Healthy Feelings, Thriving Faith: Growing Emotionally and Spiritually Through the Enneagram - Paperback

by Bill Gaultiere (Author), Kristi Gaultiere (Author)

If you've ever taken a personality test, you may have found yourself in enthusiastic agreement about the positive aspects of your personality, while the less desirable traits listed may have made you a bit defensive. Maybe you read up on a different personality type and wished you had more of those qualities. But the truth is, every type can get stuck in unhealthy emotional and spiritual patterns. And no matter what your personality, you have the potential to grow into the healthiest and most loving version of yourself.

In Healthy Feelings, Thriving Faith, Drs. Bill and Kristi Gaultiere use the Enneagram to lead you through a journey of discovery, showing you how God can transform unhealthy patterns of anger, shame, anxiety, and sadness into freedom, joy, peace, and love. Through eye-opening insights, engaging stories, and simple soul care practices and spiritual disciplines, this book offers an avenue to renewed hope and personal growth you may not have thought possible.

If you want to go from knowing your personality type to growing in wholeness, empathy, and faith, let the Gaultieres be your guide.

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No matter what your personality type, you can grow to be more healthy and loving

Every personality type can get stuck in unhealthy emotional and spiritual patterns. In Healthy Feelings, Thriving Faith, Drs. Bill and Kristi Gaultiere use the Enneagram to lead you through a journey of discovery, showing you how God can transform anger, shame, anxiety, and sadness into freedom, joy, peace, and love. Through eye-opening insights, engaging stories, and simple soul care practices and spiritual disciplines, this book offers an avenue to renewed hope and personal growth you may not have thought possible.

If you want to go from knowing your personality type to growing in wholeness, empathy, and faith, let the Gaultieres guide you.


"Bill and Kristi Gaultiere use a Christ-centered Enneagram to help you understand that your emotions are a gift from God, given to draw you into richer relationships with others, yourself, and your Creator. This book has become an essential tool for us personally and professionally."
Beth and Jeff McCord, Your Enneagram Coach

"If, like me, you've ever found yourself having certain emotions hijack a moment or sabotage a relationship, then Healthy Feelings, Thriving Faith is for you. Bill and Kristi Gaultiere beautifully help you better understand your emotions, the energy and motion connected to them, your unique personality, and what the way of Jesus has to offer you. This is a must-read!"
Steve Carter, pastor and author of The Thing Beneath the Thing

Author Biography

Bill and Kristi Gaultiere have been counseling and ministering to people for thirty years and are the authors of Journey of the Soul. Bill is a psychologist who has served in private practice, co-led a New Life psychiatric day hospital, and pastored churches. Kristi is a marriage and family therapist who has also served in private practice and church ministry. Together they are the founders of Soul Shepherding, a nonprofit ministry to help believers discover their next steps for growing in intimacy with Jesus, emotional health, and loving relationships. Bill and Kristi live in California.