Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
Written by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile
Narrated by Ian Morgan Cron
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Ian Morgan Cron
Ian Morgan Cron is a renowned teacher of the Enneagram, the bestselling author of The Road Back to You and The Story of You, an Episcopal priest, and a trained psychotherapist. Cron hosts the popular podcast Typology and is a highly sought after speaker for conferences. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife, Anne.
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Reviews for Road Back to You
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved 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.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book was well read and super enlightening! Thank you!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great introduction to the enneagram! Well worth the time.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is Great book and overview to the enneagram!! Thank you!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent book - informative, well laid out and entertaining! Great read!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5absolutely awesome. one of the best Christian and Enneagram books I've ever read. deep knowledge and light language.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I am in love with the audio book. Joyful exploration of Enneagram. Very helpful, especially the spiritual correlation.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The 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 stars5/5Excellent primer on The Enneagram! I really enjoyed the author Ian Kron’s reading of the book!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Well written and read, very thought provoking and makes conversations with family and friends interesting afterward.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This 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 stars5/5Beautiful explanation! Examples narrated make the learning so personal and relatable!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great 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 stars5/5Great 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 stars5/5It was so great to read and understand how each personality is motivated.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Was 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 stars5/5Deep, kind and entertaining. This book is a gift to the world.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This 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 stars5/5I 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 stars5/5If 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 stars5/5Coupled 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 stars3/5My 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 stars4/5A 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 stars3/5This 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 stars5/5Prior 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.*