This episode explores the distinction between emotional "adults" who mask vulnerability and true "grown-ups" who find strength in dependence on God, others, and their own hearts. Drawing from Psalm 8 and the Christmas miracle, the discussion highlights that true human dignity and our assignment for dominion stem from the original, dependent strength ordained by the Creator in infancy.

October to April is a time of both magical anticipation and inevitable grief, as the holidays awaken our deepest longings for family, friends, and fellowship. Discover why it's essential to allow yourself to grieve losses while concentrating on the joy of healthy relationships, the true key to a fulfilling holiday season.

In this episode of Living with Heart, Chip and Bryan discuss the The Fours Characteristics of Helping Children Develop Thriving Skills.

This episode explores the final six characteristics of a healthy family and how flexibility, accountability, forgiveness, and humility create a functional home. Chip and Bryan explore practical ways parents can nurture emotional, spiritual, and relational growth, focusing on progress over perfection. Build stronger family connections by embracing grace, healthy boundaries, and authentic communication.

Discover what truly makes a family healthy and functional - not perfect. In this podcast, Chip and Bryan explore six key principles and twelve core characteristics that nurture open communication, emotional safety, and spiritual growth in families, friendships, and marriages. Learn how humility, love, and consistency can transform your relationships into spaces of healing and connection.

Chip and Bryan explore the timeless truth revealed in The Good Life by Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz that genuine relationships are the foundation of health, happiness, and fulfillment. In today’s digital age, where screens and AI distract us from emotional connection, this podcast invites listeners to rediscover what it means to live fully, love deeply, and lead well.

In this episode of Living with Heart, discover faith-based insights on responsible parenting - embracing humility, healing, and growth as lifelong works in progress.

In this episode, Chip and Bryan explore the deeper meaning of remembering, beyond simply recalling facts, to truly “re-member” ourselves by integrating emotions, experiences, and relationships. Chip shares how parents can grow emotionally and spiritually by acknowledging distance, practicing daily remembrance, and facing the impossible, creating deeper connections with their children and with God.

In this episode of Living with Heart, Chip and Bryan explore 4 unchangeable realities of life: our imperfection, struggle, dependence, and the need for humility. Learn how embracing struggle can deepen connection, reduce stress, and build resilience in both parents and children.

Big results often come from simple actions, and true leadership begins with responsibility, consistency, and care. Whether in parenting, marriage, friendship, or leadership, practicing small, intentional habits creates trust, belonging, and excellence. By modeling responsibility through daily actions, parents, leaders, and partners can inspire growth, respect, and lasting community.

Parenting with heart is about being present, relatable, and faithful, not about striving for perfection. Children don’t need flawless parents—they long for emotionally connected, values-driven moms and dads who guide them with love, faith, and resilience. By embracing struggles, modeling truth, and supporting their child’s God-given identity, parents build lasting relationships rooted in trust and grace.

In this episode of Living with Heart: From Birth to Death, discover the powerful Equation for the Gifts of Feelings—Willingness + Patience + Work + Time = Gifts. This life-changing process shows how emotions like sadness, anger, loneliness, and even shame can transform into healing, hope, joy, and deeper connection with God and others. Learn how practicing the Equation empowers you to live fully, love deeply, and lead well.

Discover the difference between contact and true connection in Episode #83 of Keeping Heart. This powerful story reveals how real relationships—rooted in truth, vulnerability, and love—heal loneliness, restore families, and feed the heart in ways technology never can. Join the conversation on what it means to live fully, love deeply, and lead well through genuine connection.

Drawing from The Voice of the Heart, Needs of the Heart, and Keeping Heart, this conversation emphasizes how relationships and communion restore us to live fully and love deeply. Listeners are invited into a journey of facing feelings, embracing community, and discovering the perseverance and passion that love requires.

In this episode inspired by Keeping Heart by Dr. Chip Dodd, we explore the life-changing truth of living from a Be-Do-Have posture rather than the exhausting cycle of Do-Have-Become. Rooted in the Spiritual Root System, Dr. Dodd reminds us that fulfillment comes only through honest relationship with ourselves, others, and God. This conversation invites us to live fully, love deeply, and lead well, leaving a legacy of goodness.

This episode of Living with Heart explores Dr. Chip Dodd's book, Keeping Heart, and how The Spiritual Root System offers biblical wisdom on nurturing feelings, needs, desire, longings, and hope to live fully, love deeply, and leave a lasting legacy.

In this new season of the podcast Living with Heart: From Birth to Death, discover how Keeping Heart by Dr. Chip Dodd guides readers to live fully, love deeply, and lead well through short, reflective sections. Rooted in The Spiritual Root System™, this resource explores how feelings, needs, desires, longings, and hope shape a meaningful life in relationship with self, others, and God.

In this episode of the Living with Heart podcast, Dr. Chip Dodd unpacks the five pitfalls that silently sabotage leaders — from confusing work with worth to hiding behind secrets. Learn how daily practices of confession, admission, surrender, and acceptance lead to lasting recovery, connection, and the rediscovery of the true self God created.

In this episode of Living with Heart, discover how leaders can break free from the Five Pitfalls—performance-based identity, disconnection from self, and hidden shame—by embracing the truth of their emotional and spiritual design. This powerful episode offers hopeful steps toward freedom, healing, and full-hearted living through vulnerability, confession, and relational recovery.