
Enneagram and Marriage
The Enneagram and Marriage Podcast, hosted by Christa Hardin, MA, is rooted in two decades of experience counseling and coaching couples. On top of her expert marriage advice, Christa uses the Enneagram to add another layer of understanding in how we work as individuals and gives us deeper insight into how we connect and shine together in marriage and relationships across the collective community.
Latest episodes

Mar 30, 2022 • 49min
Enneagram Nine in Marriage: The Deeper Dive
Join Christa as she and Jenn take you on a deep dive discussing the following traits of Type Nine in marriage and relationships. They talk about the origins of a Nine, the vices (passions), fixations (thought patterns), subtypes, wings, arrows, and most of all tips for a healthier and more fulfilled life and marriage. Share this episode with the Enneagram Nine in your life so you can shine brighter together all year long! Grab your PDF copy of our in-depth Deep Dive on Type Nine (and all the types!) >> here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 28, 2022 • 52min
Finding Forgiveness in Marriage & Relationships
Christa is joined by Lisa Carter of Stonegate Fellowship as they discuss the fascinating forgiveness research surrounding the Enneagram and marriage. Learn through you and your spouse's type's lenses so you can find ways back to true and unfiltered and forgiving connection with your spouse! Find Lisa's ministry outreach team at Stonegate Fellowship here: https://stonegatefellowship.com/ Find Lisa's Marriage Unfiltered podcast >> here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 23, 2022 • 42min
The Enneagram Eight in Marriage: The Deeper Dive Series
Join Christa as she and Jenn take you on a deep dive discussing the following traits of Type Eight in marriage and relationships. They talk about the origins of a Eight, the vices (passions), fixations (thought patterns), subtypes, wings, arrows, and most of all tips for a healthier and more fulfilled life and marriage. Share this episode with the Enneagram Eight in your life so you can shine brighter together all year long! Grab your PDF copy of our in-depth Deep Dive on Type Eight (and all the types!) >> here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 21, 2022 • 1h 18min
Leslie Hershberger and Using the Centers Approach to Conflict
There are three distinctive ways of being that are hard-wired into our nervous systems and they are associated with the three centers in the Enneagram, body, heart, and mind. Today Leslie Hershberger, Enneagram expert of 25+ years, and married to her husband Dave for 40 years, shares with us here and on YouTube about the ways we process conflict in marriage. Don't miss Leslie's very deep dive into the centers with us as she unpacks the ways we defend our positions as well as the ways we can continue to find a richer path to healing together. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/g9QQ1JDz44U Find Leslie's website here! https://lesliehershberger.com/ https://lesliehershberger.com/courses/foundations-of-the-enneagram/ World Vision Ukrainian Fund Head on over to enneagramandmarriage.com to check out all of our amazing freebies and resources! Instagram: @enneagramandmarriage | @enneagrammarriagepod Facebook @ enneagramandmarriage Have a specific question? Fill out this form to get your personal questions answered now! Or leave us a comment or question by sending an MP4 recording to enneagramandmarriage@gmail.com. (You can use your voice memos app on your iPhone to record). Love what you're learning on E + M? Make sure you leave us a 5-Star review so others can find us, too right >> here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 16, 2022 • 49min
The Enneagram Seven in Marriage: The Deeper Dive Series
Join Christa as she and Jenn take you on a deep dive discussing the following traits of Type Seven in marriage and relationships. They talk about the origins of a Seven, the vices (passions), fixations (thought patterns), subtypes, wings, arrows, and most of all tips for a healthier and more fulfilled life and marriage. Share this episode with the Enneagram Seven in your life so you can shine brighter together all year long! Grab your PDF copy of our in-depth Deep Dive on Type Seven (and all the types!) >> here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 14, 2022 • 47min
Solving Conflict with Marriage Helper's CEO Kimberly Holmes, Enneagram 3
Many couples think that conflict is bad or unhealthy but our most recent studies and experts on the show, including Kimberly Holmes, the CEO of the world-renowned relationship outreach, Marriage Helper, disagree. Conflict keeps a marriage honest, healthy, and allows couples to learn with each other and to teach one another. Today Christa is joined by Kimberly, who is an Enneagram 3, to talk about the healthy ways couples can specifically grow in the area of conflict resolution so that they can use it to strengthen them and not tear them apart. For deep dives into your own relationship work, head on over to enneagramandmarriage.com to check out all of our amazing freebies and resources! Grab your deeper dive here: Deep Dives Head on over to enneagramandmarriage.com to check out all of our amazing freebies and resources! Instagram: @enneagramandmarriage | @enneagrammarriagepod Facebook @ enneagramandmarriage Have a specific question? Fill out this form to get your personal questions answered now! Or leave us a comment or question by sending an MP4 recording to enneagramandmarriage@gmail.com. (You can use your voice memos app on your iPhone to record). Love what you're learning on E + M? Make sure you leave us a 5-Star review so others can find us, too right >> here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 11, 2022 • 1h 1min
Special Episode on Netfix & The Love is Blind Social Experiment
What happens when real love is actually on tap at Netflix? Tune in to hear our fun tea and convo on the social experiment of Season 2: Love is Blind as we discuss the love stories that skyrocketed the show to the number #1 rank on Netflix last week and had seventy percent of our audience intrigued. Christa and guest Olivia Haymond bring you right into the experiment with us as we discuss the love we saw on air, surmise about being in the shoes of the show members, and of course, try to extend grace and wisdom as we wrap our fascinated minds around the good, the bad, and the ugly of love blindness with you! Grab your deeper dive here: Deep Dives Head on over to enneagramandmarriage.com to check out all of our amazing freebies and resources! Instagram: @enneagramandmarriage | @enneagrammarriagepod Facebook @ enneagramandmarriage Have a specific question? Fill out this form to get your personal questions answered now! Or leave us a comment or question by sending an MP4 recording to enneagramandmarriage@gmail.com. (You can use your voice memos app on your iPhone to record). Love what you're learning on E + M? Make sure you leave us a 5-Star review so others can find us, too right >> here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 9, 2022 • 44min
The Enneagram Six in Marriage: The Deeper Dive Series
Join Christa as she and Jenn take you on a deep dive discussing the following traits of Type Six in marriage and relationships. They talk about the origins of a Six, the vices (passions), fixations (thought patterns), subtypes, wings, arrows, and most of all tips for a healthier and more fulfilled life and marriage. Share this episode with the Enneagram Six in your life so you can shine brighter together all year long! Grab your PDF copy of our in-depth Deep Dive on Type Six right here (and all the types!) >> here Head on over to enneagramandmarriage.com to check out all of our amazing freebies and resources! Instagram: @enneagramandmarriage | @enneagrammarriagepod Facebook @ enneagramandmarriage Have a specific question? Fill out this form to get your personal questions answered now! Or leave us a comment or question by sending an MP4 recording to enneagramandmarriage@gmail.com. (You can use your voice memos app on your iPhone to record). Love what you're learning on E + M? Make sure you leave us a 5-Star review so others can find us, too right >> here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 7, 2022 • 60min
Instincts in Marriage with Beatrice Chestnut
How can we shift our knee-jerk instinctual responses in marriage? How can we offer more compassion and growth opportunities where we may have written one another off as deficient? In today's episode Christa chats with world-renowned Enneagram teacher, thought leader, and coach Beatrice Chestnut of CP Enneagram Academy about how we can both respond to and gently learn to shift and balance with our spouses, partners, and communities as we learn about our SP (self-preserving), SX (sexual), and SO (social) instincts together. Find Beatrice Chestnut's books, podcast, and masterclasses with Uranio Paes at CP Enneagram here https://cpenneagram.com/ Head on over to enneagramandmarriage.com to check out all of our amazing freebies and resources! Instagram: @enneagramandmarriage | @enneagrammarriagepod Facebook @ enneagramandmarriage Have a specific question? Fill out this form to get your personal questions answered now! Or leave us a comment or question by sending an MP4 recording to enneagramandmarriage@gmail.com. (You can use your voice memos app on your iPhone to record). Love what you're learning on E + M? Make sure you leave us a 5-Star review so others can find us, too right >> here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 2, 2022 • 43min
The Enneagram Five In Marriage: The Deeper Dive Series
Join Christa as she and Jenn take you on a deep dive discussing the following traits of Type Five in marriage and relationships. They talk about the origins of a Five, the vices (passions), fixations (thought patterns), subtypes, wings, arrows, and most of all tips for a healthier and more fulfilled life and marriage. Share this episode with the Enneagram Five in your life so you can shine brighter together all year long! Grab your PDF copy of our in-depth Deep Dive on Type Five right here (and all the types!) >> here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices