The Heartlifter Way

Janell Rardon
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Welcome to The Heartlifter Way—a gentle path back to yourself. Hosted by award-winning author Janell Rardon, this podcast is a calm, reflective space where healing begins not with pressure or perfection, but with presence, awareness, and grace. Rooted in a somatic, mind-body approach, each episode invites you to reconnect your thoughts, feelings, and body—learning to move from overwhelm and anxiety into a steadier, more grounded way of living. Through gentle teachings on nervous system regulation, emotional healing, and embodied awareness, you’ll begin to live The Heartlifter Way.

  1. 16. What Keeps Returning? Freedom, Discernment, and The Gentle Invitations of God

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    16. What Keeps Returning? Freedom, Discernment, and The Gentle Invitations of God

    As we celebrate the Fourth of July and America's 250th anniversary, what if we paused to ask a different kind of question? What keeps returning? In this episode of The Heartlifter Way, Janell explores how God often speaks not through dramatic explanations but through gentle repetition—a recurring longing, a meaningful metaphor, a tiny oak tree with its acorn still attached. Discover how paying attention to what keeps returning can deepen your discernment, expand your capacity to notice God's invitations, and gently shape who you are becoming. Because sometimes the invitation that keeps returning is the one your heart has been preparing to receive all along. 🌿 Connect with Janell Rardon & Heartlift Wellness on Substack Website: ⁠⁠⁠janellrardon.com⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@janellrardon⁠⁠⁠Substack: ⁠⁠⁠@heartliftwellness⁠⁠⁠YouTube: Heartlift WellnessDownload the "Principles of Discernment" PDF: ⁠⁠Trust What is Taking Shape⁠⁠Download the "Discernment Prayer" to use during our Birth Season: ⁠⁠Prayer PDF⁠Download ⁠"The Three Pots"⁠ Graphic to use during the meditative exercise.Download ⁠"The G.E.N.T.L.E. Path"⁠ PDF

    24 min
  2. 15. Feeling Stuck? You May Be in a Season of Formation

    24 juin

    15. Feeling Stuck? You May Be in a Season of Formation

    Meditative Exercise: The Three Pots Metaphor for Discernment and Growth Have you ever felt stuck, overlooked, or frustrated by a season that seems to lack visible progress? In this episode of The Heartlifter Way, Janell explores the wisdom of three simple terracotta pots—one empty, one sprouting, and one blooming—and how each stage reveals something essential about spiritual growth, discernment, and becoming. Building on Episodes 13 and 14, you'll discover why discernment is the practice of paying attention to God's invitations and how becoming is what happens as we respond to them over time. Through the lens of The Theology of Gentleness, Janell offers a refreshing perspective: what feels like being stuck may actually be a sacred season of preparation and formation. Because the gardener does not love the bloom more than the seed. And every stage belongs. 🌿 Connect with Janell Rardon & Heartlift Wellness on Substack Website: ⁠⁠janellrardon.com⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠@janellrardon⁠⁠Substack: ⁠⁠@heartliftwellness⁠⁠YouTube: Heartlift WellnessDownload the "Principles of Discernment" PDF: ⁠Trust What is Taking Shape⁠Download the "Discernment Prayer" to use during our Birth Season: ⁠Prayer PDFDownload "The Three Pots" Graphic to use during the meditative exercise.Download "The G.E.N.T.L.E. Path" PDF

    36 min
  3. 14. When God Speaks in Metaphors

    17 juin

    14. When God Speaks in Metaphors

    What if God's invitations rarely arrive as explanations? What if they come as images, stirrings, symbols, recurring questions, and living metaphors that quietly ask us to pay attention? In this episode of The Heartlifter Way, Janell Rardon explores why discernment begins not with certainty, but with noticing. Drawing from the unexpected wisdom of a moonflower vine growing in her backyard garden, Janell reflects on the difference between explanation and metaphor—and why the soul often learns through symbols long before it understands through words. Together we'll explore: • Why discernment starts with noticing• The difference between explanation and metaphor• How God often speaks through recurring images, invitations, and patterns The Four Birth Season Questions for spiritual discernment: What keeps returning?What gentle nudges am I experiencing?What sensations and feelings am I noticing in my body?What is becoming clearer?If you've sensed something stirring beneath the surface of your life but can't quite explain it yet, this conversation is for you. Because sometimes the sacred arrives as a metaphor before it becomes a direction. And sometimes God's clearest invitations begin as a quiet stirring that becomes impossible to ignore. Take a deep breath. Slow down. Notice what is taking shape. The moonflower may have more to teach us than we realize. 🌿 Connect with Janell Rardon & Heartlift Wellness on Substack Website: ⁠janellrardon.com⁠Instagram: ⁠@janellrardon⁠Substack: ⁠@heartliftwellness⁠YouTube: Heartlift WellnessDownload the "Principles of Discernment" PDF: Trust What is Taking ShapeDownload the "Discernment Prayer" to use during our Birth Season: Prayer PDF

    33 min
  4. 13. A Birth Season: Trusting What is Taking Shape

    10 juin

    13. A Birth Season: Trusting What is Taking Shape

    A Birth Season is not about a dramatic transformation. That is so countercultural. Everything online tells us: Reinvent yourselfScale fasterLaunch biggerHustle harderPush through the painBut there is a gentler way to live: Notice. Listen. Journal. Pray. Walk. Tend. That's The Heartlifter Way in six words. 🌿 Connect with Janell Rardon & Heartlift Wellness Website: janellrardon.comInstagram: @janellrardonSubstack: @heartliftwellnessYouTube: Heartlift Wellness

    24 min
  5. 12. The Gift of the Desert: Finding God in Seasons of Silence, Uncertainty, and Becoming

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    12. The Gift of the Desert: Finding God in Seasons of Silence, Uncertainty, and Becoming

    What if the wilderness is not a sign of God's absence—but an invitation to encounter Him in a deeper way? In this thoughtful and soul-stirring conversation, Janell sits down with Old Testament scholar, spiritual director, and author Noel Forlini Burt to explore the sacred role of the desert throughout Scripture and our own lives. Drawing from her book, God in the Desert: A Spiritual Theology of Wilderness in the Old Testament, Noel invites us to reconsider seasons of uncertainty, silence, waiting, and spiritual disorientation. Together, they discuss the difference between wilderness and punishment, how God meets us in places of vulnerability, and why the desert may be a place of transformation rather than something to escape. They also explore a powerful question many of us are asking: How do we discern the difference between being in a season of wilderness formation and simply being chronically exhausted or living in survival mode? If you've ever felt like God has gone quiet, wondered whether your difficult season has a purpose, or longed to find meaning without rushing the process, this conversation offers a gentle invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and discover the gifts hidden within the wilderness. • Why wilderness is often a place of formation, not punishment• How to recognize God's presence in seasons of uncertainty• The spiritual gifts of silence, solitude, and waiting• Hagar's wilderness story and what it reveals about the heart of God• Wilderness formation versus survival mode• Why we don't need to rush healing or force meaning from our pain• How the desert invites us into deeper trust, presence, and becoming Whether you're walking through a season of grief, transition, unanswered questions, or spiritual dryness, this conversation reminds us that God is often doing His deepest work in places we least In this episode, we explore: Why wilderness is often a place of formation, not punishment• How to recognize God's presence in seasons of uncertainty• The spiritual gifts of silence, solitude, and waiting• Hagar's wilderness story and what it reveals about the heart of God• Wilderness formation versus survival mode• Why we don't need to rush healing or force meaning from our pain• How the desert invites us into deeper trust, presence, and becoming Whether you're walking through a season of grief, transition, unanswered questions, or spiritual dryness, this conversation reminds us that God is often doing His deepest work in places we least expect. Because sometimes the wilderness is not where we lose our way. Sometimes it's where we find God. 🌿 Connect with Noel Forlini Burt Website: Noel Forlini Burt WebsiteSubstack: Noel Forlini Burt on SubstackBook: God in the Desert: A Spiritual Theology of Wilderness in the Old Testament (IVP Academic) Author Page: God in the Desert (IVP Academic)🌿 Connect with Janell Rardon & Heartlift Wellness Website: janellrardon.comInstagram: @janellrardonSubstack: Heartlift WellnessYouTube: Heartlift Wellness

    54 min
  6. 11. Embody Your Royal Stance

    28 mai

    11. Embody Your Royal Stance

    Part 2 of Janell's conversation with Mary Van Geffen, author of "Parenting a Spicy One," invites you into a deeply healing and empowering conversation on what it means to embody your royal stance. So many women move through life disconnected from their inherent worth, shrinking themselves beneath the weight of comparison, fear, people-pleasing, or emotional exhaustion. But what if reclaiming your voice, posture, and presence is part of your healing journey? In this soul-stirring episode, Janell and Mary explore:
 • reclaiming your God-given identity
 • healing the inner narratives that diminish your confidence
• learning to stand with grounded feminine strength
 • embodying emotional maturity, courage, and self-trust 
• what “royal stance” truly means in everyday life. Together, they unpack how healing is not simply something we think about — it’s something we embody. This conversation is an invitation to awaken, heal, and remember the woman you truly are. You were never meant to live small. You were created to stand tall in grace, wisdom, and wholehearted presence. Listen now and begin embodying your royal stance. Mary Van Geffen is an international parenting coach, author of Parenting a Spicy One, and creator of Moms of Spicy Ones®. She helps parents stay calm, kind, and firm while raising strong-willed, deep-feeling children through connection-based parenting and nervous system awareness. Website: ⁠Mary Van Geffen Website⁠Contact Page: ⁠Contact Mary Van Geffen⁠Instagram: @maryvangeffen Linktree (newsletter, programs, quizzes, resources): ⁠Mary Van Geffen⁠Book Page: ⁠Parenting a Spicy One Book Page⁠Grab hold of all Janell's resources: Website: ⁠JanellRardon.com⁠Substack: ⁠Heartlift Wellness on Substack⁠YouTube Channel: ⁠Heartlift Wellness YouTube⁠Podcast: ⁠The Heartlifter Way with Janell on Apple Podcasts⁠Instagram: @janellrardon

    27 min
  7. 10. Parenting a Spicy One: Gentle Parenting for Strong-Willed, Deep-Feeling Kids

    27 mai

    10. Parenting a Spicy One: Gentle Parenting for Strong-Willed, Deep-Feeling Kids

    What if your strong-willed child isn’t a problem to fix—but a person to deeply understand? In this compassionate and honest conversation, Janell sits down with parenting coach and author Mary Van Geffen to talk about raising “Spicy Ones”—deep-feeling, wonderfully strong-willed children who often challenge traditional parenting approaches. Together, they explore why parenting these children can feel so emotionally intense, how nervous system regulation changes the atmosphere of the home, and why connection matters more than control. Mary shares gentle wisdom for mothers who feel exhausted, reactive, or discouraged, offering a more compassionate and grounded way to parent without dimming a child’s light. This episode is for the mother who feels overwhelmed by power struggles, weary from trying to “get it right,” or longing for a gentler way to love and lead her family. In this episode, we discuss:• What it means to parent a “Spicy One”• Gentle parenting and nervous system regulation• Connection over control• Parenting strong-willed and deep-feeling kids• Healing while parenting differently than you were parented• How motherhood reveals our own need for grace and gentleness You are not failing because your child is intense.You may simply be invited into a different kind of parenting. Mary Van Geffen is an international parenting coach, author of Parenting a Spicy One, and creator of Moms of Spicy Ones®. She helps parents stay calm, kind, and firm while raising strong-willed, deep-feeling children through connection-based parenting and nervous system awareness. Website: Mary Van Geffen WebsiteContact Page: Contact Mary Van GeffenInstagram: @maryvangeffen Linktree (newsletter, programs, quizzes, resources): Mary Van GeffenBook Page: Parenting a Spicy One Book PageGrab hold of all Janell's resources: Website: JanellRardon.comSubstack: Heartlift Wellness on SubstackYouTube Channel: Heartlift Wellness YouTubePodcast: The Heartlifter Way with Janell on Apple PodcastsInstagram: @janellrardon

    1 h
  8. 9. The God Who Mothers Us, Part 2

    24 mai

    9. The God Who Mothers Us, Part 2

    In this gentle conversation with Elizabeth Berget, author of "Love Like a Mother: How the Sacred Work of Motherhood Reveals the Maternal Heart of God," we continue exploring how enlarging our understanding of God’s maternal tenderness can transform the way emotionally weary women experience faith, healing, and belonging. Together, we reflect on the sacred work of nurturing, caregiving, carrying, comforting, and remaining present through suffering—and how these deeply human experiences mirror the compassionate heart of God. This conversation invites us to move beyond harsh or striving images of spirituality and rediscover a God who gathers, comforts, nourishes, and stays near to the weary. If you have ever longed to experience God as safe, gentle, emotionally present, and compassionate, this episode offers a healing invitation into a more embodied and tender faith. Because perhaps divine love has always been more nurturing, attentive, and compassionate than we realized. 🤍 The Heartlifter Way Visit Elizabeth's website and order her powerful book: ⁠Elizabeth Berget⁠ Visit Janell's revised and revitalized website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Heartlift Wellness⁠⁠⁠⁠ Join a community of thoughtful women on The Heartlifter Way: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Heartlift Wellness on Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠ Order Janell's most recent book:⁠⁠⁠⁠ Stronger Every Day

    37 min
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Welcome to The Heartlifter Way—a gentle path back to yourself. Hosted by award-winning author Janell Rardon, this podcast is a calm, reflective space where healing begins not with pressure or perfection, but with presence, awareness, and grace. Rooted in a somatic, mind-body approach, each episode invites you to reconnect your thoughts, feelings, and body—learning to move from overwhelm and anxiety into a steadier, more grounded way of living. Through gentle teachings on nervous system regulation, emotional healing, and embodied awareness, you’ll begin to live The Heartlifter Way.

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  • Création
    Janell Rardon
  • Années d’activité
    2018 - 2026
  • Épisodes
    384
  • Classification
    Tous publics
  • Copyright
    © Janell Rardon
  • Site web de l’émission
    The Heartlifter Way

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