Healthy Feelings, Thriving Faith
Growing Emotionally and Spiritually through the Enneagram
About
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
Endorsements
"When King David reflected on humanity, he concluded that people are 'fearfully and wonderfully made.' In that same spirit, 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. We have been studying the Enneagram for two decades, and Healthy Feelings, Thriving Faith is unlike any other Enneagram book we have read because it offers unique insights into the emotional life of each of the nine types. 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
"In this truly unique resource, Bill and Kristi combine decades of biblical study, formal education, and clinical practice to give readers the most impactful Enneagram-related resource I have read to date. With refreshing candor and clarity they take readers beyond good information and fun stories to practical ways of seeing ourselves and others through new eyes. Their unique insights on our core emotions, including anger, shame, anxiety, sadness, and empathy, are immediately applicable. Healthy Feelings, Thriving Faith truly is one of those books that you'll want to read more than once and recommend to your friends."
Gary J. Oliver, ThM, PhD, psychologist and author of Mad About Us
"Many Christ followers misunderstand or are afraid of their 'negative' emotions. Bill and Kristi show us how all our emotions are valuable gifts from God by eloquently intertwining emotional intelligence (EQ) tips, the dynamic Enneagram personality inventory, and the Bible. They make complex spiritual and psychological principles understandable and easily applicable both for your personal transformation and so you can be a healing catalyst for someone else's growth. I enjoyed the compassionate, transformational therapy and mentoring session Drs. Bill and Kristi blessed me with for my Type 8 struggles."
Karl Benzio, MD, board-certified psychiatrist, founder and medical director of Honey Lake Clinic, and medical director of the American Association of Christian Counselors
"Healthy Feelings, Thriving Faith will help you get unstuck from unhealthy personality patterns so you can truly blossom in God's grace and best purposes for your life. I'm especially excited about this book as a tool for life coaching, spiritual direction, and discipleship to Jesus. Bill and Kristi make the Enneagram so personal, engaging, and powerfully transformational for Christians. They weave together Scripture, psychology, and practical soul care guidance to help you make the changes that will positively impact your personal and professional relationships."
Georgia Shaffer, professional certified coach, licensed psychologist, and author of Coaching Coach
"Healthy Feelings, Thriving Faith is a must-read for those who want to grow in self-awareness as well as for those who want to hold space for others on the journey of healing. This book is packed full of information and practical tools to help activate the new emotional and spiritual awareness for real life change."
Jackie Brewster, certified Enneagram coach
"Engaging with others and going on an inward journey are both fundamental to the health of our personalities. Through an in-depth look at each of the nine Enneagram types and their emotions, Bill and Kristi have given us an opportunity to dive deeper into the exploration of our souls. In these pages we saw not only ourselves but every relationship we have. This is a must-read in your spiritual formation journey."
Vince and Allison Hungate, founders of Intentional Marriage
"Healthy Feelings, Thriving Faith brings together Enneagram wisdom, sound psychological insight, and a deeply biblical framework to lead us in spiritual direction and soul care. It has given us many moments of delight and personal insight, especially in the teaching and practical exercises to help with anger, shame, anxiety, and sadness. The stories of different people were so relatable and helpful. It made us feel like we were sitting in Bill and Kristi's office receiving spiritual direction and soul care."
John and Evelyn Lo, lead pastors of Epicentre Church
"Emotions are at the heart of our trials and our transformation into the image of Christ. In Healthy Feelings, Thriving Faith, Bill and Kristi Gaultiere adeptly use the Enneagram as a tool to help readers understand their emotional life so they can grow in love for God and others. By weaving together personal stories, psychological theory, and biblical truths, they guide readers on a journey of inner healing and deep growth. This book will help readers better understand themselves and the people in their life, fostering healthier relationships. You will come away with many aha moments. I highly recommend it!"
Todd W. Hall, PhD, author of The Connected Life and professor of psychology at Rosemead School of Psychology
"By inspiration of the Holy Spirit and through their personal journey, Bill and Kristi have engineered a tool to aid us in becoming both spiritually and emotionally healthy. Within the pages of this well-thought-out work, you will learn how to tether feelings with faith and discover God's presence in your personality. I can't wait to get this book to our churches and other pastor friends!"
Bishop Sheridan McDaniel, pastor and spiritual director
"Bill and Kristi have given us a tremendous resource with which to navigate our manifold emotions. In Healthy Feelings, Thriving Faith, they help us own that the human experience is fraught with circumstances that our personalities tend to suppress. We must each learn--in our own way--to receive life as it comes and permit ourselves the grace and time to process if we are to progress. Read this book and follow these wise guides into the depths of life."
AJ Sherrill, Anglican priest and author of Enneagram for Spiritual Formation
The Authors
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Briana Gaultiere Bill Gaultiere
Bill and Kristi Gaultiere have been counseling and ministering to people for 30 years and are the authors of Journey of the Soul and Healthy Feelings, Thriving Faith. Bill is a psychologist and Kristi is a marriage and family therapist. They are...
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Katrina Patterson Kristi Gaultiere
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...
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