127 - Get You (Map to Freedom)
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The Map of Freedom is a diagram of the steps and the process through which we can gain when we reclaim our makeup as God predesigned us.
The steps and growth set us free to give our gifts, trust outcomes to God, walk in integrity, and lead well. (See The Map of Freedom in Free Resources)
The process of growth can overcome toxic shame, false rules, imposed roles, and survival scripts that block a person from being and doing who and what God designed them to be and do.
Arriving at the “places” that The Map guides a person toward, takes a person from hearing about something to experiencing something. It is the difference between hearing about the giant Sequoia trees and the experience of standing beneath one.
As stated in the last show notes, the journey requires many switchbacks; is often slow; and takes a lifetime.
We all hope to be able be productive in life and live fully until we die. We all wish to have an impact for good, unless something is terribly impaired about a person.
We live fully with impact by being able to give; having trust in God with the outcomes; having integrity; and leading well. The result is freedom.
But this freedom isn’t free. We must walk, work, and persevere with an image in mind and the heart involved to pull us forward every day.
The beginning steps of “get you” and “be you”
Get you: Recognize, reclaim, and learn the makeup and purpose of being a feeling, needing, desiring, longing, and hoping creature, who is created to find fullness of life in relationship. Relational connection that affirms and confirms one’s makeup supports a sense of belonging and mattering in a person.
Be you: With a sense of inborn confidence and external affirmation, you express yourself as a human being who feels and is made for relationship. You express your true self without toxic shame being the ruler over your expression.
Please see The Voice of the Heart and The Voice of the Heart: A Companion Study to gain clarity about the makeup of a human being as an emotional and spiritual creature. “Get you” and “Be you” are elucidated in the first two chapters.
Freedom isn’t free.
To be able to recognize yourself as fully alive, will mean that you become able to struggle well with the problems and challenges of life. No one is perfect. We are all Works in Progress (WIPs). Freedom requires desire, risk, and the ability to tolerate feelings that come with hope and desire.
The learning process requires four experiences as we “show up” for living in such a way that we “offer” ourselves or “give you” to life:
Failure is not an option; it is an inevitability.
Feeling comes with risk and inevitable outcomes that allow us to process failure.
Struggle becomes the ability face, feel, and deal with problems, developing “frustration tolerance.”
Learning on an experiential level grows a person to “know” fully and grasp the full meaning of what they are gaining.
The freedom we begin to gain as we become able to face, feel, and deal with life on life’s terms without giving up or hiding out, sets the course for growth, as we step into the next phase of development on The Map of Freedom.
Get you > Be you > Give you >
> Feel your feelings > Tell the truth > Give it to the process >
> Passion > Intimacy > Integrity >
> Live fully > Love deeply > Lead well
Dr. Chip Dodd
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