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
93 episodes
Speaking Truth Without Becoming Loud
What happens when you finally learn to trust your own voice—but you still want to remain teachable?For years, disagreement could make me question my own experience, replay conversations, or wonder whether someone else's interpretation au...
Devotional 43: When God Gives You a Lamp Instead of a Map
What do you do when you genuinely want to follow God... but He hasn't shown you the whole plan?Sometimes we want discernment to give us certainty: the correct decision, the expected outcome, and preferably a color-coded binder explaining...
Not Every Good Thing Is Yours To Carry
How do you know what is actually yours to carry when God doesn't hand you the color-coded binder?Some things really are ours for a season. Others come from expectations we've placed on ourselves, our ability to help, or the belief that i...
Devotional 42: God Will Be There on Day 41
What if you keep going... and the breakthrough doesn’t come?We love the idea that Day 41 is coming—that if we can just hold on through Day 40, tomorrow might finally bring the answer, the growth, or the change we’ve been waiting for....
When Your Purpose Doesn't Look Like the Plan
What happens when you believe God created you with purpose...but your life doesn't look anything like the plan you thought would get you there?Maybe the career changed. The business failed. The opportunity ended. Or maybe you're doing so...
Integration: When Your Life Starts Growing From a Different Place
What if trusting God in an unfinished story doesn't mean finally understanding what He's doing?Throughout this arc, we've been asking one question: Can God be trusted while the story is unfinished?In this integration episod...
Devotional 41: When You’ve Lost the Rhythm
What happens when you love God—but the spiritual rhythms you once had have slipped away?Maybe life got busy. Maybe grief, illness, caregiving, or disappointment changed your capacity. Maybe you got distracted. And now opening your Bible ...
The Gift of Being Here
What if the unfinished thing in your life doesn’t have to become smaller before you’re allowed to receive everything happening beside it?In 2009, Kim was waiting to become a mother. Infertility, fertility treatments, adoption paperwork, ...
Devotional 40: When People Become Too Much
We were made to need people. But what happens when we ask another human being to become everything we need?In this devotional, we explore the tension between biblical interdependence and dependence that asks too much of another person. T...
We Don’t Become Who We Are Alone
Who has helped shape the person you’re becoming—and whose becoming have you been invited to be part of?Last week, we looked backward and asked who we were becoming while we were busy living. But when Kim looked at that same life a...
Devotional 39: Remember What You Know
What do you do when you can't see what God is doing?Sometimes hindsight gives us an explanation. Sometimes it doesn't. But it can still give us evidence—evidence that God has met us before, sustained us before, and remained faithf...
The Person I Couldn't See Yet
What if some of the biggest changes in you happened so slowly that you never noticed them?A strange interaction in a Walgreens checkout line sends Kim looking backward—from childhood teacher books and sequined maracas to a high-school tr...
Devotional 38: Before You Know What to Ask For
What do you pray when you don't know what to pray?Sometimes the needs ahead of us are things we couldn't possibly anticipate. In this devotional, we explore Isaiah 43:18–19 and Romans 8:26—and the relief of knowing that God's care isn't ...
What If God Is Already Making a Way?
What if your inability to see a way forward doesn't mean God isn't already making one?Sometimes we recognize God's provision only in hindsight—a job that became a bridge, a path that changed without the calling disappearing, a doctor who...
Devotional 37: The Gift of Today
What if receiving the life you have today doesn't mean giving up hope for the life you're still praying for?In this devotional, we explore Psalm 118:24, Israel's daily manna, and the difference between receiving and resigning. God...
Don't Miss the Life You're Living
What if the life you're waiting for isn't the only life worth receiving?It's easy to postpone joy until something changes—until the prayer is answered, the body is different, the finances improve, the grief gets lighter, or life finally ...
Devotional 36: Following the Thread
What if discovering your calling isn't about finding one dramatic answer...What if it's about recognizing the clues God has been leaving throughout your life?In this devotional, we explore Ephesians 2:10 and discover how God often...
Learning to See the Story Behind the Story
Have you ever wondered why certain people, places, or experiences have stayed with you your entire life?What if they aren't random?What if they've been quietly revealing the heart God has been shaping all along?In this deep...
Devotional 35: What Do You Do While You're Waiting?
Waiting doesn't have to mean your life is on hold.In this devotional, we explore Psalm 27:14 and discover that God often does His deepest work during the ordinary days we’re tempted to overlook.If you've ever wondered whether anyt...
The Story I Never Could Have Written
For eight years, I prayed for one thing.A baby.When the prayers seemed unanswered, I finally reached the place where I told God,"If motherhood isn't Your plan for me... please take this desire away."What hap...
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...
