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Highlights
- Most books exploring the Enneagram are focused on understanding oneself.
- About the Author: Christa Hardin (MA, Wheaton College) has counseled and coached couples all over the globe for two decades.
- 288 Pages
- Religion + Beliefs, Christian Life
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About the Book
A clinical therapist unlocks how the Enneagram illuminates not just who we are, but who we are in our most intimate relationship--marriage--through comprehensive profiles of the 45 possible pairings across all types, plus tools to ensure every pairing can thrive.Book Synopsis
Most books exploring the Enneagram are focused on understanding oneself. But how does the Enneagram lend insight to our relationships? Specifically, your relationship with your spouse and the unique pairing you share?In this incredibly practical and easy-to-understand book, counselor and psychologist Christa Hardin combines her expertise in psychological assessment and marriage and family counseling to explore all 45 possible Enneagram pairings in relationships. She calls it the Enneagram Glow--the unique, mutual influence of two types in intimate relationship across the seasons and shifts that every couple experiences. She helps you learn to
- understand your partner's emotions and reactions
- extend more grace to your partner and yourself
- have productive conversations that foster connection
- build a legacy together with intention
You've never read a relationship book or an Enneagram book like this before! Discover how you and your partner can build on your shared gifts, overcome the shadows, and shine a bright and beautiful light on each other and everyone you encounter.
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Your most intimate relationship--illuminatedMost books exploring the Enneagram are focused on understanding me. But how does the Enneagram lend insight to us? Specifically, your relationship with your partner and the unique pairing you share?
In this incredibly practical and easy-to-understand book, Christa Hardin combines her expertise in psychological assessment and marriage and family counseling to explore all possible Enneagram pairings in relationships. She calls this one-of-a-kind pairing the Enneagram Glow--the unique, mutual influence of two types in intimate relationship across the seasons and shifts that every couple experiences. She helps you learn to
- understand your partner's emotions and reactions
- extend more grace to your partner and yourself
- have productive conversations that foster connection
- build a legacy together with intention
You've never read a relationship book or an Enneagram book like this before! Discover how you and your partner can build on your shared gifts, overcome the shadows, and shine a bright and beautiful light on each other and everyone you encounter.
About the Author
Christa Hardin (MA, Wheaton College) has counseled and coached couples all over the globe for two decades. Founder of Reflections Counseling Center, LLC, Christa hosts the popular Enneagram + Marriage podcast, which has over 1 million downloads and has helped thousands of couples find refreshment, joy, balance, and connection together. Christa uses the Enneagram and other research-based marriage tools to give couples deeper insight into their strengths and shadows and to help them determine how they can shine brightest in the world together. She lives with her husband and children in Florida.Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 5.91 Inches (W) x .87 Inches (D)
Weight: .65 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 288
Genre: Religion + Beliefs
Sub-Genre: Christian Life
Publisher: Baker Books
Theme: Love & Marriage
Format: Paperback
Author: Christa Hardin
Language: English
Street Date: October 3, 2023
TCIN: 88884034
UPC: 9781540903372
Item Number (DPCI): 247-53-4446
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Momofsunnybrook - 2 years ago
I love romance and my favorite thing is when a book can help me to capture this again in my relationship of over a decade. I'm so glad I picked this book up because it's helping me to see the love we share in the most gorgeous hues. it's also helping me to find a path out of our shadows together, which we sometimes hit in our parenting of littles and this busy moment in life.
Helping couples grow and glow together!
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bhe - 2 years ago
Whether you have never heard of the enneagram or are a longtime student, this humble, hopeful, practical, informative book invites couples to recognize their unique light and shadows as individuals and as a couple, to grow in these areas together, and to shine brightly together in ways that radiate healing and flourishing on an individual level, couple level, familial level, community level and out into the world. With research, clarity and accessibility, Christa effectively describes the enneagram system and how it can help individuals and couples better understand themselves and their relational dynamics with compassion that leads to empathy and growth. With integrity and vulnerability, Christa leads by example, showing the reader ways that light and shadow have played out in her own life and relationship through the beauty and challenges of her own unique enneagram type and pairing in marriage. She implicitly and explicitly offers hope that there is beauty and a growth path for ALL types and pairings. Author Resmaa Menakem, describes committed romantic relationships as an invitation to grow up together. Christa’s book lays out a helpful roadmap and practical tools to do just that with intentionality. As a person, as a partner, and as a couple’s therapist, I’m so grateful for this new growth tool.
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Momof3 - 2 years ago
Christa provides an illustrative understanding of how the Enneagram plays out in real life with real people. It is presented as a collection of vivid stories but as useful (or perhaps more so) than any Enneagram primer I've come across, combining so much wisdom of couples counseling with the Enneagram. Reading this book, I felt love emanating from the pages, an openness and understanding towards one another, and proactive love instead of reactive and defensive. There was emphasis on loving one another and less focus on self. Practicality, captivating storytelling, and wisdom from years of lived experience as a couple’s counselor culminated into an incredibly helpful work of art in the Enneagram community. For having virtually no marriage therapy experience and communication issues of my own, by the end of the book I truly felt like I had enough information to attempt working through a hurt with my spouse and the tools to help support them when navigating life's low times by using the models and structures for moving through the work and calls to actions in each chapter to get the conversation going. The book also helped me to assign words to feelings so I could in turn help my spouse understand me better also. Christa's heart for God also flowed through the pages and touched my soul. The book discusses hurts and wounds but also beautifully weaves in hope in the form of God's promises to us and ways he is there to give support to us also. She uses the Enneagram to allow for deeper understanding and cultivation of empathy for one another, as an aid to help the spouse feel understood and heard, a safe ground to open up to intimate dialogue with each other. This book helped me to fall more in love with my spouse by pointing out their gifts and humanizing both of us, offering grace and love from God so we can in turn offer that to each other and ourselves, fully showing up to life. Chapter 8 was incredibly special to me and so lovingly written. It was encouraging but realistic, reminding us of the big picture of marriage and of life. Life is indeed both hard AND beautiful, long, AND short, bitter, AND sweet. Something to be cherished most definitely.
Empowering
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Avid fan - 2 years ago
Learn about yourself and your spouse/partner in a way that will help you grow in your marriage.