Enneagram and Marriage

In this episode, join Christa and Melody Hardin, Enneagram Nine as they walk through each Enneagram type through the lens of Marvel characters. Join us as we hack out each type in nuanced detail with some superhero fun typing Iron Man, Black Widow, Loki, Bucky, Roadie, Dr. Strange and more and bring joy but also meaningful insights as we enjoy a lighter moment on this Hallo-week episode! Get Christa's book, "The Enneagram in Marriage: Your Guide to Thriving Together in Your Unique Pairing" here paperback, Audible, or Kindle! Use the Baker code "EMBOOK40" for 40% off and free US Standard Shipping here! Watch the episode on YouTube here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We get scared as humans when we feel our pair bond is threatened and today's episode is designed to empower you to feel both safe and loved together, type by type. Listen to tips for your partner of each type and find not just goals but systems to carefully place these specific tips into actionable steps so you can truly begin thriving more and more together, starting today! Get my book, "The Enneagram in Marriage: Your Guide to Thriving Together in Your Unique Pairing" here paperback, audible, or Kindle! Here's the Instagram contest! Watch the episode on YouTube here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

To find our truest mission, it's not only important to find our personal gifts, but there's a deeper joy in marriage in finding collective missions, too, not just to be self-serving as a couple. Here in this episode, Christa helps you to find synchronization together with your partner, to encourage growth in one another as well as celebrate one another's gifts and struggles. She brings her husband Wes, Enneagram 1 also on as he helps you to learn to sit with your spouse's gifts and struggles with grace, a lesson we all need in an ongoing way. Tune in here! Use the code "EMPOD40" for 40% off here and free shipping at BakerBookHouse.com Visit www.enneagramandmarriage.com for all of your relationship needs today! Watch episode on YouTube! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Though each of us is unique, today on this E + M short, we're talking about the three most common reasons why couples cite divorce and ways to prevent your own relationship from becoming a passive casualty. One of the main ways we will keep this episode hope-filled is that we're also sharing tools for the specific timelines where issues tend to crop up and take down 43-44% of married couples. Don't miss this noteworthy, logical, and encouraging episode that will help you sit up, take note, and move into a healthy direction together today! Get the 52 Week Glow Relationship Planner here! Use the code "EMPOD40" for 40% off here and free shipping at BakerBookHouse.com Visit www.enneagramandmarriage.com for all of your relationship needs today! Watch episode on YouTube! HAVE A QUESTION? Do you have a question about how the Enneagram can help your marriage or any relationship issue at all? Share it here via audio call for Channel Mom Radio and Christa can talk about it on air/the Channel Mom podcast this coming week as well as on the E + M Instagram Live! 303-873-1935 (leave aa question for Christa here for Channel Mom) or visit Christa on Instagram here on Thurs 12 PM EST to ask a question there! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When we're not honest with our spouse and with God about what's actually going on inside, we bring that darkness and the layers of hiding to our spouses and families. Whether you're hiding from each other because you feel hopeless, angry, hurt, or believe that being honest will drive you even farther away from your goals of connection, this is a MUST-LISTEN episode guiding you and your relationship back to true intimacy.  Christa is joined by Justin Davis, best-selling USA Today author (Being Authentic is Greater Than Being Perfect: How Transparency Leads to Transformation), Enneagram 8 (8-3 pairing), who joins us to speak of his own marriage and how he increasingly learned the importance of confession, prayer, and bringing secrets from the darkness. If you want a walk closer to humility, authenticity, and integrity, don't miss this episode helping you to draw closer to God and one another in marriage, family, and a healthy community. Show Notes: Justin Davis', "Being Real > Being Perfect: How Transparency Leads to Transformation" is right here:  Find Justin and Trisha's Refine Us marriage ministry here, where they help couples all over recover from trauma, including infidelity recovery Get Christa's new book The Enneagram in Marriage, available now wherever books are sold, or get it at 40% off with free standard shipping when you order from BakerBookHouse.com and use the promo code EMBOOK40. Link: https://bakerbookhouse.com/products/516448   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Finding your marriage mission just isn’t possible without finding your own authentic God-given gifting, a gift others may have missed in your life. Today Christa intimately weaves her own stories and encouragements for you together on the podcast to give you a lift in finding your authentic self before God. This episode can help you to destabilize shame in your life and find your gifting again with yourself and with God, even amidst church hurt, family of origin wounds, marriage hurt, and more. Listen here or watch on YouTube here! Use the code EMBOOK40 for 40% off the book right here at Baker Books also! https://bakerbookhouse.com/products/516448 Also, don’t forget to enter the glow contest right here! Visit www.EnneagramandMarriage.com for all of your relationship care needs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today we take a peek into the soul of the Enneagram in Marriage book in a heartfelt conversation with Christa and the Baker Books executive editor Christa worked with on the pages of it, Stephanie Duncan Smith (Slant Letter, @stephanieduncansmith on Instagram). Stephanie and Christa discuss not only the heart of the mission of E + M in the pages of the book but also private writing as soul care, and how partners can and must give one another support, liftoff, and a safe place for us to explore our dreams. We hear about Stephanie's 4-8 marriage pairing, her reason for championing Christa's book at the pub board and onward as the book finally gets launch liftoff, and so much more in this interview together! Don't have the book yet? Make sure you grab it here to walk alongside Christa in this Amazon #1 Top New Release in Christian Marriage here! Get it here! or here >> https://a.co/d/9P4KvVF Watch on YouTube here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When you're in seasons of shadow, it often feels like your spouse is the antihero and you're not only the hero but the author, writing your own story and having to rely on whatever methods you need to survive. In the new "Enneagram in Marriage" book, we remember together that it's not so much about casting judgment on one person wholly as it is about discovering the emotional backstory behind the maladaptive marriage struggles in one or both partners -  and more, just what can be done about this so your vices don't inevitably make things worse. In this brand-new Enneagram in Marriage book backstory series, Christa unlocks the often misread complex layers contributing to keeping our vices locked into place piece by piece, and puts her cards on the table to bring her husband Wes on to share his side of the book intro story about her own vices as well. Join us for this series as you also unlock the mysteries still undetected in your own and your spouse's life. Don't have the book yet? Make sure you grab it here to walk alongside Christa in this Amazon #1 Top New Release in Christian Marriage here! Get it here! or here >> https://a.co/d/9P4KvVF Watch on YouTube here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today, our biggest hearts for you are for you to reach into the pages of Christa's brand-new book that launched today, The Enneagram in Marriage: Your Guide to Thriving Together in Your Unique Pairing, which LAUNCHED TODAY! This is a book dedicated to helping you to grow healthier in the ways you shine together in your relationship and yes, it's finally here for you to order wherever you buy books, including Kindle and Audible, etc! In this open-hearted episode, Christa dives into the purposes and intent of each chapter and shares vulnerable pieces of her heart, stirring this community to courage in taking steps forward together as we cross from shadowlands into light.   Order it here on Amazon! Order it here at Baker! Watch this episode on YouTube here!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As Christa prepares to launch her new book into the world tomorrow, she draws strength from one of her greatest heroes, J.R.R. Tolkien, reminding listeners of the absolute necessities we can learn for our own life's epics on the shadowy roads of life and relationships. Join us as we share about the week's adventures here at E + M as well as what you came for, an epic saga of psychology, literature, lore, and lessons with the bestselling "Lord" of the Rings, himself. Stay tuned for our heart-driven mid-week launch week episode as well that airs tomorrow on launch day! TOMORROW IS LAUNCH DAY! TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO GET PRE-ORDER BONUSES! ORDER HERE AND CLAIM YOUR BONUSES AT WWW.ENNEAGRAMANDMARRIAGE.COM Watch episode on YouTube!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices