The Enneagram as a Path to Wholeness: A conversation with Michelle Joy

Send us Fan MailIn this episode of Showing Up Whole, we explore the Enneagram as a powerful tool for self-awareness with Family Therapist and certified Enneagram Teacher, Michelle Joy.If you have ever felt stuck in the same emotional reactions, communication patterns, or inner stories, this conversation offers a compassionate way to understand why, without blame or self-judgment.The Enneagram is often misunderstood as just another personality test. In this episode, we unpack why it is actually a living map of growth. Rather than labeling behavior, the Enneagram reveals the deeper motivations beneath our reactions, showing how we learned to seek safety, love, and belonging, and how those strategies can quietly keep us stuck.You will hear how each Enneagram type carries a “human lens” through which the world is filtered, and why mistaking that lens for absolute truth can limit growth, connection, and inner peace. We discuss how awareness of your type creates space between stimulus and response, allowing you to choose differently rather than react automatically.This episode is for anyone who wants to understand themselves more honestly, relate with greater compassion, and move from survival patterns into wholeness.Michelle Joy, LMFT, is a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, certified Enneagram Teacher, and founder/host of The Annual Enneagram Summit for the Helping Profession. She is the creator of The Developmental Enneagram for Couples®, a unique approach that combines the Enneagram with the transformative component of differentiation.  Michelle also leads workshops for couples and professional trainings for coaches and therapists at CouplesAndTheEnneagram.com. She is the author of her forthcoming book The Developmental Enneagram for Couples®, to be released in spring 2026.You can find her work at CouplesAndTheEnneagram.comOr follow her on Linkedin Instagram FacebookLet this New Year begin with a deep sense of alignment and freedom from the year before. Check out Christina's workshop Create An Intentional New Year on her website.Christina Fletcher is a Spiritual Alignment coach, energy worker, author, speaker and host of the podcast Showing Up Whole.She specialises in practical spirituality and integrating inner work with outer living, so you can get self development off of the hobby shelf and integrated as a powerful fuel to your life. Through mindset, spiritual connection, intuitive guidance, manifestation, and mindfulness techniques Christina helps her clients overcome overwhelm and shame to find a place of flow, ease, and deep heart-centered connection.Christina has been a spiritual alignment coach, healer and spiritually aware parent coach for 11 years and trained in Therapeutic Touch 12 years ago.  She is also a meditation teacher and speaker. For more information please visit her website www.spirituallyawareliving.com Want to uncover where you need the most energy alignment? Take her new Energy Alignment Quiz to identify which of your energetic worlds (mind, body, heart or spirit) needs aligning the most! Or Follow her on her social media accounts:FacebookInstagramorLinkedin...