Stronger Every Day: 9 Tools for an Emotionally Healthy You

by Janell Rardon

Overview

As a trauma-informed professional life coach, Janell Rardon spends a good deal of her day-to-day work with brokenness--broken families, broken relationships, broken hearts and souls. In response to the pleas of her clients, she developed a set of emotional health tools that help them repair the broken parts of their lives. In Stronger Every Day, she shares those powerful tools with you.

In this heartlifting book, she helps you to
- transform pain into meaning
- experience secure attachment with God
- shape healthy thoughts
- shift from shame to self-compassion
- practice healthy assertiveness
- set mental and emotional boundaries
- understand triggers and defense mechanisms
- regulate emotional highs and lows
- cultivate healthy human connection

With inspiring Scriptures, quotes, prayers, personal stories, and case studies, Rardon sets you on the path of emotional health so that you can be stronger than ever--every day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493428939
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/19/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	NOOK Book
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	327,915
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Janell Rardon, MA, is a Board-Certified Life Coach (AACC), adjunct professor, and an award-winning author who loves nothing more than helping family systems become emotionally healthy, happy, and whole. In her private practice, The Heartlift Practice, she specializes in trauma-informed, attachment-based, faith-infused modalities. She and her husband of more than 35 years have three grown children and live in Virginia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 13

The Heartlift Journey Chart 16

A Prayer for Strength: From My Heart to Yours 17

Introduction: Where the Light Enters 19

Part 1 Envision 37

Tool 1 Step across the Threshold: Meaningfulness 39

Tool 2 Sit in God's Presence: Secure Attachment 59

Tool 3 Shape Healthy Thoughts: Cognitive Reframing 81

Part 2 Educate 103

Tool 4 Shift from Shaming to Gracing: Self-Compassion 105

Tool 5 Speak Healing Words to Your Future: Healthy Assertiveness 133

Tool 6 Soak in Living Water: Spiritual Growth 153

Part 3 Establish 173

Tool 7 Send New, Positive Messages to Your Brain: Memory Reconsolidation 175

Tool 8 Soar in Healthy Skies: Emotion Regulation 203

Tool 9 Save Mental Energy for the Essentials: Human Connection 225

Glossary 245

Resources 251

Notes 253