Heart Check
The courage to look beneath the surface
Sometimes we need the courage to look beneath the surface—not because something is necessarily wrong, but because something important may be waiting to be discovered.
What Is a Heart Check?
A Heart Check is an invitation to slow down long enough to notice what may be happening beneath the surface. It creates room to examine the beliefs, emotions, internal narratives, expectations, experiences, and questions that can quietly shape how we see ourselves and how we move through life.
Heart Check is not about assuming something is wrong. Sometimes reflection reveals a wound. Sometimes it reveals a pattern. Sometimes it reveals strength, growth, gratitude, truth, or something beautiful that has been hidden beneath the surface all along.
The goal is awareness with intention: becoming curious about what the heart is saying so that truth, healing, alignment, and transformation can follow.
WHAT A HEART CHECK OFFERS
Courage
The willingness to look at what we usually outrun.
Awareness
Naming the beliefs and emotions beneath the pursuit.
Curiosity
Questions that open the heart instead of closing it.
Courage
Gentle honesty that moves us toward transformation.
The Heart Check Experience
Each Heart Check guides the reader through a consistent reflective journey. The experience is designed to be intimate, honest, accessible, and usable at the reader's own pace.
Pause and notice what is happending beneath the surface.
Slow down long enough to become aware of what may be stirring beneath the surface.
Make room for The Heart’s Response.
Give space for what the heart is saying.
Reflect on the central heart question.
Sit with the question this Heart Check invites you to consider.
Release & Exhale.
let go and breathe out what you have been carrying.
Consider the beliefs or narratives shaping the response.
Notice the beliefs and stories that shape how you respond.
Carrying the reflection into The Meeting Place.
Continue the conversation through writing, prayer, or continued thought.
The collection
Heart Check reflections
New Heart Checks are added regularly. Browse the latest below — each one is written to be read slowly.
Heart Check
The Promotion Didn’t Bring Peace
You worked for it, you got it, and the quiet you expected never came. What if the heart was asking for something the title could never give?
Read the reflection →
Heart Check
When Success Becomes a Hiding Place
Staying busy and accomplished can feel like safety. This Heart Check looks at what we might be avoiding when achievement becomes the place we go to hide.
Read the reflection →
Heart Check
The Exhuastion of Always Being Strong
Being the one everyone leans on is its own kind of weight. A reflection on what happens when strength becomes the only thing you let people see.
Read the reflection →
The full Heart Check library is being gathered. Join the community to receive each new reflection as it is released.
Take it to the Meeting Place
Reflection does not always end when the reading ends. The Meeting Place provides room to sit with what surfaced, write what you are hearing, and continue the conversation honestly.
Ways to engage
Read a Heart Check slowly — more than once if you need to.
Journal the questions in The Meeting Place companion.
Bring what surfaces into Heart Echoes and Scripture.
Share in community when you're ready — or simply listen.
Continue With The Way You Need
A Heart Check may be enough for today. Or it may lead you toward Scripture through Heart Echoes, conversation through Hear the Heart, prayer, community, or deeper individual work through coaching. There is no required next step.
The heart knows what the mind often tries to ignore.
When we listen, God leads. When we align, we win.
.- Rev Hollie Lopes
You're Not AloneTogether, we can go Beyond The Next Win.