Table of Contents

1. A Curious Theory of Unknown Origin
2. Finding Your Type
3. Type Eight: The Challenger
"Lead me, follow me, or get out of the way." —General George S. Patton Jr.
4. Type Nine: The Peacemaker
"You cannot find peace by avoiding life." —Virginia Woolf
5. Type One: The Perfectionist
"Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people." —Anne Lamott
6. Type Two: The Helper
"I want you to be happy, but I want to be the reason." —Anonymous
7. Type Three: The Performer
"The real question is, can you love the real me? . . . Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am." —Christine Feehan
8. Type Four: The Romantic
"If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you." —Tim Burton
9. Type Five: The Investigator
"I think I am, therefore, I am. I think.." —George Carlin
10. Type Six: The Loyalist
"There's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst."
—Stephen King
11. Type Seven: The Enthusiast
"Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings!" —Peter Pan
12. So Now What? The Beginning of Love
"The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves." —Thomas Merton
Acknowledgments
Notes

About the Author

Suzanne Stabile is a highly sought-after speaker, teacher, and internationally recognized Enneagram master teacher, having conducted over five hundred workshops. She is the author of The Path Between Us and she is creator and host of The Enneagram Journey podcast. Along with her husband, Rev. Joseph Stabile, she is cofounder of Life in the Trinity Ministry. Their ministry home, the Micah Center, is located in Dallas, Texas.

Ian Morgan Cron is a bestselling author, nationally recognized speaker, Enneagram teacher, counselor, Dove Award–winning songwriter, and Episcopal priest. His books include the novel Chasing Francis and spiritual memoir Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me. His most recent book is The Story of You: An Enneagram Journey to Becoming Your True Self. He and his wife, Anne, live in Nashville, Tennessee.

Reviews

"A true understanding of your Enneagram type will tell you more about your financial strengths and foibles than you can imagine. . . . I find The Road Back to You to be the most readable and applicable book I've read yet on the subject."
*Tim Maurer*

"An aid to those seeking to identify personality types, with a little bit of spirituality on the side."
*Sandra Colllins*

"Cron and Stabile walk through the Enneagram's nine different personality types and their distinct ways of seeing the world, showing how each one has a potentially infinite number of expressions, strengths, and weaknesses. Cron describes his own Enneagram experience as a feeling of waking up after having been asleep for a long time. He explains that in catching a glimpse of the person he was created to be, he began to see himself with the same delight, pride, and expectation with which God sees him, and to sense the immediacy of God's grace. 'In the spiritual life that's no small thing,' he writes."

"Cron brings his witty, energetic voice to this collaboration with Stabile, a retreat director and expert on the Enneagram—a system of personality typology with roots in Christian and Islamic mysticism. The beauty of the Enneagram is its charity: the system clearly names the flaws as well as the virtues of each personality type. The Enneagram also counsels humility and acknowledges its own limits ('[The Enneagram] is not infallible or inerrant,' writes Cron and Stabile)—a welcome modesty in religious understanding today."
*Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW, August 8, 2016*

"The Road Back to You is a great read for anyone who wants to grow in their knowledge of themselves and how it affects all your relationships. I would also highly recommend it for anyone who works with other people. It has the potential to give you a whole new understanding of the people you interact with on a daily basis."
*Nathan McCorkindale*