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

Suzanne Stabile

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Book cover for The Journey Toward Wholeness: Enneagram Wisdom for Stress, Balance, and Transformation

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

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

Suzanne Stabile

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Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist

In everything from health care and politics to technology and economics, we are experiencing feelings of loss, anger, and anxiety. In the Enneagram's wisdom, our number determines how we respond. We automatically move to another number when we're feeling stress and to yet another when we're feeling secure. Such moves may help us feel better temporarily but don't last.

For those who want to dive deeper into Enneagram wisdom, expert teacher Suzanne Stabile opens the concept of three Centers of Intelligence: thinking, feeling, and doing. When we learn to manage these centers, each for its intended purpose, we open a path to reducing fear, improving relationships, growing spiritually, and finding wholeness. Drawing on the dynamic stability of the Enneagram, she explains each number's preferred and repressed Center of Intelligence and its role in helping us move toward internal balance. Using brief focused chapters, this book provides what we need to deal with the constant change and complexity of our world to achieve lasting transformation in our lives.

About the Author

Suzanne Stabile is a highly sought-after speaker, teacher, and internationally recognized Enneagram master teacher who has taught thousands of people over the last thirty years. She is the author of The Path Between Us, and coauthor, with Ian Morgan Cron, of The Road Back to You. She is also the creator and host of The Enneagram Journey podcast. Along with her husband, Rev. Joseph Stabile, she is cofounder of Life in the Trinity Ministry, a nonprofit, nondenominational ministry committed to the spiritual growth and formation of adults. Their ministry home, the Micah Center, is located in Dallas, Texas.

Critical Reviews

"There are true voices of wisdom in the Enneagram field, arising from people who have really done their homework, and Suzanne Stabile is such a person. In The Journey Toward Wholeness she places the Enneagram in its correct context--that of healing, of transformation, and of integrating the different aspects of our psyches. Suzanne brings tremendous experience in working with this material and in seeing what aspects of it truly help others. This wonderful book offers clear and accessible insight into the inner workings of our souls. It gives kind and steady guidance on how we can more consciously cooperate with grace and create more balanced, compassionate, and authentically spiritual lives. I suspect this book will be treasured by Enneagram students for many years to come."--Russ Hudson, author of The Enneagram: Nine Gateways to Presence and coauthor of The Wisdom of the Enneagram

"The Journey Toward Wholeness is timely and wise. In these pages, you'll find language that will guide you through the lifelong process of becoming who you were made to be. You'll find hope and next steps so you can keep traveling these liminal times at a graceful pace. This book caused me to feel seen and understood, and also challenged me to go deeper, right here where I am. Suzanne Stabile really spoke to me with this book, and I will be returning to it often."--Morgan Harper Nichols, author of All Along You Were Blooming and Forty Days on Being a Five

"The Journey Toward Wholeness moves us beyond our common overidentification with Enneagram type by leading us into a greater understanding of who we have the innate capacity to become as a whole and integrated person. Through expanded Enneagram teaching, poignant stories, challenging questions, and relevant best practices, Suzanne Stabile expertly guides us in the truth that life can be wildly complex, but that does not mean it needs to be complicated."--Jerome D. Lubbe, author of The Brain-Based Enneagram: You Are Not a Number

"Stabile explores how one can recognize and use one's enneagram type to forge a more secure, healthier future. . . . This will be most appreciated by those already all-in with the Enneagram."--Publishers Weekly Review, August 2021

"Living on automatic is one of the easiest things to do in life. If we are to become more intentional and conscious, kindness and honesty are two of the most important qualities we need for the journey of our soul. Longtime and highly respected Enneagram teacher Suzanne Stabile infuses her accessible writings with these qualities as she weaves her wisdom through stories and practices that will meet you on your journey. I highly recommend The Journey Toward Wholeness for readers seeking a guide of rare depth."--Roxanne Howe-Murphy, author of Deep Living with the Enneagram: Recovering Your True Nature

Publishing Information

Publisher: IVP Formatio
Pub date: 2021-11-02
Length: 256 pages

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