Pause.
Understand your heart.
Take a meaningful next step.
Heart Checkā¢ 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 youāre 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, āCould this help with more than addiction? Could it address other issues of the heart?ā That question opened up a much broader vision.
You donāt 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 Iām 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.
Heart Check: 10ā15 minutes
Read Scripture: 15ā30 minutes
Journal: 15ā30 minutes
Close with one worship song or 5ā10 minutes in the Pause app.
The Pause app is a separate resource from John Eldredgeās Wild at Heart ministry.
