Download The Path Between Us An Enneagram Journey to Healthy Relationships Suzanne Stabile 9780830846429 Books

Product details Hardcover 240 pages Publisher IVP Books (April 10, 2018) Language English ISBN-10 9780830846429 ISBN-13 978-0830846429 ASIN 0830846425

The Path Between Us An Enneagram Journey to Healthy Relationships Suzanne Stabile 9780830846429 Books Reviews

• Wow – there is a chapter about me and it has some tools that are helping me open up (a little) and letting others into my life.
  
  Probably the most important insight is the awareness there are more than two ways of being in the world. I have always known there were my way and their way. But the author identifies 8 other ways other people see the world. Once I got past the embarrassment of the revelations about me, I realized the awareness of why others behave differently can help me in my relationships with my immediate family.
  
  Some things the book has taught me about me are
  • I can “be in an intimate relationship without risking more than I can stand to lose.”
  • I cannot “live my life without needing help from others at times.”
  • I will have “to work to balance my thinking with some emotion and action.”
  
  I am old enough to realize my fences will always be there and I will always need gates if I want relationships with other people. The Path Between Us has given me some keys to unlock my gates and some lights to illuminate the paths to my gates.
  
  There is a chapter in The Path Between Us that is about you. A chapter that can help you beautify your paths so your relationships can blossom to their full potential.
• This book has the potential to be good, but it really didn't meet my expectations as a book about relationships through the lens of the Enneagram. Suzanne goes through each of the nine types, much like she and Ian did in The Road Back To You, but now the focus seems to be specifically on trouble spots in relationships for the nine types. Each chapter tells a story of how someone unintentionally hurt the ones they love with their own vices or excesses unique to their type. Of course, this type of information can be good and helpful if you're prepared for the fact that it can be, at times, painful to read. But when you're sold a book on relationships, it feels like a shortcut around writing a much longer and more detailed book specifically about the interplay between the types.
  
  Bottom line if you finished The Road Back To You and want to learn more about the ugly side of each of the types, this book is for you. But if you're looking for the interplay between a 4 and a 9, or a 7 and a 2, etc, you'll be disappointed by the lack of content.
• Suzanne Stabile is the most accessible teacher of the Enneagram that I have encountered. Her narrative style communicates vast knowledge in a tone that invites honest self-reflection and compassion for others. The Path Between Us is a brilliant combination of story-telling,fact sharing, and growth invitations to open the reader's eyes to how those they love see the world.
  
  Do you want to love better? Do you desire deeper connection in relationships? Do you long for insightful empathy toward people you disagree with? This book can be a wonderful guide in that journey!
• As a therapist, I use the Enneagram as a tool in my private practice. I have seen positive changes in my client’s lives and their relationships. I recommend this book to my clients often. I also recommend it to my friends and family.
  
  Suzanne Stabile gives us understandable, in-depth information about how we all see the world differently, react to the world differently and how this effects our relationships with others in our world.
  She opens the door to her wisdom of the enneagram providing us with insight about how each specific number typically behaves in relationships along with having an understanding as to how and why others respond to us in relationships.
  
  This book gives specific information on how each number can best get along with each other. The end of each chapter has bullet points on steps we can take to better ourselves and thus our relationships, along with things to keep in mind when relating to someone of a specific number.
  
  Suzanne Stabile’s “The Path between Us” is a great book for everyone to read. I highly recommend this book along with her first book “The Road back to You”.
• Suzanne Stabile is a Master Teacher of the Enneagram, having studied and taught it for many years in a variety of settings and contexts. This accessible book provides a map to healthier and more fulfilling relationships through the lens of the Enneagram. Having some basic knowledge of the Enneagram prior to reading this book would be helpful (I would suggest "The Road Back to You" co-authored with Ian Cron).
  
  At the end of each chapter, Stabile has two summary pages Relationships for Type Numbers and Relationships with Type Numbers. But don't just settle for the summaries. Each chapter is filled with wisdom from Suzanne's life and her interactions with people from all walks of life in all the places of the Enneagram. I found her section in each chapter, "Limitations in Relationships" to be particularly instructive.