She offers practical guidance for navigating relationships, fostering empathy, and fostering healthy connections based on an understanding of each other’s Enneagram types. This journey towards accessing wholeness starts by recognizing that we already have all the pieces within us—nothing is missing. The struggle isn't the same for each of us, but we can journey toward spiritual and emotional growth together.

Becoming aware of all the ways we are taught to separate gives us new information as we navigate putting the pieces back together. A harmony of warming, active, focused energy and cooling, receptive, nurturing energy; a harmony of masculine and feminine energy at play. This book is written with the assumption that readers already have a base knowledge of the enneagram, and that they probably know their enneagram number.Thank you to NetGalley and InterVarsity Press for the complimentary advanced copy of this book in exchange for my unbiased review. There are two ways to respond to that reality—either by “perfecting” our ability to armor ourselves or by doing the very hard work of creating, nurturing, and growing spaces into which we can step with all our vulnerability and set aside our armor. Many Christians identify Naaman’s story with his miraculous healing in the Jordan River but fail to see the greater truth of God’s love for the Gentiles and the breadth of the gospel’s reach. In conclusion, “The Journey Towards Wholeness” by Suzanna Stabile is a transformative guide to the Enneagram system and the path towards self-awareness and personal growth.

Suzanne uses theory and a wealth of practical examples to explain the distinctions in how each type uses thinking, feeling, and doing to take in and process information. When we take this position, we find ourselves at a place of great separation from our sacred siblings and work in opposition to reconciliation.Triads are determined by the dominant center of intelligence; types 2, 3, and 4 have a dominant feeling center and are members of the Heart Triad; types 5, 6, and 7 have a dominant thinking center and are members of the Head Triad; and types 8, 9, and 1 have a dominant doing center and are members of the Gut Triad. We experience new thoughts by the minute, new emotions daily, and even emotions that we are familiar with will be processed in different ways as time goes on. 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.

As Margo heals and grows, she’ll come to understand that her wholeness doesn't depend on anyone else. We pick apart each emotion we feel, each quality of our being to find a reason, a root, or an explanation. We do not like it when our world spins out of control, and our self-constructed comfort zone is disturbed. The vision of this volume is that all will learn to travel together as a healed and healing community. For me, this an intermediate level Enneagram resource - best for folks who know their numbers and have started digging into what that means.The author really is an authority and the book is very carefully written for this special group of folks.