Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
Audiobook9 hours

Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

4.5/5

()

About this audiobook

Ignorance is bliss?except in self-awareness. What you don't know about yourself can hurt you and your relationships?and maybe even how you make your way in the world. It can also keep you in the shallows with God. Do you want help figuring out who you are and why you're stuck in the same ruts? The Enneagram is an ancient personality type system with an uncanny accuracy in describing how human beings are wired, both positively and negatively. In The Road Back to You Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile forge a unique approach?a practical, comprehensive way of accessing Enneagram wisdom and exploring its connections with Christian spirituality for a deeper knowledge of God and of ourselves. Funny and filled with stories, this book allows you to understand more about each of the Enneagram types, keeping you turning the pages long after you have read the chapter about yourself. Beginning with changes you can start making today, the wisdom of the Enneagram can help you get on the road that will take you further along into who you really are?leading you into places of spiritual discovery you would never have found on your own, and paving the way to the wiser, more compassionate person you want to become.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 4, 2016
ISBN9781633899858
Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
Author

Ian Morgan Cron

Ian Morgan Cron is a bestselling author, psychotherapist, Enneagram teacher, Episcopal priest, and the host of the popular podcast Typology. His books include the Enneagram primer The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery, which has sold over one million copies; the novel Chasing Francis; the spiritual memoir Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me; and The Story of You: An Enneagram Journey to Becoming Your True Self.

More audiobooks from Ian Morgan Cron

Related to Road Back to You

Related audiobooks

Personal Growth For You

View More

Related articles

Reviews for Road Back to You

Rating: 4.601995587361419 out of 5 stars
4.5/5

451 ratings24 reviews

What did you think?

Tap to rate

Review must be at least 10 words

  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Loved discovering not only my own type, but also my family’s. It provided some great conversation. Really enjoyed Ian’s casual delivery as well. Like meeting with a friend over coffee.

    1 person found this helpful

  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book was well read and super enlightening! Thank you!

    1 person found this helpful

  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Great introduction to the enneagram! Well worth the time.

    1 person found this helpful

  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is Great book and overview to the enneagram!! Thank you!

    1 person found this helpful

  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Excellent book - informative, well laid out and entertaining! Great read!

    1 person found this helpful

  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    absolutely awesome. one of the best Christian and Enneagram books I've ever read. deep knowledge and light language.

    1 person found this helpful

  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The book provides insight of the Enneagram, the nine personality types in the Enneagram, how the personality types interact and why personalities behave the way they do.

    An easy to read book and would recommend for anyone planning to take the Enneagram Test.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Excellent primer on The Enneagram! I really enjoyed the author Ian Kron’s reading of the book!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Well written and read, very thought provoking and makes conversations with family and friends interesting afterward.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is a great intro to the enneagram. This was recommended to me by some friends who knew about the enneagram. I knew nothing going into it, and enjoyed the succinct explanations of the types, wings, characteristics in stress & security, and other basic enneagram info. It's a great crash course into this system. If you want to learn the very basics of the enneagram, I recommend this book.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Beautiful explanation! Examples narrated make the learning so personal and relatable!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Great book! The enneagram world is super new to me. I loved the language used by Ian, such a fun book to read. Very informative. Loved it!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Great book. I was biased. Had a negative approach prior to reading. I was wrong. Very good book. Very well explained. Interesting how all the personalities can help up take a certain approach towards real life situations. Of course, the ultimate goal is to come back to God through Jesus.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    It was so great to read and understand how each personality is motivated.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Was recommended to me by Becca Murray on tiktok- I definitely didn't think it would be this Christan centered but I took what I could from this book
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Deep, kind and entertaining. This book is a gift to the world.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is a pithy, but highly informative read about what motivates us. It gets at our dearest and darkest desires and how we can be our best selves, particularly if we are people of faith. When reading my section, I felt a shot of pain, but also great enlightenment. I will return to this again.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I both enjoyed reading this and got a lot out of it. So far it’s done the best job of breaking down each type of the Enneagram for me to understand them. They’re explained in more real world ways (types as children and at work...), and I appreciated the steps to transformation for each type.Finally, I realized that I’m very judgmental when it comes to Christian publishers, and I need to get over that. This was a lovely non-preachy book without the “Jesus stuff” I apparently expected, and I just need to read books without having a bias except whether I enjoy the read or don’t.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    If you’re at all interested in enneagram, I highly recommend this book. I basically just highlighted the entire chapter of my number.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Coupled with The Course of Love, these two books have come along at a crucial time in my life and given me great insight into myself, allowing for the self-discovery I've been searching for.

    If you're interested in engaging with and learning about your core self in a tangible way, give this a read. It's a great introduction to the Enneagram, how it operates and how you (and others) experience the world.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    My wife came home from church one day and said, “I want to take that Sunday School class on the Enneagram.” I’d heard of it, but I knew nothing about it. Over the next few weeks, she kept calling people numbers. “You’re a five.” or “I’m a six.” Intrigued, I decided to read this book to learn more about it.

    I was – and still am – very cynical that human personality can be broken down accurately into nine parts. Even though the enneagram has ancient roots in Christian spirituality, the system seems somewhat contrived and arbitrary. Why must things combine in a set way? Why can’t they be some other way?

    At its best, this book offers a language to communicate about concepts that make people’s personalities tick. At its best, the enneagram provides a lens through which to understand the people in our lives with compassion. At its worst, it’s just another reductionistic self-help program.

    These concepts are all-the-rage in mainline Christian churches today. Some people treat all of this as incontrovertible gospel. In some ways, it’s the new Myers-Briggs psychology test, which was the new Jungian archetypes. It’s helpful to be exposed to, at the very least in order to learn the language. But there is more to life than personality as there is more to psychology than the almighty self. This book needs to teach us about others, not self-absorption, about love-of-neighbor instead of mere narcissism.

    Therefore, I think this book is misnomered. The goal is not self-discovery. The goal is discovery of how to understand those closest to us. I know I thought of co-workers and family members as I read. I thought of how I could have handled situations and people better than I did. Yes, it taught me about myself, but that wasn’t the point. It taught me about them and how I can relate to their lives better. It didn’t teach me how I can be me better. It taught me how handle me so that I can love them better.

  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A friend recommended this book as being filled with a great insight about life. It is a framework for understanding how people develop their personalities. It is also a means of better understanding yourself. For me the challenge is to grasp the presented spectrum of personalities well enough to know how to clarify yourself and your loved ones. The expectation is that knowing yourself better opens the door to a fuller and more satisfying life. I finished the book realizing that at best it is just an introduction. I will need to know more before I can begin to be confident about categorizing people. And in the end even if you don't fully accept the schema for categorizing people you have enriched you insight into the working of your mind and the mind of others.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This is a helpful and honest introduction to the Enneagram—it's written from a Christian perspective. I felt empowered in reading this and appreciated the unbiased insight as well as the theme of compassion and mutual understanding.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Prior to reading this book, I knew little about the Enneagram system. I'm fascinated by the ways in which we can be typed into different personality groups, so I was happy to delve into this ancient system. The Enneagram is similar to the Myers-Briggs system, with more emphasis on behavioral patterns over thinking patterns. This book is marketed as "Christian", but a specific religious leaning is not necessary in order to read, enjoy, and learn from the material. While the authors do occasionally talk about their relationship to God, the connection emphasizes spiritual connections more than a specific religion or belief system. The writing style is conversational and flows well. The authors interject personal anecdotes throughout, giving the intimate feel of a friendly discussion rather than a dry textbook lesson.I particularly like that the authors don't use The Enneagram to simply label us with a personality type number and a list of traits, but, more importantly, they teach us how to identify our negative behaviors and offer ways to work on correcting them. The authors stress that our personality types don't cast us in concrete. When we're self-aware, we're able to challenge ourselves to grow and become the best version of ourselves. *I was provided with an ebook copy by the publisher, via NetGalley, in exchange for my honest review.*