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
45 episodes
Devotional 21: When You Can’t Control How It’s Received
There are moments when you want to say something carefully, clearly, and in a way that will be understood… but you can’t control how it will be received.This devotional is a gentle place to sit with that tension. Rooted in Scripture, it ...
You’re Not Responsible for How People Respond to You
If you’ve ever struggled with overthinking conversations, fear of conflict, people pleasing, or trying to communicate in a way that won’t be misunderstood, this episode will meet you right where you are.What if the hardest part of...
Devotional 20: When Your Words Don’t Feel Like Enough
There are moments when you hesitate before speaking—not because you don’t care, but because you do. You want to say it the right way, to be understood, and to not create something you’ll have to carry afterward.This devotional is a gentl...
Why You Don’t Trust Your Voice in the Moment
There are moments when you’re not confused—you just don’t trust yourself to say what you already know.In this episode, we explore the quiet internal pause that shows up in conversations, decisions, and everyday interactions—the space bet...
Devotional 19: When Being Seen Feels Unfamiliar
There are places in us that learned how to stay small—not because something is wrong, but because it once felt safer that way.In this devotional, Kim gently explores what it means to be fully seen by God in those quieter places. Rooted i...
When You Learned to Shrink to Keep the Peace
There are patterns we carry that don’t feel like patterns at all. They feel like personality.In this episode, we explore what it looks like to learn—often at a young age—that staying small feels safer than being fully seen. What starts a...
Devotional 18: When Your Voice Feels Hard to Find
There are seasons when your voice feels harder to access—not because it’s gone, but because it learned to be quiet.In this devotional, Kim gently explores what it means to reconnect with your voice without pressure or performance. Rooted...
Shrinking to Keep the Peace (and What It Cost Me)
There are ways we learn to navigate life that feel so normal, we don’t even think to question them.Being easy. Being independent. Not needing much. Keeping the peace.For many of us, those patterns were formed early—and over time, ...
When Grief and Hope Live in the Same Room
There are seasons where life keeps moving… but something in you is still healing.You’re still showing up. Still carrying responsibility. Still doing what needs to be done. And at the same time, there are parts of you that are still proce...
Devotional 17: When You Don’t Understand What Was Lost
There are seasons when something shifts or ends without explanation, and what’s left behind doesn’t feel like a clear loss — just unfinished.In this devotional, Kim sits with the experience of not understanding what was lost and the quie...
When Loss Changes What You Believe About God
Loss doesn’t always come in one defining moment. Sometimes it shows up quietly over time—through closed doors, shifting relationships, unmet expectations, and seasons that don’t unfold the way you prayed they would.In this episode of
Devotional 16: When Strength Feels Like Exhaustion
There are seasons when strength quietly turns into exhaustion.You’re still showing up. Still handling responsibilities. Still carrying what needs to be carried. But underneath the surface, something feels different. The weight is heavier...
The Hidden Cost of Being the Strong One
People often praise the person who always shows up, handles things quietly, and keeps everything steady when life becomes difficult. But very rarely do we talk about the hidden cost of being the strong one.In this episode, Kim reflects o...
Devotional 15: When God Rebuilds What Survival Held Together
There are seasons in healing when life feels more emotional and fragile than we expected. Instead of feeling stronger, we sometimes feel like parts of us are unraveling.But what if those moments aren’t signs that something is going wrong...
When Healing Feels Like Falling Apart
There are seasons in healing where things feel more emotional, more complicated, and more overwhelming than we expected. Instead of feeling stronger, it can feel like parts of us are unraveling.In this episode, Kim reflects on what it lo...
Devotional 14: Learning the Difference Between Warning and Worry
There are seasons when vigilance once made sense — and then slowly becomes exhaustion.In this devotional, we explore the difference between warning and worry, and how to relearn calm discernment without dismissing what truly needs attent...
When Your Body Speaks
There are seasons when your body whispers… and seasons when it shouts.In this episode, I share the story of mini-strokes no one noticed, a month-long migraine that led to brain surgery, years of metabolic swings, and what I’m learning no...
Devotional 13: When Hope Begins to Feel Steady
There are seasons when hope feels fragile — measured, cautious, and quietly guarded.And then, sometimes without fanfare, something shifts. Breath feels easier. Expectation softens. You begin to trust without bracing for disappointment.
A Heart Learning to Hope Again
After seasons of guarded expectation, loss, and borrowed belonging, hope doesn’t always return loudly. Sometimes it comes back quietly — in the way your breath steadies, in the way you stop bracing for rejection, in the way you begin to take...
Devotional 12: Faithfulness Without Pressure
There are seasons when healing is still unfolding, but life hasn’t slowed down. Responsibilities remain. Decisions still need to be made. And faith can quietly begin to feel heavy.This devotional is a gentle place to rest for anyone lear...
Letting God Hold What You Can’t
There are seasons when life isn’t falling apart — but it isn’t light either.In this episode, we talk about the quiet weight of being the steady one, holding stories you can’t fix, and carrying responsibility without bitterness or urgency...
Devotional 11: When Grief Waits Until Life Feels Steady
Grief doesn’t always arrive when loss first happens.Sometimes it waits — until life feels steadier, until survival mode eases, until there is finally space to feel what couldn’t be felt before. And when grief surfaces later, it can feel ...
Grief Shows Up in the Weirdest Ways
Grief doesn’t always show up the way we expect it to.Sometimes it arrives slowly, through a series of small goodbyes we don’t realize we’re making at the time. Other times it comes suddenly, without warning, leaving us breathless and dis...
Integration: A Listening Space for Whatever You’re Carrying
This is a different kind of episode.There’s no teaching here and no new content to take in. This is simply a quiet pause — a listening space where nothing needs to be solved, explained, or fixed.If you’re carrying somethi...
Devotional 10: Staying Gentle When Healing Is Still Unfolding
There are seasons when healing is still happening — but it doesn’t feel obvious, forward, or resolved.This devotional is a gentle place to land for anyone who finds themselves feeling tender again after a season of growth. Using Scriptur...
