year, we ask a hard, freeing question: what is mine to hold, and what is mine to let go? We look back on a year of conversations that shaped our hearts, then lean into a fresh practice of healthy detachment that protects, rather than weakens, secure attachment. With Karen Casey’s Let Go Now as a guide, we explore how choosing to act instead of react creates the quiet where love grows—and how stepping away from chaos can be the most compassiona...
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1 week ago
52 minutes

Today's Heartlift with Janell
352. A Christmas Eve Meditation
Send us a text A Christmas Eve Meditation for You, Mom The day is loud, the list is long, and yet a quiet song can steady the heart. We pause for a short Christmas Eve heartlift, reading Mary’s Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55, The Voice translation) and letting its courage seep into the places where we feel stretched thin. This isn’t soft-focus sentiment. Mary’s prayer names a great reversal: the proud scattered, the lowly lifted, the hungry filled. That vision speaks to the kitchen, the table, and ...
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2 weeks ago
5 minutes

Today's Heartlift with Janell
351. St. Nicholas's Secret to Finding Rest in a Weary World
Send us a text A cave near Bethlehem. Stone, straw, and a light that still reaches us. We follow Saint Nicholas’s quiet pilgrimage and find our own footing in a season when headlines blur, and hearts grow tired. The story of Emmanuel, God with us, becomes more than a lyric—it turns into a lifeline you can hold, a place you can enter, a presence you can trust when love feels heavy and the calendar won’t slow down. We open with Nicholas’s years near Beit Jala, exploring how a humble cave shape...
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3 weeks ago
31 minutes

Today's Heartlift with Janell
Loving One Another: A Meditative Reading Of 1 John 4:7–21
Send us a text What if love didn’t start with your effort but with God’s presence moving toward you? This guided, unhurried reading of 1 John 4:7–21 explores a radical claim—God is love—and shows how that truth can steady anxious hearts, transform relationships, and make faith visible in everyday life. We walk through the text line by line, hearing how the sending of Jesus redefines love as concrete and self-giving. Together we consider why living in love means living in God, how the Spirit ...
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1 month ago
4 minutes

Today's Heartlift with Janell
350. Quiet Gifts: Saint Nicholas and Loving Others Well
Send us a text "Understanding is the essence of love" (Thich Nhat Hanh). The quiet before wonder can change everything. We move through Advent by stepping into the story of Saint Nicholas—not the myth, but the young man whose hidden generosity saved daughters from slavery and modeled a love that protects dignity. From that spark, we explore how real love is trained, not assumed: a discipline of attention that seeks to understand first, then act with compassion, joy, and freedom. I share why ...
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1 month ago
47 minutes

Today's Heartlift with Janell
349. St. Nicholas and the Practice of Generous Love
Send us a text A storm-tossed sky lantern lands in a front yard with a daughter’s message to her dad, and a simple response turns into a global moment of shared grief and hope. That story becomes our gateway into the real Saint Nicholas—an early Christian bishop who noticed the vulnerable, met practical needs with courage, and quietly changed lives in a collapsing empire. We sit down with author and screenwriter Matt Mikalatos to explore his devotional, Praying with Saint Nicholas, and the s...
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1 month ago
49 minutes

Today's Heartlift with Janell
348. A Guided Prayer To Break Small Thinking And Receive Bigger Blessings
Send us a text Sharing a Thanksgiving Prayer/Meditation of Gratitude: Ask for Something Greater. Matthew 7:7 heralds a beautiful message: "Ask and keep on asking, and it will be given to you; seek and keep on seeking, and you will find; knock and keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you." This week's question: "What if your prayers are too small for the life you’re meant to live?" In this focused, six-minute guided meditation, we slow down, breathe, and move from timid requests to...
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1 month ago
5 minutes

Today's Heartlift with Janell
347. Do You Need a Little Empty in Your Life?
Send us a text "Learning to say no to good things so we can experience better things may sound easy, but it can feel really hard - hard to know when it's the thing to do, and hard to do it. Yet there's a healthy vulnerability that comes with saying no." -Dr. Arianna Molloy, Healthy Calling: From Toxic Burnout to Sustainable Work Silence and emptiness emerge as surprising allies. Drawing on Thomas Moore, we treat emptiness not as failure but as space for meaning and healthy detachment. Emptine...
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1 month ago
32 minutes

Today's Heartlift with Janell
346. Rest as a Practice, Not a Luxury
Send us a text "You're allowed to stop." In this conversation, I explore rest not as a luxury or reward, but as a sacred practice woven into the very heart of creation. We dive a little deeper into Dr. Arianna Molloy's book, "Healthy Calling: From Toxic Burnout to Sustainable Work." If God rested, why is it so hard for us? We'll discuss the pressures that drive us to perform and strive, the stories we've inherited about productivity and worth, and what it means to honor our humanity by slowin...
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2 months ago
43 minutes

Today's Heartlift with Janell
345. Humility is Not Self-Erasure
Send us a text Have you ever been asked, "What is your calling?" In Episode 344, Dr. Arianna Molloy, author of "Healthy Calling: From Toxic Burnout to Sustainable Work," shares her research and helps us answer that question from a beautiful place of understanding and maturity. In this episode, we reframe calling as a living relationship with God, grounded in community and guided by humility, rest, and gratitude. I also unveil a new monthly format that helps us metabolize ideas, practice spiri...
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2 months ago
40 minutes

Today's Heartlift with Janell
344. From Toxic Burnout to Sustainable Work
Send us a text Dr. Arianna Molloy, author of "Healthy Calling: From Toxic Burnout to Sustainable Work," shares on "calling burnout" and why it hurts more than standard exhaustion. Regular burnout says, "I don’t like what I’m doing anymore." Calling burnout says, "I don’t know who I am anymore." To find our way back, she offers a practical, research-backed posture of healthy humility: know your strengths and weaknesses without being ruled by either; live as a learner who isn’t threatened by no...
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2 months ago
49 minutes

Today's Heartlift with Janell
343. How Our Stories Form Our Souls
Send us a text Pull up a chair at the Dim Sum Table and discover why your story—every tender, tangled part—holds real weight. Janell welcomes Jenn Suen Chen, author of Dim Sum and Faith: How Our Stories Form Our Souls, to explore how faith, family history, and formation weave together, not as a self-help checklist but as a lived way of being shaped by Scripture. Jenn introduces a four-part arc for spiritual growth—shaping, undoing, awakening, remaking—and shows why the “undoing” we avoid is ...
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2 months ago
57 minutes

Today's Heartlift with Janell
342. When the Heart Finds Its New Rhythm
Send us a text "A heart out of rhythm has a way of revealing a life out of rhythm." Guided by insights from Tom Rosshirt's Chasing Peace: A Story of Breakdowns, Breakthroughs, and the Spiritual Power of Neuroscience, we explore the connection between breakdowns and breakthroughs. We talk plainly about the difference between happiness tied to outcomes and peace rooted in a state of mind, and we practice language that helps dissolve the ego without erasing identity. From breathwork and bounda...
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2 months ago
18 minutes

Today's Heartlift with Janell
341. What the Book of Job Teaches Us About Trauma, Faith, and Becoming Trusted Listeners
Send us a text In this episode, we explore how trauma reshapes belief, what the ancient story of Job reveals about suffering, and how to become trusted listeners who create safe spaces instead of offering quick fixes. Dr. Michelle K. Keener, author of Comfort in the Ashes: Explorations in the Book of Job to Support Trauma Survivors, gives practical tools for mothers, mentors, and faith communities. Other ideas shared in this conversation: • Trauma is defined as overwhelm beyond normal coping...
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3 months ago
51 minutes

Today's Heartlift with Janell
340. The After Party of the Empty Nest: Mom Isn't Your Only Name
Send us a text The quiet after the last suitcase leaves can feel like a freefall—or a doorway. We lean into that threshold with Kate Battistelli, author of The After Party of the Empty Nest: Mom Isn't Your Only Name, to reframe the empty nest as an after-party —a time to honor the first act of mothering and step into a purposeful, hope-filled second act. Kate shares the heart behind her directive, “Mom is not your only name,” and why your next chapter isn’t smaller—it’s just different, and of...
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3 months ago
49 minutes

Today's Heartlift with Janell
339. Burnout's Secret Language: Completing the Stress Cycle
Send us a text What happens when the warning signals from our bodies become so normalized that we fail to recognize them as distress calls? After experiencing a sudden atrial fibrillation episode that landed me in the emergency room, doctors asked the question that haunted me: "Why did you wait so long to seek help?" The answer was both simple and profound – I had been ignoring my body's desperate attempts to complete stress cycles that had accumulated over the years. This deeply personal ep...
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3 months ago
38 minutes

Today's Heartlift with Janell
339. Ready to Break the Stress Cycle in Your Life?
Send us a text What happens when life throws you not just a curveball, but an ongoing series of challenges with no end in sight? Katie Schnack, author of "Everything Is Not Fine," opens up about her journey through her son Shepherd's diagnosis with a rare medical condition called VACTERL. Rather than offering trite solutions, Katie shares how she's learned to hold both joy and sorrow simultaneously. She describes beautiful moments of divine reassurance, like when her three-year-old daughter s...
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3 months ago
49 minutes

Today's Heartlift with Janell
338. Living Like a Guide Dog: The Art of Being Brave with Michael Hingson
Send us a text *Visiting the archives today in commemoration of 9/11. k Welcome, New York Times Bestseller Michael Hingson, survivor of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, and his guide dog Roselle, as they share profound wisdom about bravery, overcoming adversity, and moving forward with faith as we celebrate our 300th episode. The conversation takes us through the powerful lessons Michael has learned from each of his guide dogs, from Squire to Alamo. These 11 principles form a roadmap for ...
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4 months ago
1 hour 2 minutes

Today's Heartlift with Janell
337. The Sacred Art of Slowing Down: Finding Relief from Rushed Living
Send us a text Licensed Counselor, A. C. Seipel, author of The Sacred Art of Slowing Down: Find Relief from Rushed Living, Soothe Your Soul, and Restore Wholeness Within, shares a transformative approach to finding relief from rushed living by embracing the sacred art of slowing down and reconnecting with our embodied selves. Through exploring autonomy, nervous system regulation, and ancient contemplative practices, she offers practical wisdom for tending to our forgotten inner worlds. Pre-o...
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4 months ago
59 minutes

Today's Heartlift with Janell
336. The Untold Power of Women's Leadership in Scripture
Send us a text The story of the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well is familiar to many, but what if everything we thought we knew about her was filtered through centuries of misinterpretation? Dr. Caryn Reeder joins us for a paradigm-shifting conversation that challenges traditional views of this remarkable biblical figure. For generations, sermons have painted the Samaritan woman as a sexual sinner—a prostitute, a fallen woman. Yet as Dr. Reeder points out, the text of John 4 never once mentio...
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4 months ago
49 minutes

Today's Heartlift with Janell
Send us a text Standing at the threshold of a new year, we ask a hard, freeing question: what is mine to hold, and what is mine to let go? We look back on a year of conversations that shaped our hearts, then lean into a fresh practice of healthy detachment that protects, rather than weakens, secure attachment. With Karen Casey’s Let Go Now as a guide, we explore how choosing to act instead of react creates the quiet where love grows—and how stepping away from chaos can be the most compassiona...