The Whole Hearted Woman
Welcome to The Whole Hearted Woman Podcast — a Christ-centered space where faith meets emotional healing and the deeper work of heart restoration. If you’re a capable, faithful woman who loves God but still feels stuck in emotional pain, hidden wounds, or patterns you can’t seem to break—you’re not alone, and you’re in the right place. You’ve prayed. You’ve tried to change. But something deeper still feels unresolved. Because true transformation doesn’t begin with behavior… it begins in the heart. Hosted by Kristen Rey, author of A Heart Fully Alive and founder of Heart 2 Heart Ministry, this podcast helps women move beyond surface-level change and into healing at the root—where wounds shape beliefs, beliefs shape identity, and identity shapes the patterns you live out. Through biblical truth, emotional healing insight, and Spirit-led encouragement, each episode invites you into honest conversations about faith, healing, and becoming whole from the inside out. Topics you’ll hear about include: • Heart healing at the root — understanding how wounds form beliefs and patterns • Identity in Christ — breaking agreement with what was formed in pain • Emotional and spiritual integration — where faith becomes lived experience • Prophetic encouragement — hearing God’s heart for your healing journey • Biblical women — encountering God in the midst of pain, waiting, and restoration If you’re ready to stop striving, stop performing, and start healing from the inside out, this podcast will help you become a Whole Hearted Woman—healed, restored, and aligned with who God created you to be. Your healing is not a failure of faith. It’s the beginning of freedom.
Episodes
Most people don't break because of one thing.
They break because a hundred things were already resting on their shoulders.
In this episode, we go back—not just to the hospital room I told you about last week, but even further.
Back to the little girl who learned to listen for footsteps.
Who learned to read the emotional temperature of every room before she walked into it.
Who was learning to survive long before she learned...
What if the very thing you've been hiding is the thing that sets someone else free?
This is Episode 1 of a brand new season — and a brand new beginning. If you've been here before, welcome back. If you're finding this podcast for the first time, I believe you found it for a reason.
This episode is an invitation. Into a heart room — a safe, judgment-free, pretending-free space where your story matters, your...
What if the patterns you struggle with didn’t begin with behavior… but with formation?
In this deeply honest and eye-opening episode of The Whole Hearted Woman Podcast, Kristen Rey explores the hidden systems, wounds, beliefs, and survival patterns that quietly shape the way we think, respond, relate, and live.
Many women love God deeply… yet still feel stuck in cycles they can’t fully explain.
Why do we mini...
Before the fear. Before the performance. Before the version of you that learned how to survive.
There was a you that God already knew.
In Episode 18 of The Whole Hearted Woman Podcast, we go back to the beginning — not to a theological concept, but to a deeply personal truth that may change the way you understand yourself.
Because the version of you that formed in pain, in survival, in performance — that version is real. B...
She shows up every Sunday.
She gives the right answers. She serves faithfully. She knows how to look okay.
And she is quietly not okay.
But nobody knows.
Because she has been doing this for a very long time.
If you recognized yourself just now — this episode is for you.
In Episode 17 of The Whole Hearted Woman Podcast, we talk about the performing heart — the exhausting, isolating work of maintaining an outer life that doesn'...
Have you ever slowed down long enough to notice what’s happening inside of you… and instead of finding peace, you found noise?
In this episode of The Whole Hearted Woman Podcast, Kristen Rey gently walks you through what it means when your inner world feels overwhelming—and how to begin listening without shame.
If you’ve started noticing your thoughts, emotions, or reactions more deeply… but aren&rsquo...
You can love God deeply… and still feel reactive. You can know what's right… and still struggle to do it. You can pray, show up, and keep going — and still sense that something beneath the surface hasn't been tended to yet.
If that's where you are — this episode is for you.
In Episode 15 of The Whole Hearted Woman Podcast, we go beneath the surface of your everyday struggles and into the place that quietly s...
Have you ever asked yourself why is it so hard to actually set a boundary… even when you know you need one?
You understand the pattern.
You see what’s happening.
But when the moment comes…
You freeze.
You over-explain.
You say yes… again.
And afterward, you’re left wondering:
“Why can’t I change this?”
In this episode, we move beyond awareness and into what to do in the ...
Why are boundaries so hard… even when you know you need them?
If you’ve ever found yourself saying yes when you meant no…
over-explaining your decisions…
feeling guilty for protecting your peace…
or repeating the same painful patterns in relationships…
This episode will help you understand why.
Because boundaries are not just about what you say—
they’re about what’...
Have you ever known exactly what to do… and still struggled to do it?
You understand boundaries.
You know what’s healthy.
You want to do the right thing.
And yet… in real moments, it still feels incredibly hard.
Maybe you say yes when your heart is saying no.
Maybe you set a boundary and feel guilt afterward.
Or maybe you’re in a relationship where boundaries haven’t been respected — a...
Many women struggle with boundaries.
We want to be loving.
We want to be helpful.
We want to honor God in our relationships.
But somewhere along the way, many of us learned that saying no feels selfish… unkind… or even unchristian.
In this episode of The Whole Hearted Woman Podcast, Kristen explores what the Bible teaches about healthy boundaries and why they are an essential part of protecting the work God is doin...
Proverbs 4:23 tells us:
"Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it."
But what does it actually mean to guard the gates of your heart?
In this episode of The Whole Hearted Woman Podcast, Kristen explores the biblical significance of gates and why learning to steward the influences in our lives is essential to protecting the healing God is doing within us.
After God restores the broken places of our hearts, we...
Before we surrender our hearts to Jesus, we spend years trying to fix ourselves.
We manage our emotions.
We hide our wounds.
We strive to become better versions of ourselves.
But the cracks remain.
In this episode, Kristen shares how true restoration does not come from self-effort — it comes from surrender. Through the powerful metaphor of kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, we explore how God...
In this Scripture-centered episode of The Whole Hearted Woman Podcast, Kristen Rey explores Christ-centered heart formation and how survival patterns are shaped through life experiences, relationships, grief, illness, and moments that influence our sense of safety, identity, and worth. Rather than focusing on therapy or self-fixing, this conversation invites women into a gentle, trauma-informed journey of Christian emotional healin...
What happens when we finally slow down enough to hear what’s happening inside our hearts?
In this deeply gentle episode of The Wholehearted Woman Podcast, Kris Rey invites you into a sacred pause — a space where healing doesn’t begin with fixing, striving, or analyzing… but with learning to listen safely.
Many of us were never taught how to sit with our emotions or notice what our bodies are holding. Instead,...
Many women know God loves them.
They believe the Scriptures.
They have real faith.
And yet, they are still tired.
In this episode of The Whole Hearted Woman Podcast, we explore the tension so many believers live with—the gap between what we know to be true and what we are actually experiencing in our daily lives.
Why does striving persist even when faith is strong?
Why does rest feel elusive when we trust God?
Why ca...
In this episode, we’re talking about truth—
not as something to weaponize against ourselves or others,
but as something that gently replaces the lies our hearts learned while we were trying to survive.
Jesus said, “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
But this freedom isn’t about collecting more information.
It’s about liberation.
Today, we explore how the heart ca...
In this episode, we slow down and turn our attention toward awareness—because healing doesn’t begin with change, it begins with noticing.
Many of us love God deeply and want to live wholeheartedly, yet our hearts have quietly learned ways of protecting themselves through pain, disappointment, or loss. These adaptations don’t mean we lack faith—they often mean the heart has been trying to survive.
Today’s...
In this episode, we continue our journey into understanding the heart—not as something to fix or override, but as something God deeply cares for.
Many faithful women love God sincerely, trust His Word, and desire to live wholeheartedly… and yet still feel tired, unsettled, or quietly afraid of getting it wrong. In this episode, we gently explore why that tension exists, how pain is often over-spiritualized rather than t...
Where Healing Begins
What if needing healing isn’t a failure of faith?
In this episode of The Whole Hearted Woman Podcast, we begin by naming something many women quietly carry but rarely say out loud: that you can love and serve Christ deeply and still feel tired, fractured, or worn down inside.
This episode is not about hype, quick fixes, or trying harder.
It’s an invitation to pause, breathe, and begin again.
Together...
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