Enneagram and Marriage

When marriage research combines with the determination and strength of the awesome 1-9 Glow pairing, watch out for an honest-to-goodness explosion of fun and wisdom for all the world to learn from. Join Christa as she interviews New York Times and Booklist favorite, power couple Nate Klemp, PhD and Kaley Klemp, MA, (Kaley's also an Enneagram Institute Coach!) as they talk us through how we can tur...

Your worldview greatly affects how you move in relationships and in life, and it especially influences how you get stuck, too. Depending on whether you're an idealist (1, 4, or 7), a relationalist (2, 5, or 8), or a pragmatist (3, 6, or 9), you operate differently, often contrasting your spouse in other groups or even a different kind of idealist, relationalist, or pragmatist than you. Listen to t...

Dr. Camden Morgante of the 9-6 Glow Pairing joins Christa to talk about both her pairing as well as her specialty of sex therapy. Many couples struggle in the sexual arena and today we take a different angle. Tune in to talk with us about some of the most painful and perplexing moments most couples walk through, including ED, pain and trauma in the bedroom, and more! Visit www. DrCamden.com for mo...

We're often so quick to grab our phones, work the extra hours, and totally forget about the best reasons for marriage, healing and play together. Sometimes there are deeper roots of connection we've lost or never really had and sometimes it's because we've just lost sight of what's really going to refresh us both as a couple and individually. We're joined today by Dr. Steve and Lisa Call of the Re...

It's so much fun to get inside of a couple's brain and heart and find out what makes them tick - together! Caroline, a full out heart type 4 and Parker an optimistic 7, show us a piece of their lives and their 4-7 Beautiful Adventure Glow as well. After almost fifteen years of marriage, they've grown in learning how to love not only each other but the world together as they help hurting children a...

Ever wonder what the personality trends are during pregnancy? How your marriage will shift with a baby? This listener-requested episode was fun and fascinating to research.  Tune in to hear the commonalities between types as well as the encouraging tips for getting through this difficult but tender and rewarding stage of life and marriage. Join Christa for stories, tips, as well as type by type tr...

Although it may seem a bit like a paradox, the 8-9 dyad is a very popular Enneagram Glow pairing and for good reason. Today's podcast is an interview with Liza Carden, Enneagram 8 and business coach, who shares so many tips and tools for helping your 9 to feel heard, helping your 8 to feel healthily vulnerable, and whatever your type, will be a gift to many listeners alike who want to find their b...

This week's interview with Jay Stringer, author of Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing, may be a truly life-changing episode for individuals or couples dealing with the ongoing cycle of addiction and destructive sexual behaviors. Get ready to embrace the opportunity to let your past story teach you about what it is you're truly looking for in the act of every destructive cyc...

Have you ever been told you’re good at guessing the types of others? Do you like hearing stories about couples who have gone the distance together? Today's episode is full of fun, family stories and forgiveness in marriage and is all for you as you get to try to figure out the mystery. What are this couple's types? Join us as Christa talks with Sears and Alisa Taylor on their surprising trek from...

When big dreams meet parent life, assertive personalities must shift in stride, as best as they can. Join Christa in talking to the assertive 3-7 heart and head Jet Set Glow Pairing as the delve deep into parenting life, working through trauma together with EMDR, and most especially, learning how to titrate the combination of their personalities as they take on planning, pain, and positivity in ma...

Approaching addiction recovery in a family without grace can place an already vulnerable spouse and family right in the shame cycle when what they need most is the blueprint for both healthy attachment and healthy self-soothing. Join Christa and find hope in understanding more about the process of working on your spouse or family member's addiction with critical relationship tools and research, fr...

Want both a drama-free marriage and the opportunity to work on conflict? Join the posh peacemaker Dr. Morgan Cutlip, PhD of the world renowned @mylovethinks as she takes us through this fascinating idea, sharing not only the depths and rhythms of her 3-9 Enneagram Glow pairing but also the ways she's learned to walk with patience each season, and with as little drama as possible. Dr. Morgan and Ch...

Dealing with conflict in marriage takes a certain amount of wisdom, patience, and love. Enneagram coach Brittany Thomas of one of the biggest Enneagram accounts, Enneagram Explained, takes us on the journey to find just that as she explains not only her 1-5 pairing Glow, Classically Brilliant, but also through the lens of the harmonic groups. Learn about the blind spots and strengths of those in t...

In this coffee and chat episode with the Maxey Co, Christa chats with Robby, 7sp and Morgan 1sp, to see how subtypes and gender cast a somewhat culturally different glow with a male 7 and female 1 in the mix. Learn exactly how the goodness of a body type can both ground and bring safety to a head type, while the head type brings self-compassionate and bigger dreams to the table. This couple is com...

Child loss is something no one can prepare for fully nor can we full recover. However, support is not only possible but vital and this episode is full of just that for those who have walked this journey, as well as those supporting friends and family through it. Christa interviews Dave and Laura, the 2-9 Loving Hospitality Pairing, as they share the process of walking through their own loss and th...

When you're stressed, you either go within, find a friend or spouse to chat with, or you aim to get social support with your favorite crew! In relationships, sometimes our favorite ways of surviving don't exactly appeal to our partners. What's more, often we sabotage ourselves by isolating one or two of the ways to survive and completely repressing the other. Join Christa in finding ways to soften...

Often in marriage, we bring our childhood wounds to the table in a way that carries on cycles, hurts our partners, and us too. Many times however, especially as we learn our Enneagram types, marriage can become a safe harbor for us to learn healthy vulnerability and attachment together. Join Christa in a talk with trauma expert Glenda Reagan who will help you find ways to grow close and to heal to...

Have you wondered why sex is so often out of sync? Why it's often  only pleasurable for one, or why there's so much emotional and physical pain in this supposedly wonderful area for many couples? Join Christa in interviewing Sheila Wray Gregoire, author of the new and vitally important book, "The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You've Been Taught And How to Uncover What God Intended." As an Enneagram 8...

Marriage issues cut deep to the heart and yet often it's uncomfortable to reveal ourselves at our vulnerable levels. Seth Studley, MA, LMFT and Melanie Studley, husband and wife and podcast hosts of the popular Anatomy of Marriage do NOT hold back as they admit to experiencing the rough edges of real marriage and how they've grown since finding the Enneagram. Join us as we talk about Melanie's 8 w...

When you're raising a family, how do you bring your personality type and subtypes in for the best form in family? Perhaps just as importantly, how do you block the worst of your pairing from showing up as well? Join Christa with husband-and-wife power couple Daniel and Christina Im, co-hosts of the popular Im Between Podcast to find out. This double heart, assertive 3-3 pairing share about their l...

Are you engaged, planning a wedding, or in the first few years of marriage? Have you been married for awhile but you're struggling to remember the "musts" of marriage? Join Christa (and late in the episode, a surprise guest!) in this fun and all-inclusive episode that goes into marriage "do's and don'ts," the "Big 3" areas (sex, finances, and communication), and of course, type by type tips for yo...

Your Enneagram work on your relationships is so important to your ongoing relationship success but did you know that before the world of Enneagram was popularized, there was and still is a marriage research system that every person working on their relationship will benefit from called The Gottman Method. Today's episode surrounds identifying key features of the research-based Gottman program for...

We are so honored to have the best-selling author of "The Road Back to You" and "The Path Between Us," Enneagram teacher Suzanne Stabile as our guest this week. Suzanne expertly teaches us relationship tips for every type and also offers us tips to help avoid typing our spouses. Suzanne has learned so much over the years, not only from her 2 & 9 marriage pairing with her husband Joe, but as an Enn...

This Valentine's week, we have our first official Enneagram Glow story for you with Jared and Kate Shaughnessy, an Enneagram 8-3, "Unstoppable" couple sharing their powerful falling-in-love and maintaining love stories both! Get ready to learn how to be more intentionally and healthily passionate from this strong and assertive couple, as well as what it takes to humbly let down one's guard and to...

Among the most frequent questions around the Enneagram world are those that revolve around relationship pairings. Though there’s no such thing as the "perfect type compatibility," there are indeed fascinating relationship trends. In fact, this January 2021, Truity conducted an 88,000 person relationship study to aid in Enneagram and relationship research and we're so grateful to share the results!...