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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. 

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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 best use this enforced season of being home to evaluate and restructure some things in our family?" 

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5. Download the 2025 Advent Guide: The Great Glimmer Hunt
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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. 

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5. Download the 2025 Advent Guide: The Great Glimmer Hunt
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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 website: https://www.janellrardon.com/heartlift/reflect/ 

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3. Make a tax-deductible donation through Heartlift International
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5. Download the 2025 Advent Guide: The Great Glimmer Hunt
6. Meet me on Instagram: @janellrardon

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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. 

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5. Download the 2025 Advent Guide: The Great Glimmer Hunt
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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. 

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3. Make a tax-deductible donation through Heartlift International
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5. Download the 2025 Advent Guide: The Great Glimmer Hunt
6. Meet me on Instagram: @janellrardon

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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. 

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5. Download the 2025 Advent Guide: The Great Glimmer Hunt
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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. 

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3. Make a tax-deductible donation through Heartlift International
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5. Download the 2025 Advent Guide: The Great Glimmer Hunt
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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. 

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3. Make a tax-deductible donation through Heartlift International
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5. Download the 2025 Advent Guide: The Great Glimmer Hunt
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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." 

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Begin Your Heartlifter's Journey:

1. Support the show: Your Donation Matters
2. Leave a review and rate the podcast: WRITE A REVIEW
3. Make a tax-deductible donation through Heartlift International
4. Visit and subscribe to Heartlift Central on Substack. This is our new online meeting place for Heartlifters worldwide.
5. Download the 2025 Advent Guide: The Great Glimmer Hunt
6. Meet me on Instagram: @janellrardon