Our Standards

YourHeartly Review Board

Our Review Board provides an additional layer of professional oversight for selected content, helping us improve accuracy, context, and responsible communication across topics where subject-matter expertise can add meaningful value.

What Professional Review Means

Professional review is an additional editorial check. It does not necessarily mean that an article was written by a professional or that every statement represents the reviewer’s personal opinion.

Where applicable, the article will identify the reviewer and provide information about their relevant qualifications or expertise.

Why We Have a Review Board

Relationship Content Deserves Thoughtful Review.

Relationship questions can involve communication, emotional wellbeing, family dynamics, psychology, marriage, conflict, and other subjects where professional knowledge can provide useful context.

Our Review Board exists to provide an additional layer of oversight for selected content where professional expertise is relevant.

Reviewers may evaluate specific concepts, claims, language, or sensitive subject matter within their area of expertise. Their role is to help strengthen the quality and responsibility of the content—not to endorse every opinion or recommendation in an article.

The Reviewer’s Role

What Our Review Board Looks For

Reviewers focus on areas where their knowledge can help readers receive clearer and more responsible information.

Conceptual Accuracy

Reviewers may evaluate whether psychological, relationship, behavioral, or other relevant concepts are represented accurately and with appropriate context.

Responsible Communication

Sensitive subjects should not be reduced to oversimplified conclusions. Reviewers can help identify language that may be misleading, overgeneralized, or lacking important context.

Supporting Claims

Where appropriate, reviewers can help identify claims that require stronger evidence, clearer qualification, or additional explanation.

Clarity & Context

Expertise can help ensure that complicated ideas are communicated in a way that is understandable without stripping away important context.

Potentially Misleading Advice

Reviewers may flag advice that could be interpreted too broadly or that presents one experience as universal.

Reader Usefulness

The ultimate goal is to help readers understand the subject more clearly and make sense of the information presented.

Reviewer Standards

Who Can Serve on the Review Board?

Relevant Education

Reviewers should have educational training relevant to the subject areas they are asked to evaluate.

Professional Experience

Practical professional experience can provide important context when evaluating real-world relationship and behavioral topics.

Relevant Credentials

Where applicable, we consider professional licenses, certifications, registrations, or other relevant credentials.

Subject-Matter Expertise

The reviewer’s expertise should match the subject matter being reviewed rather than being presented as general expertise in everything related to relationships.

Meet the Review Board

The People Behind the Review

Our reviewers are selected for their relevant education, professional qualifications, experience, and subject-matter expertise.

Andrew Jones

CEO

Mariah Cannon

CfO

Mike Sanders

MANAGER

Meet the Review Board

We Want You to Know How Our Content Is Created.

Professional review is not used to imply that every YourHeartly article has been individually reviewed by an expert. Instead, selected content may receive additional professional review when subject-matter expertise can meaningfully improve the article.
When professional review is applicable, we aim to clearly identify the reviewer and provide information about their relevant expertise.