title: The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
author:  Ian Morgan Cron 
description: "Armed with delightful but incisive wit, Cron and Stabile help us explore our inner life by making the mystery of the Enneagram accessible. If you want to better understand yourself and those in the world around you, this insightful and brilliant book is a perfect place to begin."--Wm. Paul Young, author of The Shack<br /><br />"Ian Morgan Cron, partnering with Suzanne Stabile, has gifted us with another timely and brilliantly written book. We've long needed a fresh, spiritually grounded approach to helping people grow in self-knowledge and compassion. This is a winsome and thoughtful primer!"--Mark Batterson, lead pastor, National Community Church, New York Times bestselling author of The Circle Maker<br /><br />"The Enneagram has been a powerful tool for spiritual transformation in my life, so much so that I became a certified trainer. I've read many of the books available on the subject. This is a wonderfully thorough examination of the Enneagram and the best news is that it will speak to both newcomers and Enneagram veterans."--Anita Lustrea, Faith Conversations Podcast, author, speaker, media coach<br /><br />"I'm so thrilled that this book exists. The Enneagram has absolutely changed my understanding of how to love the people in my life, deepened the quality of my marriage, and given me a vision for the person God designed me to be. This book makes the Enneagram easy to understand, with helpful stories, humor, warmth, and clear language. I'll need a case, at least."--Shauna Niequist, author of Present Over Perfect<br /><br />"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."--Foreword Reviews, Fall 2016<br /><br />"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"
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  THE  
  
  
  ROAD  
  
  
  BACK  
  
  
  TO YOU
  
  
  
  
  
  AN ENNEAGRAM JOURNEY  
  
  
  TO SELF-DISCOVERY
  
  
  
  
  
  IAN MORGAN CRON  
  
  
  _and  
  _ SUZANNE STABILE
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
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  Grant, Lord, that I may know myself that I may know thee.
  
  
  
  
  
  Augustine
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  _Ian_
  
  
  
  
  
  To Anne, Cailey, Aidan, Maddie and Paul, with love
  
  
  
  
  
  And to Wendell and Ella, my beloved companions  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  _Suzanne_
  
  
  
  
  
  To Giuseppe, my love
  
  
  
  
  
  And to Joey, Jenny, Joel and BJ, our hope
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## Contents  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [1 A Curious Theory of Unknown Origin](part0005.html#_idTextAnchor004)
  
  
  
  
  
  [2 Finding Your Type](part0006.html#_idTextAnchor006)
  
  
  
  
  
  [3 _Type Eight:_ The Challenger](part0007_split_001.html#_idTextAnchor008)
  
  
  
  
  
  _Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way._
  
  
  
  
  
  General George S. Patton Jr.
  
  
  
  
  
  [4 _Type Nine:_ The Peacemaker](part