Living with Heart: From Birth to Death

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134 - Intimacy (Map to Freedom) Sep 22, 2026

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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). You can connect with Dr. Chip Dodd at chip@chipdodd.com. Contact Bryan Barley for coaching at bryan@vothcenter.com.

133 - Passion (Map to Freedom) Sep 15, 2026

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132 - Trust the Process (Map to Freedom) Sep 08, 2026

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Go to FREE RESOURCES at chipdodd.com to download The Map of Freedom poster and descriptive material.

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
takes a lifetime

Unless something is terribly impaired about us, we all hope to be able to be productive in life and live fully until we die. We all wish to have an impact for good.

We live fully with impact by being able to:

give
trust God with the outcomes
have integrity
lead 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 need for expression

Human beings are created to be expressive creatures. We are created to use our minds to articulate and communicate what occurs in our hearts.

Expression communicates the need for connection, along with the boundaries that make us safe to trust connection.

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131 - Tell the Truth (Map to Freedom) Sep 01, 2026

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Go to FREE RESOURCES at chipdodd.com to download The Map of Freedom poster and descriptive material.

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.

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 to 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 need for expression

Human beings are created to be expressive creatures, created to use our minds to articulate and communicate what occurs our hearts.

Expression communicates the need for connection along with the boundaries that make us safe to trust connection.

Suppression of expression creates depression of the heart, which works against the nature of how we are created. Suppression is the use of the will, complicated by denial and dissociation, to “protect” one’s self.

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130 - Feel Your Feelings (Map to Freedom) Aug 25, 2026

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Go to FREE RESOURCES at chipdodd.com to download The Map of Freedom poster and descriptive material.

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.

The Map of Freedom is not so much about learning something as returning to something. We return to how we are made, then we learn to use what we have “rediscovered.”

We return to stewarding how God made us before we steward what God has given us the opportunity to do.

What is the benefit or payoff?

By returning to our origins:

We remember what it is like to hope and believe how “things in life could be,” instead of always focusing on what “things have turned into.”
We are defeated less and risk more.
We can picture how the world is meant to be and work towards that.
We truly see the “glass as half full,” while dealing in the reality that we do indeed live in a broken place where “hearts break and people die.”

The result is that the reawakened heart brings light to dark places with faith; creative solutions to destructive problems with hope; wisdom to struggles that seem unfathomable; and courage to places of danger.

A child grows into the man or woman that God designed instead of what the world molded them into.

The fourth movement of The Map of Freedom is “Feel Your Feelings.

The first three movements lead to a person into “re-trusting” how God created them and moves him/her to offer or “give” to others they need and others who need you. And “give you” to God, who created you.

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129 - Give You (Map to Freedom) Aug 18, 2026

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Go to FREE RESOURCES at chipdodd.com to download The Map of Freedom poster and descriptive material.

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.

The Map of Freedom is not so much about learning something as returning to something. We return to how we are made, then we learn to use what we have “rediscovered.”

We return to stewarding how God made us before we steward what God has given us the opportunity to do.

What is the benefit or payoff?

By returning to our origins:

We remember what it is like to hope and believe how “things in life could be,” instead of always focusing on what “things have turned into.”
We are defeated less and risk more.
We can picture how the world is meant to be and work towards that.
We truly see the “glass as half full,” while dealing in the reality that we do indeed live in a broken place where “hearts break and people die.”

The third movement of the Map of Freedom is “Give You”

To “give you” follows by its very nature and order what occurs when a person returns to how God created us to live fully, love deeply, and lead well by doing so in relationship with our own hearts, the hearts of others, and the heart of God.

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128 - Be You (Map to Freedom) Aug 11, 2026

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Click here to read the episode highlights.

Go to FREE RESOURCES at chipdodd.com to download The Map of Freedom poster and descriptive material.

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.

The Map of Freedom is not so much about learning something as returning to something. We return to how we are made, then we learn to use what we have “rediscovered.”

We return to stewarding how God made us before we steward what God has given us the opportunity to do.

What is the benefit or payoff?

By returning to our origins:

We remember what it is like to hope and believe how “things in life could be,” instead of always focusing on what “things have turned into.”
We are defeated less and risk more.
We can picture how the world is meant to be and work towards that.
We truly see the “glass as half full,” while dealing in the reality that we do indeed live in a broken place where “hearts break and people die.”

Click here to continue reading the episode highlights.

127 - Get You (Map to Freedom) Aug 04, 2026

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Click here to read the episode highlights.

Go to FREE RESOURCES at chipdodd.com to download The Map of Freedom poster and descriptive material.

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.

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Season 12: Episode 126 - The Map to Freedom (Intro) Jul 28, 2026

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125 - How Do We Finish Well? Jul 21, 2026

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