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
58 episodes
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...
When Belonging Shaped Who You Became
What if who you thought you were… wasn’t the whole story?In this episode, we explore a quieter kind of realization—one that doesn’t come from dramatic moments, but from noticing something subtle:That some parts of who you’ve becom...
Devotional 22: When Peace Feels Unfamiliar
What if what you’ve called peace has sometimes been vigilance?What if the peace of Christ is gentler, steadier, and safer than survival ever taught you to expect?In this devotional, we sit with Jesus’ invitation into a peace that ...
Is It Really Peace If It Costs You Yourself?
What if peace isn’t actually peace when it requires you to disappear?In this episode, we explore a question that touches identity, boundaries, truth-telling, and healing:Is it really peace if it costs you yourself?To...
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, ...
Integration: 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...
