The Journey Toward Wholeness – Enneagram Wisdom for Stress, Balance, and Transformation

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For novices of the enneagram (and many instagram influencers) the enneagram can appear to be a randomly assembled grouping of behaviors or character traits.

We do not like it when our world spins out of control, and our self-constructed comfort zone is disturbed. The stances are the Withdrawing Stance (represses doing), including those who are 4s, 5s, and 9s, the Aggressive Stance (represses feeling), including those who are 3s, 7s, and 8s, and the Dependent Stance (represses thinking), including the 1s, 2s, and 6s.Suzanna Stabile explores the nine core Enneagram types, each characterized by distinct patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. What was uniquely helpful in this book was to understand my default responses to stress and to discover that I have options and am not stuck with the default.

We must be vulnerable and find ways in which we can set aside the armor, and open our arms to the reconciliation and wholeness that only openness and lovingkindness can achieve.I am excited to get my hard copy of the book soon so that I can make notes in it and highlight much of it! The book is a wealth of information about each Enneagram number and where the number goes in stress and security (which is an excellent reason to be familiar with ALL the numbers in the Enneagram from the two previous books). Her new book takes a fresh approach to the Enneagram, focusing less on the Nine individual types and viewing it instead through the lens of Triads and Stances. It's super interesting and I found myself nodding along when Suzanne was talking about my personal number.

The book encourages readers to reflect on their childhood narratives and to uncover the patterns and wounds that have influenced their Enneagram types, fostering greater self-understanding and compassion.

Suzanne does a terrific job of capturing and communicating the distinctive thinking, feeling and doing patterns of each type. This tradition, steeped in the falsehood of the gender binary, immediately limits the possibilities for this new life.

Plus - and this is what I love about the Enneagram - the other chapters helped me understand the people in my life better, too.Stabile explores each of the nine Enneagram types in detail, providing insights into their core fears, desires, and patterns of behavior. While the dominant and support center stacking seem to be important to other types, 3, 6, and 9 are offered less specificity. For each type in the Triad, our response to stress will reflect our dominant intelligence–feeling, doing, thinking. I recognized at a young age that when I expressed myself in ways that were seen as ‘different’ it wasn’t received well.