The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery By Ian Morgan Cron
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The call is to become aware of how we go through life and what mistakes we continue to make so that we can get out of your own way and become of the person God created you to be p 17 Figuring out my type has allowed me to have so much compassion and understanding for myself and others That s why I continue to encourage people to learn about the Enneagram I can t help but imagine a world where we all had this level of compassion and understanding. The road back to you book series order Disclosure I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review 238 This is an excellent reference book for the different Enneagram types Very well done and a book to keep on my bookshelf 238 I kept hearing about the Enneagram.
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That s when I decided to go diggingMany of my very favorite podcasts mention the Enneagram and I got curious This book was a wonderful introduction There are 9 categories that you can fall into with wings and shades of others What does this all mean Cron spends time explaining what a healthy number looks like vs someone struggling with their related deadly sin I kept trying to think of this as it relates to my closest friends and family members Changing and adapting my thought process when dealing with conflict and added some new life mantras to help me move forward and own my truest self I would highly recommend checking this one out if you have any interest in personality and bettering yourself Slight tinges on religious undertones.
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And God s omnipotence to name a few This is not the Gospel. The road back to you book series order He also offers skewed read unbiblical advice for how overly emotional types should deal with their emotions The fact that this man was once a pastor makes me very concerned He did mention that we can t be complacent and each type must fight against our sin tendencies I will give him a small nod for this I will also give him props for sharing that this book is to used as a tool for compassion toward others This is commendable I also don t find the meat of his explanations on the enneagram to be revolutionary or different than what a quick search on the Internet could provide He does not offer new or interesting thoughts to the dialog He fills his books with anecdotal tidbits from his personal life and the lives of those around him This book felt like a long personal ramble with surface enneagram talk and some jokes and inspirational quotes thrown in. Book the road back to you summary I would bypass The Road Back To You in your reading journey This book is not worth your time 238 This was an informative read for those that have an interest in the enneagram.
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Ignorance is bliss except in self awarenessWhat you don t know about yourself can hurt you and your relationships and even 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 typing 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 ourselves compassion for others and love for God Witty and filled with stories this book allows you to peek inside each of the nine Enneagram types keeping you turning the pages long after you have read the chapter about your own number Not only will you learn about yourself but you will also start to see the world through other people s eyes understanding how and why people think feel and act the way they do Beginning with changes you can start making today the wisdom of the Enneagram can help 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 compassionate person you want to become The Road Back to You An Enneagram Journey to Self Discovery
Ian Morgan Cron is a bestselling author nationally recognized speaker Enneagram teacher trained psychotherapist Dove Award winning songwriter and Episcopal priest His books include the novel Chasing Francis and spiritual memoir Jesus My Father the CIA and Me Ian draws on an array of disciplines from psychology to the arts Christian spirituality and theology to help people enter deeply into conversation with God and the mystery of their own lives He and his wife Anne live in Nashville Tennessee. The road back to you pdf The names Suzanne Stabile and Ian Morgan Cron may or may not mean something to you When I heard they were writing a book about the Enneagram I paid attention Stabile is a well known Enneagram teacher I ve never been able to attend one of her workshops but I ve followed her online for a while Cron is probably better known as an author and Episcopal priest although he s done some speaking on the Enneagram in recent years The combination of Stabile and Cron her extensive knowledge plus his gift for the narrative results in an easy to read and understandable resource that will surely help many people identify and better understand their type. Fiction the road back to you summary The Road Back To You provides an introduction to the Enneagram my favorite personality type system and why it s beneficial to figure out your type They then devote a chapter to each type As I read it struck me how truly readable the book was I ll forever sing the praises of Riso and Hudson s The Wisdom of the Enneagram but it has a academic almost clinical tone and the amount of information could be overwhelming as a starting point although a fantastic resource through and through This in contrast is a great place for people to start. The road back to you study guide pdf Cron includes many examples from his and Suzanne s lives including their friends and family and this roots the type descriptions better than other Enneagram resources His writing style is engaging though his attempts at humor didn t always work including one specific line in the Type 5 chapter that is ill advised Overall Cron is able to depict the types in a way that is personable gracious and incising People should see themselves reflected on the pages This is written from a Christian perspective but it s not so heavy handed that non Christians couldn t still find value in reading it It worked for me at least But if you prefer to avoid religious content altogether I d direct you to The Enneagram Made Easy which is a short accessible overview. The road back to you free pdf I have two minor complaints First Cron references his children s Enneagram types and the examples provided are generally when they are not adults I m in the camp that believes our personalities continue to form into our 20s so I m very wary of typing children and teenagers They may have the tendencies of a certain type but I don t want to put anyone that young in a box The Enneagram of Parenting does a great job of laying out the fine lines while also providing guidance Cron is probably in this camp too but I don t want people to read about his children and then start typing their own children So there s that Second each type chapter includes celebrity examples when we have no idea what their type is It s unfair to caution people against typing labeling others then proceed to do the same thing In most instances the celebrities are listed in a bubble at the start of the chapter but there are some actual examples in chapters such as Bill Clinton being a Nine For the record that would not have been my guess which brings me back to my original point We can have a guess for what a person s type might be but they re the only one who knows their internal motivations the very thing the Enneagram is built upon Moving onI ve lost count of how many descriptions I ve read of my type 4 so I was not expecting to be so completely and fully pegged when I read these lines As you might guess Fours are prone to melancholy Like the Old Testament figure Job they can steep in lament After all it s hard to be chipper when the now dated U2 song Still Haven t Found What I m Looking For or the Radiohead song Creep play like the soundtrack in the movie of your life p 156 How did Cron know what songs I turn to on sad days I could not stop laughing I also really liked this part Fours are the most complex of all the types on the Enneagram what you see is never what you get There are always layers of things going on underneath the surface p 158 Finally I liked the emphasis on how learning about our type is both a benefit for ourselves and for our relationships as well as our worldview Throughout the book took a quiz and got multiple answers but not heavy handed PS I m a 3 Achiever with the energy sin of a 9 Which one are you 238 If you are new to and curious about the Enneagram I think this book is a fantastic way to start digging into it Cron wonderfully explains each type giving context to them in many ways work childhood relationships as well as details the various elements of the Enneagram wings stress security It was insightful accessible and entertaining and has truly opened my eyes to how I see the world in a particular way as well as how other people very unlike me see the world and that gives me the ability to reframe my relationships with other people so I am slower to judge quicker to listen and overall gracious. The road back to you pdf On the other hand if you have absolutely no idea what the Enneagram is you can take this free test granted you can also just read about the 9 types and figure out which one you are but I think the test is a helpful starting place I d encourage you to do some research and read up on your type because it s truly changed my life and interactions in such a positive way enneagramforlife 238 This book was assigned reading at my job I believe the intention was for our small team about 10 to understand that each of us is different and if we can understand each other s perspective we can improve our communication compassion expectations and overall teamwork According to the author The purpose of the Enneagram is to show us how we can release the paralyzing arthritic grip we ve kept on old self defeating ways of living so we can open ourselves to experiencing interior freedom and become our best selves pg 36 I would have been much receptive to this theory of personality if people didn t insist on trying to Christianize it or I should say spiritualize it because there s really no Christian theology in it Other personality tests like the Myers Briggs or even the whole love language concept can be helpful insofar as they help people understand that not everyone sees the world the way they do I think it would be hard for anyone to ignore that we are different and that those differences cause conflicts Our understanding of those differences though and how we go about working through them is of the utmost importance And that s why I can t recommend this book and would be throwing it away if I didn t have to hang onto it for reference at work I m not sure the authors pretend to be Christian specifically although Cron was is an Episcopal priest but this book and this concept is being promoted in Christian churches and I could see why people would read this book and think Oh this whole idea is Christian Cool But from what I remember though the author references God and the Bible I found no evidence of the tenets of Christianity only some vague spiritual language that skirts the Gospel courts Eastern religion and in general confuses all kinds of religious thought For example the author writes toward the beginning that the true purpose of the Enneagram is to reveal to you your shadow side and offer spiritual counsel on how to open it to the transformative light of grace pg 31 Pretty generic Yet supposedly each of the Types is associated with one of the Seven Deadly Sins from the Bible each personality s deadly sin is like addictive involuntary repeated behavior that we can only be free of when we recognize how often we give it the keys to drive our personality pg 31 The author doesn t seem to know how to choose between an amorphous spiritual theory that is truly incompatible with Biblical teaching and some sort of compulsion to make his view of the Bible fit with the Enneagram The results is a failure on multiple fronts I ll try to summarize a few of my biggest complaints with the book below. Back on the road to you freedy johnston First Christians should be suspicious of any book that claims to deepen your connection with God but without reference to God s word I kept track of the number of times that the authors referenced the Bible and I believe it was under fivein over 200 pages And the references that were included were mostly in a section that had to do with the author s own spiritual journey They weren t necessarily instructive which is good because after reading this book I wouldn t trust this author to do any instructing from the Bible You might think So what Well for a book on a topic that apparently claims to be known among clergy spiritual directors retreat leaders and laypeople as a helpful aid in Christian spiritual formation pg 11 I find it odd that the Bible the foundation of Christian belief and practice is almost completely absent Where he does talk about the Bible he gives the impression that it s a secondary aid from which to pick and choose to support the life changing supposedly centuries old theory of the Enneagram At one point he reluctantly introduces the story about Martha and Mary from Luke 10 calling it hackneyed Those pesky overused Bible passages Who would have thought that in a book written from a Christian perspective by a dude that is an Episcopal priest you would find an apology for introducing scripture Worse than the lack of Bible references is the redefinition of orthodox terms like sin and sanctification Early on the author writes Bearing sensitivities in mind allow me to offer a definition of sin I have found helpful and one we might use together in our conversation Richard Rohr writes Sins are fixations that prevent the energy of life God s love from flowing freely They are self erected blockades that cut us off from God and hence from our own authentic potential pg 30 Setting aside how nonsensical this definition is anyone who has spent time with the Bible should feel deeply uncomfortable with its total lack of scriptural integrity Sin isn t what gets in the way of us finding our authentic selves it s what we as rebellious people willingly commit against a holy perfect God that puts us at odds with him and cause us to desperately need a Savior Both the act and the outcome are woefully misunderstood which isn t surprising consider the slew of other heresies that Richard Rohr holds to Speaking of Richard Rohr the author holds him in very high regard writing If it weren t for spiritual teachers like Richard Rohr we wouldn t have as clear a picture of the loving heart of God pg 99 Cron is kind of fanboy ish about Rohr throughout the book and it speaks volumes about where Cron stands theologically Regarding sanctification and salvation the author quotes Thomas Merton a mystic who studied Eastern religion in the conclusion of the book For me to be a saint means to be myself Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self pg 230 I m not sure if my mouth dropped when I read this on the final page of this book but I certainly was aghast at the proposal that salvation itself is the process of becoming of me Never mind that the apostle Paul said He Christ must increase but I must decrease John 3 30 or that God called Christians to be conformed to the image of His Son Romans 8 29 Merton s and the author s sentiment is so far from the Biblical emphasis and explicit teaching on salvation and sanctification that he really can t be trusted to handle any spiritual topic with any skill or honestly Second the whole idea of the Enneagram at least according to this book is that spiritual development and really self fulfillment and satisfaction in life all come back to the idea of knowing yourself Without self knowledge we are asleep pg 14 The author quotes Brother Dave as saying Working with the Enneagram helps people develop the kind of self knowledge they need to understand who they are and why they see and relate to the world the way they do When that happens you can start to get out of your own way and become of the person God created you to be pg 15 The author goes on to quote from a variety of theologians mystics about self knowledge Irritatingly he quotes from people like Calvin and Augustine who would be rolling over in their graves if they knew their words were being used to promote this piffle Calvin is quoted as saying Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God pg 15 I ll let Kevin DeYoung provide the explanation for why Calvin never meant that in the way that the authors in this book claim. Fiction the road back to you summary Knowing yourself says the author leads to restoring our authentic selves which is purportedly what God wants for us pg 23 At one point the author talks about a highly evolved Three named David and quotes him as saying Today I think far less about winning and losing and about David ing pg 136 This is supposedly after the man had a meet Jesus crisis I don t know a lot of people who after truly meeting Jesus become interested in themselves but this is the very type of enlightened thought the book is trying to promote Third the whole concept is just subjective and anecdotal Apparently the Enneagram theory is that though we all adopt one and only one of these Types in childhood there are an infinite number of expressions of each number some of which might present in a similar way to yours and many of which will look nothing like you on the exterior but you are all still variations of the same primary color pg 25 Well that s handy Everyone has one type and only one but the type could look like basically anything That s how you invent an indisputable theory Cron writes Don t expect to identify with every single feature of your number you won t Just be on the lookout for the one that comes the closest to describing who you are If it s any comfort it takes some people several months to explore the numbers and gather feedback from others before they feel confident in identifying their type pg 38 He goes on to say that While your motivation what drives you at the deepest level and your number can never change your behavior can be influenced by these other numbers Types so much so that you can even look like one of them from time to time pg 28 In fact with the one number that you supposedly really are and the way you re influenced by the wing numbers in both stress and security any person could cover than half of the Types in the system without being inconsistent with their main Type That s convenient for the system and you ve got to hand it to them for building in an explanation for why people actually don t line up with the types all the time even though their explanation kind of negates the whole thing in my opinion. The road leads back to you I also found it strange that apparently many Enneagram teachers believe that the Six Type makes up than half the world s population There are nine types but half the world is a Six Ok Lastly while I had the most trouble theologically with the 40 50 pages of the introduction and conclusion since that is where the author outlines his incredibly flawed theory about life complete with exclamations and anecdotes about how life changing it all is the rest of the book was pretty tedious mentally The whole middle about 190 pages is just nine chapters one for each of the nine Types They all follow the same formatting and have the same components so by about the third one it becomes sort of a drudgery to get through them all especially when the theory that these Types are based off of has been just about completely discredited by its explanation in the introduction If it hadn t been a work assignment I wouldn t have finished the book Out of all of this I did take away a few things from this book In particular I liked this quote Like flowers relationships don t grow in the dark Relationships bloom in the light of self disclosure pg 180 And also this quote we can t change the way we see only what we do with what we see pg 95 In a sense I think I agree that the way we view the world will always be flawed and different from other people but we are accountable to work with what we have and to glorify God with what we know see at any given time Of course I also take God at his word when he says that If any of you lacks wisdom let him ask God who gives generously to all without reproach and it will be given him James 1 5 God does over time and through the work of the Spirit open Christian s eyes to see things differently I also can appreciate the fact that we are indeed different from one another I don t buy into this system of explaining those differences but I do think it s helpful to be reminded that we approach things differently Toward the end of the book the author writes When you realize that your Loyalist Six husband views the world as a place filled with danger and uncertainty and he in turn understands that when you get up in the morning you as a Performer Three feel an urgent need to compete and excel at everything you do it s amazing how much compassion you can for each other Everything isn t so personal any pg 227 I can relate to this sentiment as I see it play out in how my husband and I think about life I see it in my co workers my family my church family my friends etc We are different And did I see myself in any of the Types Well yes I did If you re going to attempt to describe just about all of human behavior in the context of nine basic Types people are bound to relate to a few of them There were a couple that stood out to me in particular but also a handful that I could easily relate to There were really only one or two that I didn t relate to in some way There were also some Types that I read about that instantly brought to mind someone I know Does this prove the theory Not to me although I know some people who swear by it The whole thing is just too subjective for me It reminds me of astrology make vague enough statements and they will sound true most of the time And like I said earlier I don t necessarily begrudge people of exploring theories of personality but if you re going to wrap it in a Christian fa ade and tell people it will bring them closer to God that s a different story I don t know what kind of religion this is but it s not Christianity Even the most basic concepts of Christianity like sin and salvation are redefined to suit the author s purposes It s has a couple of vague references biblical characters like Paul and Job but it s otherwise full of fuzzy pseudo Christian ideas like Christianity is not something you do as much as something that gets done to you Once you know the dark side of your personality simply give God consent to do for you what you ve never been able to do for yourself namely bring meaningful and lasting change to your life pg 36 Sadly the author and the people that the author reveres has committed himself to the Enneagram and has tried to work the Bible in where he can wants to But the Bible isn t an additive it s the main ingredient The Bible when taken at its word must be first Anything less is a misunderstanding and misapplication of what it claims to be in and of itself This book theory is a perfect example of the ineffectual misleading harmful and specious mish mash that you get when you abandon the Bible as the one authoritative source of truth. The road back to you study guide We should be very concerned that the teaching about the Enneagram has made its way into churches I have a friend who used to attend a church that had someone come present on this topic at church May our boast be not of self but I have been crucified with Christ It is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me Galatians 2 20 You were running well Who hindered you from obeying the truth This persuasion is not from him who calls you A little leaven leavens the whole lump I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty whoever he is Galatians 5 7 10 238
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