Living with Heart: From Birth to Death

The "Living with Heart" Podcast is brought to you by Chip Dodd Resources (www.chipdodd.com) and The Voice of the Heart Center (vothcenter.com). To consult or setup a session with Bryan, you can e-mail bryan@vothcenter.com.   Episode Highlights   The focus of this episode is a recording of a men’s retreat that Chip did in Texas in 1993. The retreat  content was edited and put on CDs. The CDs were included with the first edition copies of The Voice of the Heart published in 2001.     You’ve got to get defeated to become rich in this “God world”.    God says that what He is after is our hearts. Our hearts that He made, that He created, that He  loves.    “But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him.    They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.” Jeremiah 17:7-8 (NIV)    What is feeding the roots of the tree? Its roots are planted in what feeds it, and it receives emotional and spiritual food.    God feeds our hearts with emotional and spiritual food.     God stamps our hearts with feelings, needs, desire, longings, and hope at birth. This is what God is after. This is what puts us into a relationship with the God of our forefathers.   Through our feelings, needs, desire, longings, and hope we end up growing into a strong person who others can love and trust.     Torment in our lives does not come from exposing the truth about our hearts; torment comes from the energy we take to keep our hearts hidden.    We are as sick as the secrets we keep within us, from the smallest manipulation to the largest  secret.    The difference between an unhealthy family and a healthy family is the willingness to seek forgiveness. Healthy families seek forgiveness.    Truths:  Pain of the heart is the teacher.  Love is the lesson.  Life is the result.  Sharing that is the practice.   God loves us so much that He will go to any length to get us back. There is nothing we can do to earn it. God doesn’t need anything we have.     God does not need us:   He craves us.  He wants us.  He wishes to be with us.    Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!” “I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.” Luke 19:39-40 (NIV)    God doesn’t need us; We need Him. The price we pay for needing Him is having to go through the  excruciating and glorious pain of being loved, without being able to do anything to get it.    What we can do is live out our salvation. He is the way, the truth, and the life. He came to bring life  and life abundantly.     Click here to continue reading episode highlights.

The "Living with Heart" Podcast is brought to you by Chip Dodd Resources (www.chipdodd.com) and The Voice of the Heart Center (vothcenter.com). To consult or setup a session with Bryan, you can e-mail bryan@vothcenter.com. Episode Highlights The focus of this episode is a recording of a retreat that Chip did in Texas in 1993. The retreat  content was edited and put on CDs. The CDs were included with the first edition copies of  The Voice of the Heart published in 2001.   The CD intro song is “Capshaw.” The banjo is played by John Balch. It is available on iTunes and  Spotify. John’s website is hidebanjoheads.com.  Living With Heart Podcast “Becoming a Portable Sanctuary” Episode 26  The message on the CD is just as true today as it was in 1993 when Chip did the retreat.  Our God absolutely looks toward us, moves into our world, and changes our lives, not a little, but a lot, not as an event, but as a journey.    Our God is not a god of an event; He is the God of the journey and the God of relationship. God is also our destiny.  “Then the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?” Genesis 3:9 (NASB)  “…Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of  life.” Revelation 22:17 (NIV)  God is in pursuit of our hearts; He is in pursuit of what He created.  “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.”  Psalm 139:13  When we came into this world, we were stamped with the image of God. God made us in His image.  You and I were created to live fully. We were created as emotional and spiritual creatures,  created to live fully in relationship with myself, with others, and with God.   We are made to live fully in 3D.  We’re made to feel it.  We’re made to seek it.  We’re made to hurt over it.  We’re made to laugh about it.  We’re made to take joy in it.  We’re made to hunger, seek, and ask.  We’re made for play, and work, and creation, and sharing.  We are made in the image of God! Everything about life is about relationship.  The 18” journey from our heads to our hearts is the longest journey that we will ever take. It is a  journey of wholeness. The journey never ends. If we don’t make that 18” journey, we will be a  failure. We will fail within the walls of our own home and we will never be of maximum service. Click here to continue reading episode highlights.

Exploring awakening, acquiring skills, and arriving as Portable Sanctuaries. Embracing emotional connections, vulnerability, and authenticity for personal growth. Importance of self-reflection, emotional work, and transformative leadership. Navigating parenthood while maintaining independence and identity. Essential questions for self-discovery and fulfillment in relationships with others and a higher power.

The "Living with Heart" Podcast is brought to you by Chip Dodd Resources (www.chipdodd.com) and The Voice of the Heart Center (vothcenter.com). To consult or setup a session with Bryan, you can e-mail bryan@vothcenter.com.   Episode Highlights   We cannot escape the way God designed us. (Only addiction gives us the illusion that we can.)   There is no escape from our design. We’re designed by God as feeling creatures who are spiritually hungry and craving. We’re designed to do one thing in this life, live fully. And we can’t live fully unless we are doing so in relationship with ourselves, others, and God. And being fully alive, expresses God’s glory. “The glory of God is man fully alive.”  Saint Irenaeus A human being who is fully alive as God created us to be, is God glorified, because He created us to shape, make, do, multiply, create, serve, help, etc. It means to care when others quit; to continue on when others stop; and to walk when others lie down.    Where do we draw the strength and courage to carry on? It comes from God Who generously gives it to us. Given to us so that we can give it away to others. God made us to live like that.   Once we give ourselves to The Process, we have gotten off The Ladder. We are living in the River of Euphoria. The river takes us forward to becoming a Portable Sanctuary.   More on Euphoria River in Episode 18, “Living Fully in ‘The River”   FREE DOWNLOAD > River of Euphoria    What is “The River of Euphoria” or “Euphoria River”?  Euphoria means “good bearing.” The River of Good Bearing. It means to bear life well. Live the good life. It’s a flow. It’s a promise. It’s a process.   The river is where we meet God’s faithfulness. We want to live fully in The Euphoria River. This means we are moving in a particular direction, going somewhere specific. And it leads us to a place that is called a “portable sanctuary”.   Euphoria means “to bear well”. Hyperphoria is an escape to action. It is anxiety-driven. Hypophoria is an escape to apathy or escape-to-control. Both hyperphoria and hypophoria are about escaping having to feel.   The Three Movements of living fully, that move us into becoming Portable Sanctuaries are: Awaken-to return to or awaken to feelings, needs, desire, longings, and hope and imagine what can happen if you enter living fully again. Acquire-gaining the skills required to live my passion and my purpose.  Arrive-you have become a portable sanctuary, a person who others can come to. You can relate to them, and they can relate to you. You can have your feelings heard and your needs addressed.   Once you awaken and begin to be in pursuit of the life you’re made to have, you need to know how to do hurt, sadness, loss, celebration, grief, hope, desire, needs, and fear; in other words, we live life as feeling creatures who have to struggle.   Click here to continue reading the highlights.

Click here to read the episode highlights.   The "Living with Heart" Podcast is brought to you by Chip Dodd Resources (www.chipdodd.com) and The Voice of the Heart Center (vothcenter.com). Contact Bryan Barley for coaching at bryan@vothcenter.com.    “The Process”  Feel your feelings, tell the truth about your feelings, and trust God with the process, because He owns the process.   Free Downloadable Resource - The Ladder (https://www.chipdodd.com/free-resources-download)   The Ladder is a disrupter of The Process. If you get trapped on The Ladder, you will miss The Process and you will miss the actual “arrival” that you’re created to have because you never acquired the skills of living fully.   We are created for connection; created to find fulfillment through relationship with ourselves, others and God.   Parents often want to prevent their children from having to experience the pains of the world, so they teach them to act in an “acceptable” way; they teach them to perform. The result is, children wind up giving up their presence (God given uniqueness) and putting performance in the place of how God made them.   We come out of the womb with healthy shame. Examples: I am going to make mistakes. I’m dependent. I can’t help but be fully present. I can’t help but be in need. I’m a feeling creature. If something is sad or I lose something, I’m going to cry. If I walk into the dark, I need someone to hold my hand, etc.    Webinar on Shame > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0Pjb6EsAGI    We are created to find fulfillment through relationships. When this need isn’t met through relationship, we will give up our God-given identity and start looking to others to fulfill what they want from us, and claim a false identity, in order to find fulfillment through belonging and mattering.    “Adorning the Dark” by Andrew Peterson   “Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.” Psalm 8:2 (NIV)   “And he said: ‘Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.’”  Matthew 18:3 (NIV)   Once healthy shame is rejected, once it becomes not okay to make mistakes, once it becomes not okay to be in need, once one becomes distrusting of questions, an unwillingness to risk having answers/ideas, and once we start to have to be more than human, we lose connection with healthy shame.   Healthy shame is a dependency feeling that allows us to have the humility to be people who can be of equal worth to other people. We have the same needs. We have the same heartaches. We have the same struggles. We have the same feelings.   “It’s a Small World” is considered a children’s song, but it is so deep and rich. The lyrics are pure and true for everyone, young and old.  https://youtu.be/2rTZ9UndNeI?si=5OhagIXRyS3socj5    Click here to continue reading highlights from this episode.

The "Living with Heart" Podcast is brought to you by Chip Dodd Resources (www.chipdodd.com) and The Voice of the Heart Center (vothcenter.com). To consult or setup a session with Bryan, you can e-mail bryan@vothcenter.com.   Dr. Chip Dodd  Website  Chip’s Free Resources link  Subscribe to Chip’s website Follow Chip on Instagram  Facebook Link  Linked In  Find Chip on YouTube Chip's Amazon Author Page     Voice of the Heart Center Website Subscribe to the Voice of the Heart Center website  Instagram Facebook

In this podcast, Dr. Chip Dodd and Brian Barley discuss the importance of trusting the process and embracing authenticity in life. They delve into the significance of vulnerability, letting go of control, and differentiating fantasy from imagination. The conversation highlights the challenges of navigating life's expectations and emphasizes the importance of trusting a higher power and embracing life's fullness.

The "Living with Heart" Podcast is brought to you by Chip Dodd Resources (www.chipdodd.com) and The Voice of the Heart Center (vothcenter.com). To consult or setup a session with Bryan, you can e-mail bryan@vothcenter.com.   Dr. Chip Dodd  Website  Chip’s Free Resources link  Subscribe to Chip’s website Follow Chip on Instagram  Facebook Link  Linked In  Find Chip on YouTube Chip's Amazon Author Page     Voice of the Heart Center Website Subscribe to the Voice of the Heart Center website  Instagram Facebook

The "Living with Heart" Podcast is brought to you by Chip Dodd Resources (www.chipdodd.com) and The Voice of the Heart Center (vothcenter.com). To consult or setup a session with Bryan, you can e-mail bryan@vothcenter.com.   Dr. Chip Dodd  Website  Chip’s Free Resources link  Subscribe to Chip’s website Follow Chip on Instagram  Facebook Link  Linked In  Find Chip on YouTube Chip's Amazon Author Page     Voice of the Heart Center Website Subscribe to the Voice of the Heart Center website  Instagram Facebook

The "Living with Heart" Podcast is brought to you by Chip Dodd Resources (www.chipdodd.com) and The Voice of the Heart Center (vothcenter.com). To consult or setup a session with Bryan, you can e-mail bryan@vothcenter.com.   Dr. Chip Dodd  Website  Chip’s Free Resources link  Subscribe to Chip’s website Follow Chip on Instagram  Facebook Link  Linked In  Find Chip on YouTube Chip's Amazon Author Page     Voice of the Heart Center Website Subscribe to the Voice of the Heart Center website  Instagram Facebook