Healer & Hope Giver: A Christian Podcast on Healing, Faith & Identity
Healer & Hope Giver: A Christian Podcast on Healing, Faith & Identity
There are seasons when life looks steady on the outside but feels heavy on the inside.
This Christian podcast is a space for honest conversations about healing, faith, grief, identity, spiritual growth, and the quiet work God does in the middle of real life.
Hosted by author and speaker Kim Hawkins, Healer & Hope Giver: Practicing Out Loud explores what it means to live from who God says you are — not from pressure, performance, or old narratives that no longer fit.
Each week you’ll find:
• Long-form episodes on healing and growth in everyday life
• Devotional episodes rooted in Scripture with real-life application
• Gentle encouragement for anyone navigating grief, change, leadership, identity shifts, or spiritual formation
If you’ve ever felt:
– like you’re the steady one everyone leans on
– like healing is happening but still unfolding
– like faith is real but complicated
– or like you’re carrying more than you can explain
You are not alone.
This is a faith-based podcast for those who want depth, not noise. For those who love God but are still becoming. For those learning to loosen their grip and live with open hands.
New episodes release every Monday (long-form) and Thursday (devotional).
Follow the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or your favorite app so new episodes download automatically.
You don’t have to rush your healing.
You just have to stay.
Episodes
73 episodes
Devotional 34: When God's Answer Looks Different
What do you do when God answers your prayer—but not the way you hoped?Sometimes the hardest part of faith isn't believing God can answer. It's trusting Him when His answer looks nothing like the one you were praying for.In this de...
Integration: Living From Who You're Becoming
What if one of the clearest signs of healing isn't that your circumstances have changed—but that your decisions have?Over the past several weeks, we've explored health, grief, relationships, identity, and the quiet work God does beneath ...
When God Doesn't Answer the Prayer You Keep Praying
What do you do when you've prayed the same prayer for years... and nothing seems to change?In this deeply personal episode, I share some of the most difficult seasons of my life—from years of infertility to losing two men I dearly loved—...
Devotional 33: The Quiet Work of Becoming
Why does real growth often feel so slow?Many of us become discouraged because we can't see dramatic change in our lives. But what if God is doing His deepest work beneath the surface—like the roots of an oak tree growing long before anyo...
When Healing Changes Who You're Becoming
Have you ever looked back at an earlier version of yourself and wondered how you became the person you are today?Not because life suddenly became easy.But because somewhere along the way... you began responding differently....
Devotional 32: When Today Is the Gift
What if the life you've been waiting to enjoy is already happening today?So often we spend our days replaying yesterday or worrying about tomorrow that we miss the gift God has already placed in our hands.In this devotional, we'll...
Health as a Gift to the People You Love
Why do you really want to be healthier?For years, my answers sounded like everyone else's.Lose weight. Lower my blood sugar. Have more energy. Feel better.Those are good goals.But somewhere...
Devotional 31: When God Sees More Than the Mirror
What if the mirror has been answering questions it was never designed to answer?Many of us have spent years measuring our worth by our appearance, comparison, or the messages we've carried since childhood. But God has never looked at us ...
Who Taught You to See Yourself That Way?
Have you ever stopped to wonder when you first became aware of your body?Not the first time you looked in a mirror...The first time you wondered whether what you saw was good enough.In this episode, we explore the messages ...
Devotional 30: The Things That Remain
What do the people we love leave behind?Not just possessions.Not just photographs.Not just memories.They leave influence.Faith.Traditions.Values.Ways of loving.Ways of serving.<...
Grief Glitter
What if grief isn't only about what we've lost?What if it's also about what remains?In this episode, Kim explores the idea of "grief glitter"—the pieces of people we continue finding long after they're gone. Through stories about ...
Devotional 29: When God Sees More Than the Label
What if God sees far more than the labels you've been carrying?Throughout our lives, we collect labels. Some come from doctors. Some come from family. Some come from difficult experiences. Some come from our own thoughts. While many of t...
The Diagnosis Didn't Change Me
At eighteen years old, a doctor looked at my bloodwork and told me I would never be thin because I had PCOS.Years later, another doctor burst into a room and announced that I wasn't pregnant—I had diabetes.Then came Moyamoya disea...
Devotional 28: When God Uses People to Carry You
What if one of the ways God answers our prayers is through people?Many of us want God to make us stronger, more resilient, and more capable. But throughout Scripture, God often provides something different. He places people in our lives ...
Some People Share a Season. Some Share a Life
Some relationships last a few months. Others last a lifetime.As we move through different seasons of life, the people around us often change. Friendships evolve. Circumstances shift. Some relationships naturally drift apart, while others...
Devotional 27: When God Sees More Than the Measurement
Have you ever become so focused on one area of your life that it started feeling like the whole story?Maybe it's a diagnosis. A relationship. A prayer that hasn't been answered yet. A number that isn't moving the way you hoped.In ...
Integration: What Still Belongs
After months of conversations about voice, belonging, boundaries, childhood experiences, people-pleasing, and survival patterns, one question remains:What still belongs?In this integration episode, we're stepping back to lo...
Health Became Different When It Stopped Being About My Weight
For years, I thought health was mostly about weight.The scale went up. The scale went down. Clothes fit or they didn't. Numbers improved or they didn't. And whether I realized it or not, I was using those measurements to tell myself a st...
Devotional 26: When You Can't Yet See the Growth
Have you ever wondered if you're actually making progress?Maybe you're still wrestling with the same fears, grief, temptations, anxieties, or questions you thought you would have overcome by now. In those moments, it's easy to assume not...
The Sponge Principle: What Comes Out Under Pressure
What comes out of us when life gets hard?Most of us assume pressure creates our reactions. But what if pressure simply reveals what has already been filling us all along?After spending a weekend sorting through decades of memories...
Devotional 25: When God Sees the Parts Beneath the Labels
Have you ever struggled to find words that fully capture who you are?In this devotional, we explore the limits of language, the longing to be understood, and the comforting truth that God has never depended on labels, descriptions, or ex...
Some of What You Call Personality Began as Survival
Have you ever taken a personality test and thought, "Wow... that's exactly me"?I have.Over the years I've taken CliftonStrengths, Enneagram assessments, introvert/extrovert tests, leadership assessments, and more. I've al...
Devotional 24: When You Learned to Adapt to Belong
What happens when the ways you learned to stay connected slowly begin to feel like your identity?In this devotional, we reflect on the quiet ways adaptation can shape how we move through relationships, belonging, and selfhood over time. ...
How Childhood Shapes the Way You See Yourself
Some of the things we call “personality” may have actually started as survival.In this episode, Kim reflects on how childhood environments shape identity long before we have language for what’s happening emotionally. From flying alone be...
Devotional 23: When You Are Still Discovering Who You Are
What happens when you don’t fully understand yourself yet?In this devotional, we reflect on the quiet tension of being in process—of sensing that parts of you are still unfolding while longing to feel more settled and clear. Through Scri...
