Is Heart Check only for addiction struggles?

No. Heart Check began with an addiction recovery assessment and grew into a tool for reflecting on everyday hurts, hang-ups, habits, and struggles. It invites any Christian to pause, consider what is happening beneath the surface, and take a meaningful next step with God and someone they trust.

Yes. Heart Check is currently free to use, including your personalized feedback email and optional sharing with someone you trust. I wanted cost to be one less barrier to taking a meaningful step toward honesty, understanding, and support.

Do I have to share my results?

No. Sharing your results with a trusted friend, accountability partner, pastor, or counselor is optional. You can complete Heart Check without choosing someone to receive your results. If you choose to share, that person receives a more comprehensive email to help guide a caring, thoughtful conversation.

Does Heart Check replace counseling?

No. Heart Check is a reflection and support tool. It can help you recognize patterns, put words to your struggles, and prepare for a meaningful conversation. It does not diagnose conditions or replace pastoral counseling, professional mental health care, or medical care.

Pause.
Understand your heart.
Take a meaningful next step.

Heart Check™ is a free, Christian-centered tool that helps you reflect on your hurts, hang-ups, habits, and everyday struggles. Receive personalized feedback and choose to share your results with someone you trust.

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What Heart Check Offers

Understand what is happening beneath the surface and take a practical step toward honesty, connection, and growth.

An Honest
Check-In

Reflect on your emotions, habits, and everyday struggles. Receive a color-based status to help you consider where you are and what support may be helpful.

Personalized Guidance

Receive an email with feedback and practical next steps based on your responses.

Support from Someone You Trust

Choose to share your results with a trusted friend, accountability partner, pastor, or counselor. They receive a more detailed email to help guide a caring conversation.

Who Can Use Heart Check?

For your own heart. For the people you care for. Heart Check helps Christians reflect honestly and prepare for meaningful conversations with God and others.

Individuals

Reflect privately, begin your morning with God, or prepare to share what you’re carrying with someone you trust.

Pastors and Ministry Leaders

Invite someone to complete Heart Check before a pastoral conversation to help them express what is happening beneath the surface.

Counselors and Counseling Practices

Invite clients to complete Heart Check before a session as a starting point for reflection and conversation.

Christian Medical Clinicians

Invite patients to reflect on emotional and spiritual concerns they may want to discuss alongside their medical care.

Recovery Ministries

Encourage honest check-ins and supportive conversations in Celebrate Recovery and other Christian recovery groups.

Trusted Friends and Accountability Partners

Use the feedback someone chooses to share with you to guide a caring conversation, ask thoughtful questions, and explore next steps together.

Why I Created
Heart Check

What began with addiction recovery grew into something for every Christian.

I originally set out to create a more mobile-friendly version of the FASTER addiction recovery assessment. But as people tried it, they began asking, “Could this help with more than addiction? Could it address other issues of the heart?” That question opened up a much broader vision.

You don’t have to struggle with addiction to experience anxiety, resentment, exhaustion, avoidance, or disconnection from God and others. I wanted to create a tool that could help Christians recognize what they are carrying, bring it honestly before God, and find words to share it with someone they trust.

Heart Check grew from that desire. It offers personal reflection and practical guidance while also helping trusted friends support one another through meaningful conversations. I wanted that first step to be accessible, which is why Heart Check is currently free.

Joshua Meyer, M.Div.
Founder, Restoration Counseling Ministries

How I Begin My Day
with God

I begin with Heart Check to become aware of what I’m carrying and bring my heart before God. Then I read Scripture, journal with gratitude, and close with worship or prayerful surrender. You can adapt this rhythm to your own morning.

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Heart Check: 10–15 minutes
Read Scripture: 15–30 minutes
Journal: 15–30 minutes
Close with one worship song or 5–10 minutes in the Pause app.

The Pause app is a separate resource from John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart ministry.

Begin Your Heart Check

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Pause.
Understand your heart.
Take a meaningful next step.