Blog | Chip Dodd

Mar 12, 2019
4 min

Am I Addicted?

Addiction conjures up many pictures that allow us to see it as someone else’s problem or a malady that strikes home for other people. The...

Mar 5, 2019
5 min

Normal Vs. Addiction

When a child is born, the medical professionals do the Apgar, a test to quickly acquire an overall assessment of the newborn’s well being...

Feb 26, 2019
9 min

Addiction: The Invisible Dragon

We are suffering a pandemic of addiction in America, indicating an emotional and spiritual crisis of massive proportions. We are in the m...

Feb 19, 2019
4 min

The Emotional and Relational Cost of Addiction

According to recent statistics gathered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), 23.5 million Americans...

Feb 12, 2019
3 min

Humiliation Doesn’t Have to Be

Is the experience of humiliation normal? Although the experience of humiliation is extremely common, it is not normal. We were born with ...

Jan 22, 2019
3 min

The Common Sense of Needs

I wrote a book called The Needs of the Heart. It is a simple book that speaks to how we are created to need, and describes specific needs...

Jan 15, 2019
3 min

Thriving and Prosperity

You and I are created as emotional and spiritual creatures, created to live fully. We find life to the full through emotional and spiritu...

Jan 8, 2019
2 min

Craving Well

To feel a powerful desire for (something) is to crave. Synonyms are long for, yearn for, desire, want, wish for, hunger for, thirst for, ...

Jan 2, 2019
2 min

Hope’s Daring in 2019

The ever-present temptation towards apathy or resignation is the reason hope is so daring and risky. Hope awakens us to wonder, dreams, p...

Dec 27, 2018
2 min

O Holy Night

My father died December 18, 2010. The song O Holy Night was sung at his funeral. It was beautiful and fitting. It celebrates a light in t...

Dec 18, 2018
2 min

I Believe it Like Air

I want to share something about Christmas. Before I do, however, I want to state that I have seen enough, experienced enough, learned eno...

Dec 11, 2018
2 min

Heart

The heart is the center of one’s being. Out of the heart we feel, need, desire, long, and hope. The heart is comprised of these core area...

Dec 4, 2018
2 min

The Courage of Sadness

Sadness is the attachment-caring feeling. It comes when what matters to us turns out differently than what we imagined, hoped, or worked ...

Nov 27, 2018
1 min

A Parent List

Our lives as parents must not be about perfection, but about the courage of affection. We live our affection clearly and courageously thr...

Nov 20, 2018
2 min

Life Doesn’t Stop

The river of life never stops and the cycles of living move in never ending circles. The sparrows keep chirping in the nearby trees while...

Nov 12, 2018
2 min

Just One Moment on a Monday

I remember one morning when I prepared to head into Dallas for work. It was very early; some days I began my practice as a therapist at 6...

Nov 6, 2018
3 min

Hope of the Heart

The following is an excerpt from the book, The Perfect Loss: A Different Kind of Happiness. It is a book about returning to hope, and red...

Oct 30, 2018
3 min

The Value of Self-Awareness

There is a famous acronym in the wisdom of Alcoholics Anonymous called H.A.L.T. It is a very valuable self-awareness tool that can mark t...

Oct 23, 2018
2 min

Four Parental Responsibilities

What follows are four gifts that we can give our children (of any age), and those gifts will be delivered imperfectly: We can take respon...

Oct 16, 2018
2 min

Laying Claim, Not Blame

When you or I say to someone, “I feel sad” about some loss, or “I feel lonely” about some disconnection, we are simply laying claim to ou...

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