The Heart Journey Podcast with Dr. Barbara

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Move from weary, wounded, and disillusioned to living out the life you dream. Licensed Psychologist and Life Coach Dr. Barbara Lowe and her guests discuss how to move from stuck and painful places to flowing in your superpowers and passions. Listen to The Heart Journey Podcast with Dr. Barbara each week and be empowered to Really Live a Whole Life!

  1. 1D AGO

    Stop Striving. Start Enjoying | Sandra McCollom Ep86

    You're not alone if you feel exhausted from trying to "get it right." In this Flashback Friday episode, Dr. Barbara shares an archived conversation with Sandra McCollom on how beholding Jesus (2 Corinthians 3:18) transforms us, without striving, shame, or condemnation. If you've been living sin-conscious, self-conscious, or weighed down by pressure, this episode is a gentle invitation back to grace, rest, and Spirit-led transformation. Together, they explore what it means to shift from performance to presence and from inner criticism to surrender. Sandra also shares from her book, I Tried It Until I Almost Died, offering hope for anyone moving from anxiety and frustration into true rest and relaxation. Resources mentioned in this episode include a free self-parenting tool, ways to follow Dr. Barbara on social media, and Sandra's book. Chapters are included so you can jump to the part you need most. If you've been carrying heavy self-pressure, type "GRACE SHOWER" in the comments and share what line spoke to your heart.

    43 min

  2. 2D AGO

    From Codependence to Christ-Dependence_Part 19 What Does Relationship Repair Actually Feel Like Ep85

    Why does "I'm sorry" sometimes fall flat while true repair restores safety and wholeness? In this Heart Journey Podcast episode, Dr. Barbara Jean Sauvé explores repair as a spiritual discipline, a lived process that restores function after betrayal, affairs, friendship ruptures, divorce with poor closure, and relationships that refuse to reconcile. Through the powerful story of Bob Meisner and Audrey Meisner, she unpacks the long road of confession, transparency, humility, and grace that transforms devastation into a new marriage built on truth. Drawing from Scripture (Matthew 5:23–24, Matthew 7, Isaiah 43), attachment dynamics, nervous system trauma, and practical relationship research, this episode clarifies the difference between forgiveness and repair, why betrayal can feel like PTSD in the body, what separates "relationship masters" from "relationship disasters," and how overbonding and underbonding create unstable attachments. Dr. Barbara also teaches the non-negotiables of deep repair, full truth without trickle disclosures, ownership without defense, empathy for the injured nervous system, transparency over time, and sustained change.   The episode concludes with guided encounters with Jesus: surrendering a closed "room" of the heart, practicing empty-chair repair, releasing what is not yours to carry, and finding courage for living amends when closure is not given but claimed. You are not disqualified. You can become whole, even after betrayal.   RESOURCES & NEXT STEPS Self-Parenting Guide: drbarbaraministries.org/self-parent Pastoral Coaching (Christian worldview): drbarbaraministries.org → Coaching

    58 min

  3. 4D AGO

    Are You Fighting Evil… or Absorbing It? w/ Dr. Michelle Pearce Ep84

    The Heart Journey Podcast with Dr. Barbara

    46 min

  4. MAR 13

    Flashback Friday: What's REALLY Behind Your Marriage Tension w/ Shaunti Feldhahn Ep83

    What if the tension around money in your relationship isn't about numbers at all, but about fear, trust, and the heart? In this powerful Flashback Friday episode, Dr. Barbara revisits a deeply moving and research-grounded conversation from the 2021 World Women's Wholeness Summit with renowned Christian researcher Shaunti Feldhahn, exploring love, marriage, money, and wholeness after financial rupture. Together, they unpack why financial conflict is almost never about spreadsheets or budgets, and almost always about attachment, vulnerability, identity, and emotional safety. This episode reframes money tension in marriage through both data and faith, revealing how empathy, transparency, and spiritual insight create space for real repair. You'll hear why money conflict is emotional before it's technical, the hidden fears money activates, especially around provision and self-worth, how empathy lowers defensiveness and builds intimacy, why Jesus spoke so often about money, and how small moments of gratitude and vulnerability can shift an entire relationship dynamic. This conversation gently reveals that money doesn't just expose what's in the heart, it can also steer it. Whether you're navigating financial strain, healing after a money rupture, or longing for deeper intimacy and trust in your marriage, this episode offers wisdom, compassion, and hope for the holy work of repair.

    37 min

  5. MAR 12

    From Codependence to Christ-Dependence | Part 18: Betrayal — When "Sorry" Isn't Enough Ep82

    Repair isn't optional, it's the skill that keeps love alive. In this solo episode, Dr. Barbara Jean Lowe Sauvé unpacks repair and amends as both a Christian spiritual discipline and the single strongest predictor of relational health in modern research. Tracing a biblical arc from Jacob and Esau's reconciliation to national repair through Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, she shows how humility, restitution, and truth-telling restore dignity and moral order, whether in a family or a nation. Drawing from Scripture (Romans 5; 2 Corinthians 5:18–19; Galatians 6:1; Isaiah 61; Luke 4) and relationship science, this episode explains why every relationship requires repair, the difference between forgiveness (releasing the debt) and repair (restoring what's broken), and why conflict frequency doesn't predict relational collapse, failure to repair does. You'll learn the neurobiology of flooding and "amygdala hijack," why empathy goes offline under threat, how shame blocks repair, and how simple micro-repairs can step you off the triangle of pain and back into connection. The episode concludes with a guided encounter: revisiting your last big blow-up, noticing what your body felt, tracing it to earlier pain, and inviting Jesus, Safety Incarnate, to minister to the younger places in you. From there, you'll imagine a clean amends made from your most adult, regulated self, humility in action, without defense or self-condemnation. Forgiveness clears the ground. Repair builds the future. RESOURCES & NEXT STEPS Self-Parenting Guide: drbarbaraministries.org/self-parent Pastoral Coaching (Christian worldview): drbarbaraministries.org → Coaching

    1 hr

  6. MAR 10

    Can We Forgive the Unforgivable? Dr. Everette Worthington on Finding God Again Ep81

    The Heart Journey Podcast with Dr. Barbara

    53 min

  7. MAR 6

    Flashback Friday | How God Covers Us When We Cannot Cover Ourselves with Drs. Bob & Audrey Meisner Ep80

    What if exhaustion, betrayal, and failure aren't signs your story is over, but invitations to return to forgiveness and Christ dependence? In this powerful Flashback Friday episode, Dr. Barbara Jean Lowe Sauvé revisits a deeply moving conversation with Drs. Bob and Audrey Meisner, sharing a redemptive Christian marriage restoration story marked by spiritual thirst, betrayal, confession, and God's mercy. Together, they explore what truly creates healing after rupture, not self-effort or spiritual bypassing, but forgiveness and Christ dependence, truth-telling, and God's covering. This episode reframes healing after infidelity from a Christian perspective, showing how grace and mercy meet shame, exhaustion, and control. You'll learn about the barrenness of busyness, spiritual dryness and exhaustion, how small compromises lead to life-altering decisions, why confession opens the door to restoration after betrayal, and how identity in Christ is not defined by your worst moment. The Meisners share how a desperate cry, "Holy Spirit, I don't know what to do", became a turning point toward redemption, covering, and renewed family systems. Whether you're seeking restoration after betrayal, wrestling with shame, or longing for renewal in your faith and family, this episode offers hope, biblical truth, and a powerful testimony of God's grace and mercy.

    54 min

  8. MAR 5

    From Codependence to Christ Dependence | Part 17: When Resentment Gives Access Ep79

    Why does resentment quietly become spiritual territory while forgiveness restores freedom and peace? In this WHOLE Life Podcast episode, Dr. Barbara Jean Lowe Sauvé explores how resentment gives access, creating topos, spiritual territory that shapes attention, memory, physiology, and discernment. She unpacks why unforgiveness is not spiritually neutral, how it opens doors in spiritual warfare, and how confession and forgiveness collapse the enemy's jurisdiction. Drawing from Scripture (including Ephesians 4:26–27), trauma and attachment science, and vivid metaphors like medieval city gates and Trojan horses, this teaching reveals how resentment forms through minimization and rehearsal, why unlamented grief becomes bitterness, and how to forgive someone who hurt you without spiritual bypassing or losing boundaries. The episode concludes with a guided forgiveness exercise, a prayer encounter with Jesus, and a powerful moment of cleansing and deliverance from resentment,inviting you into Christ dependence, freedom, and peace. You are loved. You are not alone.    RESOURCES & NEXT STEPS Self-Parenting Guide:  drbarbaraministries.org/self-parent Pastoral Coaching (Christian worldview):  drbarbaraministries.org → Coaching

    51 min
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Move from weary, wounded, and disillusioned to living out the life you dream. Licensed Psychologist and Life Coach Dr. Barbara Lowe and her guests discuss how to move from stuck and painful places to flowing in your superpowers and passions. Listen to The Heart Journey Podcast with Dr. Barbara each week and be empowered to Really Live a Whole Life!

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