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.

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.

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.

Discover the five interconnected pitfalls that can trap leaders in cycles of performance, isolation, and secrecy. Learn how secrets sap purpose and passion, leading to burnout and addiction—until hope and healing interrupt the descent. This episode highlights how leaders can return to authenticity, connection, and true leadership through vulnerability and recovery.

This powerful episode highlights the fourth pitfall of leadership—the isolation of the true self. Dr. Chip Dodd reveals how perfectionism, denial of needs, and toxic shame isolate leaders from their humanity, driving them toward burnout and counterfeit coping strategies. Learn how healing begins with admitting the need for help and embracing dependency resilience.

Discover the five interconnected pitfalls that quietly unravel a leader’s purpose, passion, and relationships—starting when people become things. In this episode of Living with Heart, Dr. Chip Dodd reveals how work addiction, emotional denial, and loss of vulnerability fuel a toxic, fear-based culture. Learn how self-awareness, humility, and asking for help can restore the leader’s heart and relationships.

Discover how performance-driven leadership can erode presence, relationships, and purpose in Living with Heart, a podcast by Dr. Chip Dodd and Bryan Barley. This episode discusses how performance begins to be valued more than one’s presence.