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Enneagram and Marriage

418 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 184 ratings

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.

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The Enneagram for Moms w/Beth McCord, Type 9

July 08, 2024 06:00 - 41 minutes

Healthy parenting involves not only the journey of helping to love our kids but also understanding ourselves and the ways we handle stress. This often involves doing some healing around our own developmental stories. When we learn to self-regulate well, we bring a non-anxious connected presence of attunement with our kids so they thrive and we thrive, too. Today the Enneagram & Marriage audience is learning from master Enneagram coach, Beth McCord, Type 9 (Your Enneagram Coach which has over ...

All About Type Threes + Threes w/Each Type in Relationship

July 03, 2024 04:00 - 28 minutes

It feels so good to be known and seen for who we are, as well as to have clarified spaces from which to grow. To this end, today’s special shorter episode is a walk-through of the Enneagram type Threes and who they are, as well as who they can become as they walk toward health. If you're a Three, learn how to become the healthiest version of yourself in relationship and take a special mini-peek at how Threes relate with each and every type in marriage or relationship of any kind. Enjoy this e...

How to Negotiate Well in Your Marriage w/Dr. Wyatt Fisher

July 01, 2024 06:00 - 31 minutes

Making negotiations in marriage is essential yet how we come to these is quite the task to undertake without good tools and training. Today we learn from an expert at negotiating in marriage, Dr. Wyatt Fisher (type 3/5) who has so many great tips for us today! Join in as we walk through them together strategically right here and use the tips today in your marriage for your toughest issues. Watch on YouTube here! Show Notes: Find Dr. Wyatt Fisher's amazing tools on his website here!! https://w...

All About Type Fours + Fours With Each Type in Relationship

June 26, 2024 06:00 - 24 minutes

It feels so good to be known and seen for who we are, as well as to have clarified spaces from which to grow. To this end, today’s special shorter episode is a walk-through of the Enneagram type Fours and who they are, as well as who they can become as they walk toward health. If you're a Four, learn how to become the healthiest version of yourself in relationship and take a special mini-peek at how Fours relate with each and every type in marriage or relationship of any kind. Enjoy this epis...

Creating Slow Rhythms in Your Marriage & Family w/Chris and Jenni Graebe, 7-1 Pairing

June 24, 2024 06:00 - 39 minutes

Today, we get to chat with Chris and Jenny Graebe (7w8 and 1w9 pairing) about how they slow down to create healthy rhythms for their marriage and for a healthy, intentional life of love and faith with their five kids. They also share from both their first book together, 📖 The Rhythm of Us, and their brand new book, The Rhythm of Home as well. They talk about how through exploring five intentional practices of flourishing families, you will learn to map out a vision for your family legacy, c...

All About Type Fives + Fives With Each Type in Relationship

June 19, 2024 06:00 - 23 minutes

It feels so good to be known and seen for who we are, as well as to have clarified spaces from which to grow. To this end, today’s special shorter episode is a walk-through of the Enneagram type Fives and who they are, as well as who they can become as they walk toward health. If you're a Five, learn how to become the healthiest version of yourself in relationship and take a special mini-peek at how Fives relate with each and every type in marriage or relationship of any kind. Enjoy this epis...

Redeeming Your Time & Relationships with Best-Selling Author Jordan Raynor, Type 3

June 17, 2024 06:00 - 38 minutes

Do you feel like you have a lot of work goals but can't seem to accomplish anything in the allotted time your day actually gives you? Do you feel frenetic because you're trying to do a good job at work but then your family life, not to mention your marriage or life with God, is majorly lacking? There are so many shifts we can make as humans, and each of us will have to move a bit differently to accomplish the goal of margin and redeeming our time so we can each make every day count. Yet there...

All About Sixes + Sixes With Each Type in Relationship

June 12, 2024 06:00 - 21 minutes

It feels so good to be known and seen for who we are, as well as to have clarified spaces from which to grow. To this end, today’s special shorter episode is a walk-through of the Enneagram type Sixes and who they are, as well as who they can become as they walk toward health. If you're a Six, learn how to become the healthiest version of yourself in relationship and take a special mini-peek at how Sixes relate with each and every type in marriage or relationship of any kind. Enjoy this episo...

Tips for Traveling for Every Type in Relationship, w/Geographer + Travel Expert, Angela Gilmeister, Type 1

June 10, 2024 06:00 - 53 minutes

As Tolkien once said, "Not all who wander are lost," and you will be even less relationally lost as you wander into learning with E + M about the ins and outs of traveling with your spouse and/or family and friends! Take some time today to invest in the tips in this episode from travel expert and geographer Angela Gilmeister, Type 1 (Wild Hair Travels, Happy Women Travel Podcast) in this extra special E + M episode! Details include an excursion about traveling alone as a couple, a couple with...

All About Type Sevens + Sevens With Each Type in Relationship

June 05, 2024 06:00 - 36 minutes

It feels so good to be known and seen for who we are, as well as to have clarified spaces from which to grow. To this end, today’s special shorter episode is a walk-through of the Enneagram type Seven and who they are, as well as who they can become as they walk toward health. If you're a Seven, learn how to become the healthiest version of yourself in relationship and take a special mini-peek at how Sevens relate with each and every type in marriage or relationship of any kind. Enjoy this ep...

How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told with Dr. Harrison Scott Key, Ph.D.

June 03, 2024 06:00 - 59 minutes

When infidelity wounds a couple, in the wise words of our guest today, Dr. Harrison Scott Key, Ph.D, best-selling author and the winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, there's a marriage murder mystery to be solved: Who killed this marriage, is it really dead, and can it come back to life? Join us for a riveting and deep-diving episode with Key, surrounding the events of his unexpectedly vulnerable marriage epic about when his wife confessed to infidelity that comes out this week in ...

All About Type Eights + Eights w/Each Type in Relationship

May 29, 2024 03:51 - 30 minutes

It feels so good to be known and seen for who we are, as well as to have clarified spaces from which to grow. To this end, today’s special shorter episode is a walk-through of the Enneagram type Eight and who they are, as well as who they can become as they walk toward health. If you're an Eight, learn how to become the healthiest version of yourself in relationship and take a special mini-peek at how Eights relate with each and every type in marriage or relationship of any kind. Enjoy this e...

Somatic Tips for Every Type in Marriage w/Author and Coach Melissa Kircher, Type 5

May 27, 2024 10:37 - 51 minutes

What a necessity it is to have great tools to process our conflict and trauma together in marriage, parenting, and relationships, and yet often in the moments of great felt threat or pain, our very bodies rise up in protective styles, even possibly blocking us from doing this work. Today we get to talk about bodywork or somatics and to learn some helpful trauma tools both in general and type by type with coach Melissa Kircher, Enneagram 5. Melissa is not only an author and artist, but she als...

All About Type Nines + Nines With Each Type in Relationship

May 22, 2024 06:00 - 24 minutes

It feels so good to be known and seen for who we are, as well as to have clarified spaces from which to grow. To this end, today’s special shorter episode is a walk-through of the Enneagram type Nine and who they are, as well as who they can become as they walk toward health. If you're a Nine, learn how to become the healthiest version of yourself in relationship and take a special mini-peek at how Nines relate with each and every type in marriage or relationship of any kind. Enjoy this episo...

Mental Health & Relationships Across Personality Types w/Danielle Fuller, MS, Type 9

May 20, 2024 06:00 - 48 minutes

May is mental health month, a time dedicated to bringing awareness to those struggling or wondering what may be going on with them on days when you feel less healthy. On today’s podcast, we are statistically shedding some light on which mental health struggles each type has significantly reported, including depression, anxiety, ADD, neurodivergence, and more. We’re also helping couples to understand more about how they can support one another with these mental health concerns if they’re relat...

Special Episode: This is Us Typing Episode w/Dana Lawson, Type 9

May 15, 2024 06:00 - 45 minutes

So many times we relate with characters in a song or media outlet and we don’t get to process them further. Today you have a chance to do this with Christa and guest Dana Lawson, Enneagram 9 (9-4 pairing) as they walk through This is Us with you! Join Christa and Dana with a cup of coffee or tea for a meaningful chat as we discuss the Pearson family, including but not limited to the Big Three! Listen right here and cast your vote on which types characters are by writing to us on Instagram in ...

How to Stop Striving and Live Purposefully and Abundantly w/Author Becky Kiser, 3w2

May 13, 2024 06:00 - 35 minutes

It can be so hard deciphering what your God-given dream is and then trying to get the steps just right, especially when you’re in the throes of motherhood or another busy season of life. Today we are joined by author and Enneagram 3w2 (3-6 pairing), Becky Kiser to talk about how she has learned to stop striving to slow down and listen with discernment about which steps to take in her busy life. Becky shares not only biblical wisdom but examples of how she has come to a place of both rest and ...

Mother's Day Special: Around the Table with Each Enneagram Type Mom w/Alisa Taylor, Type 9

May 08, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour

Happy Mother's Day to you and yours! In this Mother's Day week coffee chat with Christa and her dear friend of over twenty years, artist Alisa Taylor type 9, we both celebrate the gift of mom friends as well as discuss ways we can serve our children the very best nourishment across all levels of their emotional, spiritual, mental, and physical palates. Today we talk about what moms of each personality type have on their metaphorical table or plate and what they can share with joy as well as w...

What Every Partner of a 4, 6, or 8 Need to Know About Processing Conflict

May 08, 2024 06:00 - 22 minutes

We often find ourselves struggling when we have a spouse with a different way of solving conflict than we have. Today we talk about having conflict with our passionate 4s (artists) 6s (loyalists) and 8s (protectors) and what we can each to do find not only common ground but also passionate, enduring love! Don't forget! Mother's Day is coming! Get your beautiful free Mother's Day card download from Alisa here! https://alisataylordesign.etsy.com?coupon=FREEDOWNLOAD Find Alisa's beautiful art ...

Finding Hope in Hard Times w/Author and Pastor Matthew Stephen Brown, Type 3

May 06, 2024 06:00 - 36 minutes

Across the personality spectrum, we each offer different giftings, and Type Threes offer us the reminder of holy Hope - the reminder that the race is not over even when it's hard or even if it feels like a marathon. Today we are given hope today afresh as we are joined by author, pastor, and founder of Sandals Church, Matthew Stephen Brown, Enneagram 3 with the refreshing reminders of faith in the midst of constantly scanning for negativity, especially in hard times. If you could use some enc...

What Every Spouse of a 2, 7, or 9 Partner Needs to Know About Processing Conflict

May 01, 2024 01:35 - 23 minutes

Many couples are frustrated by differing conflict styles and miss getting to resolution because of it. In this mini-episode, Christa assesses how to deal with conflict with someone who is positively-wired in the 2 (the Giver), 7 (the Enthusiast), or 9 (the Peacemaker) personality spaces. In this mini-episode Christa gives both general and type-specific tips for you to relate better with these types in your life and relationship! Come check it out! Spread the Enneagram & Marriage love! 🥳💕 Leav...

Working on Toxic Patterns in Your Relationship w/Psychotherapist Charisse Cooke, Type 2

April 29, 2024 06:00 - 41 minutes

How much emotional pain do couples have to endure before making the healthy changes that often feel so scary to initiate? This is a question many need to ask themselves since it's so vulnerable to break deep patterns of trauma together. Today Christa helps you to work through toxic relationship patterns with London-based psychotherapist and influencer Charisse Cooke as we talk about healing toxic bonding and trauma bonding. You CAN learn to find health and healing again or for the very first ...

Post-Traumatic Growth Lyrical Lessons from TTPD, Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poet's Department Dark Night of the Soul Album

April 24, 2024 02:06 - 19 minutes

On this special surprise mini-episode for Swiftie fans and for inquiring minds otherwise, Christa takes you on a journey of finding ways through pain to post-traumatic growth, analyzing through the lens of The Tortured Poet's Department Album (TTPD) from Taylor Swift. Join us for therapeutic lessons, fun, and a few meaningful takeaways for healthy ways to process grief, love, loss, and angst. In this episode we analyze Taylor's vulnerable path forward to healing, adding tips for post-relation...

Bringing Minimalism to Your Marriage w/Diane Boden, The Minimalist Mom, Type 7 (7-5 Pairing)

April 22, 2024 06:00 - 32 minutes

How do you go from busy and overloaded to present in marriage and family, especially when we know that "turning towards" behaviors are what make relationships succeed or fail long-term, especially when we differ SO much after a long span of time together in marriage? As we strive to connect in a truly frenetic world when we have so much to do along with all of these differences, today Christa is sharing a meaningful and uplifting conversation with you and top podcast expert on the massively s...

Learning to Reveal the Truth in Your Marriage w/Laurie Gerber, Enneagram 6

April 17, 2024 06:00 - 30 minutes

So many couples hold secrets from one another, but it's not healthy for either of you and you're not likely to tell one another the truth if you don't feel safe. Today we're joined by Laurie Gerber, Type 6 (6-2 pairing) who tells us how she worked from struggle to truth and freedom in her own marriage and gives you tangible tips to thrive from a place of truth. Questions we cover are "How do you start becoming more truthful?" "How do you tell harder truths?" "How can you welcome truth from y...

Bringing Joy & Clarity to Your Work w/Marty Munger, CEO, Work Coach Co, Type 7

April 15, 2024 04:00 - 42 minutes

Whether at home or the office, your work life is an enormous part of the day and deserves rich contemplation and optimization. Today Christa invites you to a conversation to greatly benefit you by bringing joy into your work rhythms by discovering your own Enneagram intelligence, emotional, and instinctual work strengths and areas for growth. With the new assessment that today's guest, Marty Munger, CEO of WorkCoach.co and her team developed just for you, you'll be able to thrive with clarity...

What Every Spouse of a Logically Wired Partner Needs to Know About Resolving Conflict

April 10, 2024 09:51 - 25 minutes

Each of us needs to understand the other in conflict and yet our personalities get in the way. This listener-requested episode helps you to walk through conflict with those people with temperaments who do not show as much emotion and/or prefer to solve problems logically or linearly. You'll learn ways you can develop a healthier internal narrative as well as prevent and repair conflict, building understanding together, too! Make sure you get a copy of "The Enneagram in Marriage" also here to ...

What Every Spouse of a 1, 3, or 5 (Logically Wired Partner) Needs to Know About Resolving Conflict

April 10, 2024 09:51 - 25 minutes

Each of us needs to understand the other in conflict and yet our personalities get in the way. This listener-requested episode helps you to walk through conflict with those people with temperaments who do not show as much emotion and/or prefer to solve problems logically or linearly. You'll learn ways you can develop a healthier internal narrative as well as prevent and repair conflict, building understanding together, too! Make sure you get a copy of "The Enneagram in Marriage" also here to ...

Finding Your Body's Monthly Rhythms for Relationship & Productivity, w/Occupational Therapist Renae Fieck, Enneagram 9w8

April 08, 2024 06:00 - 47 minutes

Troubleshooting your life and intimacy stresses also includes understanding the rhythms of your own unique sensory up and down regulating at work and in your marriage dance as well! If you want to truly ignite your love and work in the best ways possible, you’ll pay attention to these rhythms and honor each precious week across the month for what it really allows for versus forcing everything all at once. Yes, every week truly has a sacred gift of its own, whether rest, reflection, or revving...

Understanding the Sexual Response Cycle in Marriage: Igniting the Sexual Instinct Series

April 03, 2024 06:00 - 30 minutes

Often, couples are too uncomfortable to ask their pastor or marriage counselor about how to build their love life in marriage in the areas of not just building attraction and desire and also how to successfully approach sexual arousal and resolution, especially since statistically women experience about half the full sexual arousal as compared to men. Improving your sexual intimacy together in the bedroom takes not only guesswork but active research and tips that begin outside of the bedroom ...

Sacred Rest for You & Your Relationship w/Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, MD, Type 3

April 01, 2024 06:00 - 36 minutes

Rest is the most underused, safe, and chemical-free alternative to relieve stress, and it's about way more than just sleep. Today we cover seven different kinds of rest you need with our esteemed guest author, researcher, and physician, Dr. Sandra Dalton-Smith, MD, Enneagram 3 (as featured on TedX, CNN, Fox, MSNBC), to tell us how we can and must get rest (and we even offer you a free test to find your rest deficits!). Join us for a vulnerable conversation where we reveal the types of rest Ch...

Sacred Rest for You & Your Relationship w/Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, MD, Type 3

April 01, 2024 06:00 - 36 minutes

Rest is the most underused, safe, and chemical-free alternative to relieve stress, and it's about way more than just sleep. Today we cover seven different kinds of rest you need with our esteemed guest author, researcher, and physician, Dr. Sandra Dalton-Smith, MD, Enneagram 3 (as featured on TedX, CNN, Fox, MSNBC), to tell us how we can and must get rest (and we even offer you a free test to find your rest deficits!). Join us for a vulnerable conversation where we reveal the types of rest Ch...

Building Sexual Attraction Together in Marriage: Igniting the SX Instinct Together in Marriage

March 27, 2024 06:00 - 26 minutes

As you aim for a healthy and loving sexual intimacy life in your marriage, in this second installment of the Igniting Your SX Instinct Series of the Enneagram and Marriage podcast, we're not only discussing what attracts us to one another and what builds our love and chemistry up, but also about what builds desire biologically, psychologically, and emotionally for a healthy love life together just for the two of you in your marriage! Watch on YouTube here! This week only, join the Enneagram &...

Connecting Authentically to Process Our Joy & Grief, w/Author Molly Stillman, 2w3 (2-8 Pairing)

March 25, 2024 06:00 - 57 minutes

Right now in our highly curated culture, individuals are desperately seeking authenticity, depth, and understanding together. This is because we all need connection as we process hard pieces of life and grief together if we want joy, love, and laughter to genuinely emerge from a healthy space. To tackle this huge topic with joy and depth both, Christa is joined by the highly authentic (and highly humorous) author and podcast host Molly Stillman (The Molly Stillman Show), author of the deeply ...

Igniting the SX Instinct in Marriage: An E + M Series

March 20, 2024 09:36 - 15 minutes

Marriages are often broken down by unhealthy sexual intimacy triggers and practices and in your quest to get healthy intimately together in your sexual instincts, you need to address your connection from a foundation of goodness. In this new E + M Series, you'll learn to connect through intimacy that starts with foreplay both outside and inside of the bedroom. Here we begin to ignite your passion again by laying intimacy building blocks as you and your spouse to build a safe emotional landsca...

Help for Dealing with Narcissists in Relationships, w/NPD Certified Expert Melissa Thompson

March 18, 2024 06:00 - 43 minutes

Though compassion and gentleness are wonderful traits, when these traits are paired with codependency, enabling, and a lack of healthy boundaries, vulnerable individuals, namely empaths, often repeat familiar trauma cycles by pairing with a mate who has high narcissism markers in relationships, sometimes even pathologically so. This high tolerance for unchecked inappropriate behaviors can lead to fawning or freezing when it's time to set boundaries, get help, or leave a dangerous relationship...

Typing + Lessons in Love from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice w/Hannah Hardin, Type 4

March 13, 2024 06:00 - 41 minutes

In this just-for-fun E + M on Spring break episode, we ask you to kick back and enjoy a relaxed and endearing episode as we discuss the enemies-to-lovers trope of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice as well as what types we think the most romantic couple of all time are, Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet. Don’t miss this chance to explore the hilarious cast of characters we will discuss with love and fun here on this E + M meet-cute of literature and love! Watch on YouTube here! Learn more about y...

Finding Restful Rhythms for Your Personality Type in Marriage

March 11, 2024 06:00 - 29 minutes

Now that daylight savings time has come and you’re finding energy wherever you can, you'll also need rest so you can truly thrive together for the long haul. Here Christa helps each type set the tone for healthy and much-needed restful rhythms, which differ for individuals of each personality type both in life and in relationships. Listen and learn how to find healthy rest amidst the hard work for you and also your partner right here! Watch on YouiTube here! Get your Enneagram Glow pairing gu...

Improving Energy Levels for Your Relationship Type by Type

March 06, 2024 07:00 - 23 minutes

  As humans, we desire to use our energy well so we can tend to our families, and today we talk about putting this into place practically with joy. Since each type has a very particular way of over (or under) expending their energy, in this mini-episode, you're also getting a few brief tips for you type by type. Learn to use your energy to the very fullest for your relationships to thrive here! Watch on YouTube! Sign up to watch Apple Podcast Myers Briggs + Enneagram today also! https://po...

Caring for the Soul of the Helper with Dr. Holly Oxhandler, Ph.D., MSW, Enneagram 2 (2-9 Pairing)

March 04, 2024 07:00 - 37 minutes

If you’re serving clients, patients, kids, families, students, or helping at work in a fast-paced environment, inviting in restful rhythms in life or marriage may feel audacious and impossible next to your never-ending to-do list. However, those who are natural givers often deeply struggle to thrive because of this tendency to serve until burnout. Here you're invited to lean into practices that will help you to give for the long haul as we chat with Holly Oxhandler, Ph.D., MSW, author (Soul o...

An E + M Mini: Myers-Briggs (MBTI) & Your Marriage

February 28, 2024 07:00 - 18 minutes

Although the Enneagram is a wonderful tool to assess our relationship depths, other personality assessments also offer us excellent insight for our relationship love styles. Here Christa introduces you to Myers Briggs (the MBTI) in this listener-requested mini episode to give you a brief tutorial on how you may grow in love and work life together using this robust system. Explore Introverting versus Extroversion (I/E), Sensing versus Intuition (S/I), Thinking versus Feeling (T/F), and Judging...

How Neurobiology Can Bring Safety, Empowerment, and Connection, w/Juliane Taylor Shore, LMFT

February 26, 2024 07:00 - 41 minutes

Often you want so desperately to relate well and with joy together, but when a relational rupture happens, we don't know how to repair it with healthy shifts and boundaries. Here we are joined by neuroscience expert and licensed marriage and family therapist Juliane Taylor Shore to help us sort out how to handle more difficult experiences together. Juliane takes us through the heavy lifting of relationships at their best - and their worst - with comfort, empowerment, and a head, heart, and bo...

Cultivating Humility in Your Relationship (For All Personality Types)

February 21, 2024 07:00 - 17 minutes

Humility is the absence of pride and conceit in a relationship, and unfortunately, the underbelly of an individualistic Western philosophy is often a lack of it. Yet, sometimes we believe that if we’re humble, our partner will take narcissistic advantage of us, and if they’re not healthy, that may well just happen. Tune into this must-listen mini episode for tools for both of you to truly find the essential virtue of humility as well as steps to get there right here healthily for each and eve...

All the Light We Cannot See, w/Wes Hardin, Enneagram 1

February 19, 2024 04:33 - 51 minutes

When you share the gifts you have, the whole world is improved, little by little. In contrast, when couples and individuals get caught up in the dark desire to get ahead for themselves despite what happens to others, those who are weaker, elderly, less affluent, less desirable or otherwise more culturally marginalized get forgotten and discarded. In this episode, Christa walks you through sharing your light, even through discouragement, through the lens of the magnificent WWII novel, "All the...

Special Valentine’s Episode: Balancing Healthy Masculinity & Femininity To Ascend in Your Relationship

February 14, 2024 07:00 - 28 minutes

What do women find attractive long-term? How do you show strength and softness as a man? How do you allow for femininity without becoming weak? Join us today for this special love episode as we give tips for all of this, and moreover, as we give your love just the boost it needs in this mini-must listen episode on ascending the peaks of your relationship together! Watch on YouTube here! Sign up for the FREE Enneasummit on Love & Relationships right here! Get the conference all-access pass h...

Staying Calm & Resolving Conflict When You’re Upset, w/Mediator Hesha Abrams

February 12, 2024 07:00 - 44 minutes

So many times in marriage there are arguments that don't get resolved, underlying anger that doesn't get diffused, and tempers flying out of control, depending on your personality type. Today we are joined by world-renowned mediator and attorney Hesha Abrams who is an expert at not only helping you to find your power and self-control, but also in truly finding intimacy through actually resolving the conflicts at hand together in your marriage and other important relationships. Tune in here! S...

Taylor Swift and the Enneagram with Melody Hardin, Type 9

February 07, 2024 01:41 - 20 minutes

Music can speak to us in a way that words alone often cannot. In this week between the Grammys and the Superbowl, we're having fun sharing songs by Taylor Swift for each and every Enneagram type to enjoy in love, life, and times of lament, too. Watch on YouTube here!   Enjoy this E + M curated Taylor Swift & the Enneagram Spotify Playlist here. There are 2 songs for each type, in order 1-9, per the episode here! Join the E + M Coaching Certification here! Use code MASTERCLASS for $500 of...

Exploring the World of Girls and Parenting w/Nellie Harden, Type 2

February 05, 2024 07:00 - 59 minutes

Parenting requires nuanced architecture and then releasing kids to learn for themselves bit by bit - and all of this as you're navigating mood changes that start becoming real even in the grade school years. To help us through this sensitive topic, we are gifted with parenting expert Nellie Harden of Family Life, Enneagram 2, who shares her relational and brain-based biological expertise, as well as what she's gained from parenting four teen daughters along with her husband. Recollect your ow...

A Relaxation Exercise to Strengthen Emotional Agility: An E + M Mini Episode

January 31, 2024 07:00 - 17 minutes

Emotional agility is a necessary skill for relationship-building, so that when we find ourselves dysregulated, we can self-soothe. We need this practice time and again considering all of the ways we lose our footing in life and relationships. Enjoy and save this episode so you have a special practice to help you find your way back to joy and peace time and again. This guided imagery and relaxation episode helps you move from stress to finding your steps again when you feel triggered. Watch on...

Growing Your Business Without Burning Your Marriage or Family Out w/Amy Wicks, Type 7

January 29, 2024 07:00 - 41 minutes

How do you balance work and life? How do you grow at work but also leave room for family? What do successful leaders wish you knew at the beginning of an entrepreneurship journey? Today Christa is joined by superstar Amy Wicks and they are not holding back as they share tips for those wanting to create a better work-life balance. Join the chat here and sign up for the Elevate and Activate conference also! Watch on YouTube here! Find Amy's website here! Sign up for the Equip + Activate Leade...