The Journey Toward Wholeness: Enneagram Wisdom for Stress, Balance, and Transformation
Ebook
Overview
Going Deeper with Suzanne Stabile and the Enneagram
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. In The Journey Toward Wholeness, Suzanne
- Draws on the dynamic stability of the Enneagram to explain each number’s preferred and repressed Center of Intelligence,
- Illuminates each Center of Intelligence’s role in helping us move toward internal balance, and
- Provides brief, focused chapters that contain what we need to deal with the constant change and complexity of our world in order to achieve lasting transformation in our lives.
Introduction: Toward a Balanced Life
Part One: Triads: Naming and Managing Your Dominant Center of Intelligence
Overview: How We Are Broken . . . and How We Can Be Healed
Chapter One: What Do I Feel? The Heart Triad’s Responses to Stress
2s: I Can Say No
3s: I Can Allow Feelings
4s: My Feelings . . . and Yours
Chapter Two: What Do I Think? The Head Triad’s Responses to Stress
5s: Finding Comfort in the World
6s: Trusting My Experience and Myself
7s: I Can Choose to Be Satisfied
Chapter Three: What Needs to Be Done? The Gut Triad’s Responses to Stress
8s: I Can Slow Down
9s: Decide More, Merge Less
1s: Two Things Can Be True
Part Two: Stances: Naming and Managing Your Repressed Center of Intelligence
Overview: The Soul Work of the Repressed Center
Chapter Four: The Withdrawing Stance: Moving Away from Others
4s: Choose the Ordinary
5s: Be Present to the World
9s: Make a Choice—You Can Change Your Mind
Chapter Five: The Aggressive Stance: Standing Independently
3s: I Am More Than What I Do
7s: All Feelings Matter
8s: Vulnerability Is Not Weakness
Chapter Six: The Dependent Stance: Moving Toward Others
1s: "And It Was Good"
2s: What Do I Need?
6s: All Shall Be Well
Conclusion: What Are You Willing to Give Up for Transformation?
Acknowledgments
Notes
"Long before the Enneagram was a buzzword at parties, church staff retreats, and neighborhood gathering spots, Suzanne Stabile was studying the Enneagram and sharing her insights with others. In The Journey Toward Wholeness, perhaps her most ambitious project to date, she wove her love of a good story with her passion for the Enneagram and produced a work that students and practitioners alike will find both readable and challenging. The Journey Toward Wholeness moves beyond the traditional topics that fascinate Enneagram enthusiasts—relationships and endless descriptions of our various and predictable personality traits—to explore some of the weightier dynamics of this tool, offering both a hope and a challenge: Are we willing to abandon our habitual ways of showing up in the world to become more fully human as a gift to the world?"
"During a time when the popularity of the Enneagram is unprecedented and sound bites are plentiful, the depth of this ancient wisdom is often overlooked. Suzanne Stabile, using her uncommon understanding of the Enneagram, coupled with her gift of synchronicity and a deep appreciation for storytelling, offers The Journey Toward Wholeness. It will be a treasured companion for those who seek the kind of spiritual transformation that will add both peace and goodness to their own lives and to the world around them."
"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."
"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."
- Title: The Journey Toward Wholeness: Enneagram Wisdom for Stress, Balance, and Transformation
- Author: Suzanne Stabile
- Publisher: IVP Formatio
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Pages: 252
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781514001172, 9781514001165, 1514001160, 1514001179
- Resource ID: LLS:9781514001172
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-05-07T01:45:01Z
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.