What is the first & best step to more emotional health in 2021?

Even the strongest among us have been tested during this ongoing COVID-19 lock down. Financial upheaval. Loss of loved ones. Virtual schooling. Working from home. Strained marriages. Pandemic parenting. Grief over losing “normal,” and so much more. What can we do to stay emotionally healthy and develop even more emotional intelligence and resilience for the challenges that are sure to come? Take the right next step by joining an online community of remarkable, heartlifting human beings, just like you, committed to the three-fold cord of emotional health and wellness: a healthy sense of self, healthy behavior patterns, and healthy communication skills. When practiced, life becomes stronger every single day. Today’s your day. Let’s grow stronger together.

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Shared connection saturates relationships. Author Robin Weidman reminds us that “true intimacy involves knowing and being known in all your imperfections.” There is absolutely no way I can “know and be known,” solely through a digital connection. As much as I love being connected to my three children, who live far from home, via various apps, nothing compares to the power of sharing a meal around our family table—imperfections and all. In fact, “Research shows that loneliness and social isolation are harmful to our health: lacking social connections is a comparable risk factor for early death as smoking 15 cigarettes a day and is worse for us than well-known risk factors such as obesity and physical inactivity. Loneliness increases the likelihood of mortality by 26%.” Remember, shared joy is double joy.

—From Tool 9

Attatchment Style Test

Take Dr. Diane Poole Heller’s Attachment Styles Test to help determine your attachment style.

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Love Style Quiz

Take the Love Style quiz from
How We Love to help you determine your own love style.

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Enneagram Test

Here’s a free Enneagram test you can take to help you determine your enneagram type. (A paid version is available here.)

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Audio Meditations

Pick Up Your Pen

The Woman at the Well, John 4, Lectio Divina

Ask for Something Greater

The Shame Shake Off Prayer

A Prayer for Strength

Come Sit by the Well

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Hi, I’m Janell, Professional Heartlifter

I think I was born a teacher. At age 8, I started “Lilac Avenue Elementary School,” in my dear friend, Phyllis’s, garage. It was legit. We had a library and everything. I’ve been teaching in one form or another since. After the release of my first book, I encountered hundreds of women, desperate and hungry for help. Their cry became my calling. At age 50, I went back for my Masters in Counseling, Marriage and Family Specialization. In 2012, I embarked on a whole new path as I opened, “The Heartlift Practice,” and began seeing clients on a daily basis. Their presence empowered my research, study, and ultimately my writing of strategic online courses, books, and always, my blog.