Are you exhausted from trying to control everything? Based on Chip Dodd's The Voice of the Heart, this episode redefines surrender not as giving up, but as a beneficial step toward healing, recovery, and deep relationship. Learn how moving from anxiety to healthy dependency empowers you to live life fully and freely.

Discover the profound difference between anger and rage as explored in Chip Dodd's The Voice of the Heart. Learn how true anger is a gift of passion and vulnerability that drives us to care for what matters most, rather than a destructive force of reactivity. This podcast highlight unpacks how to find your anger, embrace hope, and channel your passion to do good things in a destructive world.

Parenting doesn't come with a magic wand, but you can become the "safe place to land" your children need to face life's ultimate challenges. Discover how letting your kids fail, feel, struggle, and learn builds a resilient, lifelong bond. Learn how to transform your parenting by becoming a portable sanctuary of empathy, truth, and hope for your children at any age.

Discover what it truly means to live creatively by moving from imagination to bold action. Grounded in faith and the emotional courage to face rejection, this episode explores how embracing vulnerability and holy anger can unlock the unique gifts God stitched inside you to help heal a broken world.

Discover how to break free from the world's performance-driven culture and embrace the biblical design of being who God created you to be. Explore how nurturing your spiritual relationships with God, yourself, and others naturally unlocks a life of authentic creativity, internal worth, and purposeful productivity. Learn what it truly means to live fully, love deeply, and lead well by anchoring your identity in God’s design.

Discover how the intersection of human anthropology and theology creates a pathway to true relational closeness with God. By embracing our vulnerability and "crying out" from our neediness, we move beyond cognitive belief into a transformative, heart-centered intimacy with our Creator.

True friendship is built on the pillars of time, trust, and truth-telling, acting as a vital support system that ensures you never have to face life's storms alone. By creating a "list" of genuine confidants who desire your good, you gain the resilience to stay on mission and find strength through the ultimate connection with others and God.

Embrace the "life to the full" promised in John 10:10 by connecting your head to your heart and cultivating deep self-awareness. By trading ego for a dependent relationship with God, you can move past self-defense to live authentically, love vulnerably, and lead with purpose.

Recovery is a lifelong path, not a pill, replacing the "foggy glasses" of addiction with a clear reality lived one day at a time. By following the 12-Step roadmap, you can break the cycle of addiction to reclaim your true self and find spiritual freedom. This journey restores your emotional health, allowing you to live fully and build deep connections with others and God.

True recovery is a daily lifestyle of trading the "foggy glasses" of denial for a clear reality rooted in surrender and self-awareness. By understanding the resistance to change and the roles of the co-addict, you can break cycles of control addiction and find the serenity to accept what you cannot change.

Breaking free from the "winner vs. loser" mindset is the first step toward true recovery, shifting the focus from toxic shame to the power of admission. By acknowledging what holds us captive, we move past denial and toward a life of passion and wholeness where success is defined by pursuit rather than ranking.

This episode explores the profound difference between healthy shame and toxic shame, revealing how the rejection of our innate needs and feelings leads to a "human doing" cycle and addiction. Learn how to reclaim your God-given self-worth and break free from the "defective" narrative by returning to authentic connection and emotional vulnerability.

Learn how addiction operates as a feelings disorder rooted in toxic shame and the defense of denial. This episode of Living with Heart: From Birth to Death explores how counterfeit connections replace true intimacy and how the addictive process prevents us from living, loving, and leading as we were created to do.

Join Chip Dodd and Bryan Barley in Season 9 of the Living with Heart: From Birth to Death Podcast as they dive into the topic of addiction.

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, 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.

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.

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.