Eighty percent of adults say they want to write a book, but getting started can be intimidating. How does one even go about starting? How do you get an agent, and what are the first steps? Can you get help in the process? Today in this fascinating episode of the E + M pod, we're answering all these questions and so many more about the steps to making your writing dreams come true right here on today's show. And to help you truly thrive in the process, we're joined by none other than best-selling...
Aug 19, 2024•54 min•Season 6Ep. 52
It’s hard to be brave to step into our calling sometimes, especially if there's fear that God won’t show up for us. When we have heroes in real life or from our ancient narratives alike, we can be assured that we have a heritage of faith, tenacity, and even wins of epic proportions. Today we are joined by exemplary scholar, Dr. Sandra Richter, PhD, Harvard-trained biblical scholar and The Robert H. Gundry Chair of Biblical Studies at Westmont College to walk us through the captivating story of D...
Aug 14, 2024•58 min•Season 6Ep. 51
After the honeymoon years, it's easy to miss one another and see one another as enemies in relationship versus fighting for one another's dreams and aligning together. Lauren Handel Zander, Enneagram 8w7, helps you see things differently and then to find the life you're intentionally seeking together. Lauren, the developer of the highly esteemed Handel Method is an author and an international corporate consulting and private coach, empowering many public and private clients (Dr. Mark Hyman, Hugh...
Aug 12, 2024•47 min•Season 6Ep. 50
Couples work involves not just the external families each partner comes from, but also the internal systems each brings to the relationship. IFS (Internal Family Systems) research reminds us that couples can grow these internal systems with self-awareness and compassion individually and together. Today Christa offers the E + M audience a few basic strategies for doing this work together today. Join us for the deeper dive ISF couples episode today for the next level of care on Apple Podcast by su...
Aug 07, 2024•18 min•Season 6Ep. 49
It’s important that as we live out our day-to-day life that we also make sure these daily rituals we are taking part in are also truly bringing our deepest core gifts and values to light. When we are deeply intentional with rooting ourselves in our core values and then shaping our marriage relationship and social giving around that, we find the deepest joy and personal refreshment. Today Christa walks you through a life coaching session of sorts as you bring this joy and purpose forward through ...
Aug 05, 2024•48 min•Season 6Ep. 48
Many would argue that the Enneagram is an extremely helpful tool to help us organize and sort out our struggles in nuanced ways so we may more accurately heal and connect with mental health treatments that work. Yet is it a scientifically validated tool? Is it historically sound against naysayers? Perhaps most importantly, do the insights help people to live better lives? Join us to learn about the practical, scientific, and historical usage of the Enneagram and to learn more about the amazing e...
Jul 31, 2024•44 min•Season 6Ep. 48
As the Paris Olympics gets off the ground this summer, we've got a few fun recommendations for you as well as some personal growth tips for finding the shining virtues for you and your relationships as well. Join Christa (and early guest Melody Hardin) for a discussion on what to be on the lookout for this Olympic season as well as what YOU can do to get back to your healthiest expressions and virtues. We've got tips both by personality type as well as by instinctual variant for you right here s...
Jul 28, 2024•31 min•Season 6Ep. 46
Marriage issues in the bedroom can be downright confusing and complex across varying couple dynamics and seasons of marriage, especially when unhealthy message is unintentionally filtered in from trauma in any capacity. In this short, sweet, and yet deep-diving episode, Christa walks you through the highlights of The Hidden Chapter of The Enneagram in Marriage so you can find your intimacy stride again or for the very first time. Join us as we talk about purity culture issues, common dysfunction...
Jul 24, 2024•31 min•Season 6Ep. 45
Do you feel a lack of direction or margin in your life or relationship? That once you do get a few minutes to yourself, you’re overwhelmed and bogged down versus experiencing the refreshment, joy, and abundant life you know you're wired for? Today on the E + M podcast, you'll find the margin and clarity you need to thrive as we're joined by marketplace leader Carla H. Hayden, Enneagram 8, as we learn her recommendations for how a busy individual can partake in refreshing rituals for replenishmen...
Jul 22, 2024•40 min•Season 6Ep. 44
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 Ones and who they are, as well as who they can become as they walk toward health. If you're a One, learn how to become the healthiest version of yourself in relationship and take a special mini-peek at how Ones relate with each and every type in marriage or relationship of any kind. Enjoy this episode as...
Jul 17, 2024•24 min•Season 6Ep. 46
When a couple finds themselves aligned in values and begins to take care of themselves, often they're in the position to fulfill dreams and callings in a gorgeous new way. Today we get to talk to Raeanne Newquist who, along with her husband, left a predictable and safe life for a glorious adventure on Mercy Ships, where she and her family got to help save the lives of thousands who get free and life-saving surgeries that will both help them to live as well as prevent them from being ostracized i...
Jul 15, 2024•33 min
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 Twos and who they are, as well as who they can become as they walk toward health. If you're a Two, learn how to become the healthiest version of yourself in relationship and take a special mini-peek at how Twos relate with each and every type in marriage or relationship of any kind. Enjoy this episode as...
Jul 10, 2024•30 min•Season 6Ep. 44
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...
Jul 08, 2024•41 min•Season 6Ep. 43
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 epis...
Jul 03, 2024•28 min•Season 6Ep. 42
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://www....
Jul 01, 2024•32 min•Season 6Ep. 42
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 episode...
Jun 26, 2024•24 min•Season 6Ep. 40
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, creat...
Jun 24, 2024•39 min•Season 6Ep. 39
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 episode...
Jun 19, 2024•23 min•Season 6Ep. 38
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 ar...
Jun 17, 2024•39 min•Season 6Ep. 38
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 episode ...
Jun 12, 2024•22 min•Season 6Ep. 37
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 ki...
Jun 10, 2024•53 min•Season 6Ep. 36
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 episo...
Jun 05, 2024•37 min•Season 6Ep. 36
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 pap...
Jun 03, 2024•59 min•Season 6Ep. 35
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 epis...
May 29, 2024•30 min•Season 6Ep. 34
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 also s...
May 27, 2024•52 min•Season 5Ep. 33
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 episode ...
May 22, 2024•24 min•Season 6Ep. 33
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 relatabl...
May 20, 2024•48 min•Season 6Ep. 32
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 the...
May 15, 2024•46 min•Season 6Ep. 31
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 pro...
May 13, 2024•36 min•Season 6Ep. 30
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 here ...
May 08, 2024•22 min•Season 6Ep. 32
