Caring Enough to Confront
Learn how to confront with love and courage by using “I feel… when you…” statements that express truth without blame. This article by Dr. Chip Dodd explains how healthy confrontation differs from conflict, helping you communicate with honesty, vulnerability, and care to strengthen your relationships.
Early Emotional Trauma
A simple email from a fertility clinic unlocked memories I thought were long healed, reminding me that our bodies never forget. This article explores how unprocessed trauma lives in both mind and body—and how compassionate, multi-layered healing can restore hope and wholeness.
Boundaries: Where Self-Respect Begins and Resentment Ends
Boundaries are gentle acts of self-respect that protect your time, energy, and emotional well-being. They create space for honest connection by honoring your needs and staying true to who you are. Healthy boundaries begin with self-worth and are essential for authentic, sustainable relationships.
The Power of Powerlessness
Our powerlessness invites us to grow through honest connection with ourselves, others, and God. Embracing this need sets us free to live with strength through vulnerability.
Breaking Free from Codependency: Rediscovering Your Heart
Breaking free from codependency involves setting healthy boundaries and rediscovering your true self, allowing for genuine emotional connection and freedom. By learning to honor your needs and embrace healthy dependency, you can move beyond control and experience true intimacy and joy in relationships.
Learning From Clive
“You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all…our memory is coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing…” (Luis Bunuel)
Emotional Amnesia
“It takes great courage to stay connected to our hearts as we live in a tragic world. Yet, the restoration of personal freedom is well worth the pain.” Blog written by Dr. Colton Shannon
A Good Reason to Remember
Reflecting on past experiences and acknowledging emotions is essential not as an end goal, but as a necessary step towards healing, growth, and living fully.
“Fear of Children” by Dr. Chip Dodd
“Fear of Children” by Dr. Chip Dodd
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Longing for a Place Called “HOME”
Explore the connection between hurt and care, especially during the holiday season, as we long for the comfort and connection of home. Learn how embracing emotional and spiritual nourishment can help you find peace and acceptance amidst unfulfilled longings.
Grounding Isn’t Just For Hippies
We live in a fast-paced world, and chances are, you’re tired. Grounding is a wonderfully simple tool to help us feel the gifts of our feelings: acceptance, increased awareness of God, connection, gladness.
Limbic Regulation and Revision: Shaping Your Future
Limbic regulation is how our brains manage emotions within relationships. Limbic revision allows us to reshape our emotional landscape. How might limbic regulation and revision shape your future? Find out more!
Limbic Resonance: What Did You Learn Growing Up?
Limbic resonance is the brain’s ability to sense unspoken dynamics in relationships. Reflect on your own upbringing. These early relational experiences trained your brain to navigate the world in a certain way, and they continue to influence how you relate to others today.
The Deer and Her Fawn
As a parent, what will that do for us to live in a bigger story ourselves? What if our children learn from us, not because we do grand things, but because by engaging with our own hearts, we will begin to live the greatness that is uniquely in us.
Raising Children with Heart in a World of Super Parenting
Parenting is one of life’s greatest challenges, but it’s also one of the most important opportunities we have to shape the next generation. Instead of striving for perfection, we can choose to raise our children with heart.
What Children Want
“Children need the caregivers to keep heart, and help them do the same in a world that can pull us all away from the core of who we are created to become and what we are created to do.” -Dr. Chip Dodd
Is Codependency a Useful Term?
At the Voice of the Heart Center, we believe that codependency is still a useful word to explain a phenomenon we see every day in each person that has the courage to do recovery of heart work.
The Power of Intensives: Getting Unstuck
The intensive process can be many things, but its primary function is to help someone start to make progress again. To help them get unstuck, replenished, reprovisioned, and oriented. To look at the map of their life with them and plot not only where they are but where they want to go.
A Toxic Shame Solution - EMDR
Discover how EMDR therapy can help alleviate trauma and shame. Learn from a professional counselor about the nature of trauma, the destructive power of shame, and the benefits of faith-based healing. Explore the insights from the Living With Heart podcast on the essential role of emotions in personal growth and connection. Understand how EMDR, combined with family therapy, can enhance emotional well-being, reduce shame, and improve self-esteem. Start your journey toward healing and recovery with the support of Christian counseling and effective therapeutic techniques.