Did you know that anyone--addicts or non-addicts--can benefit from working the Twelve Steps and find the freedom, joy, and intimacy with God that their hearts long for?

We all suffer from a sense of spiritual homelessness--a feeling that we're not fully at home in the world. To cope with our painful feelings and life traumas, we search for quick fixes that eventually become habitual, self-destructive behaviors that ultimately create more problems than they solve.

As a person in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction, Ian Cron is no stranger to these destructive habits. It wasn't until he embraced the Twelve Steps that he found true freedom. He knows from personal experience that Twelve Step recovery is more than just a life-saving strategy for guiding substance users into sobriety. Everybody is addicted to something to numb the discomfort of living in a messed-up world, he says, but the good news is that if you committedly work the steps, you will eventually have a vital spiritual awakening that will give you an entirely new and radically beautiful orientation toward the life God has for you.

If you long for sustainable healing and joy amid life's messiness, The Fix invites you to:

• Journey step-by-step through a spiritual curriculum that has helped millions overcome trauma, pain, and brokenness for over eight decades
• Understand how the Twelve Steps can be a transformative tool not only for people with chemical or behavioral addictions but for anyone who wants to move beyond self-help to a spiritual awakening
• Catch yourself in the act of self-sabotaging behaviors and understand how each day is a new opportunity to trade in self-willed reformation for grace-powered transformation

My original subtitle for this book--Twelve Steps to Unscrewing Your Screwed-Up Life--was a little over the top, Ian comments. But anyone who has ever fallen for a quick fix (like drugs, alcohol, porn, overeating, work, religion, people-pleasing, and more) knows firsthand how our self-prescribed treatment plans derail us. They might not be as visible as empty bottles stashed inside a desk drawer, but they are just as life-complicating and soul-crushing.

With his characteristic wit and transparent self-disclosure, Ian guides us in learning how to work each of the Twelve Steps so we will finally be given a new pair of glasses through which we will be able to see ourselves, others, and the world in a startlingly new way--and ultimately take hold of the freedom God has been waiting to give us all along.

The Book That Started a Million Enneagram Journeys!

What you don't know about yourself can hurt you and your relationships--and even keep you in the shallows with God. Do you want help figuring out who you are and why you're stuck in the same ruts?

The Enneagram is an ancient personality typing system with an uncanny accuracy in describing how human beings are wired, both positively and negatively. In The Road Back to You Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile forge a unique approach--a practical, comprehensive way of accessing Enneagram wisdom and exploring its connections with Christian spirituality for a deeper knowledge of ourselves, compassion for others, and love for God.

Witty and filled with stories, this book allows you to peek inside each of the nine Enneagram types, keeping you turning the pages long after you have read the chapter about your own number. Not only will you learn more about yourself, but you will also start to see the world through other people's eyes, understanding how and why people think, feel, and act the way they do.

To guide your first steps into your self-awareness journey, The Road Back to You offers:

• Introductions to each Enneagram type
• Questions to help you identify your number
• Changes you can make today to pursue deeper self-awareness
• Digestible windows into the other types, helping you see others with more compassion and empathy

The wisdom of the Enneagram can help take you further along into who you really are--leading you into places of spiritual discovery you would never have found on your own, and paving the way to the wiser, more compassionate person you want to become.

Want to go deeper into the Enneagram? This content-rich companion to The Road Back to You features helpful tools for growth, new material about triads, five study sessions, and additional personal reflections about each type. Whether you are on your own or in a group, this guide will help you to grow in knowledge of yourself, compassion for others, and love for God.

Tired of falling back into the same old addictive patterns? The Twelve Steps (yes, those Twelve Steps) can move you forward. As Ian Cron describes in his groundbreaking book, they are nothing short of an inspired spiritual curriculum for anyone who wants to move beyond self-help into soul-deep transformation. This essential companion workbook will equip you for taking this journey and finding the support you need to sustain it.

Learn how to live more wholly in a broken world and heal from old wounds instead of hiding behind addictions to numb and distract yourself. This accessible and substantive guide for your personal work will meet you where you are, help you to move forward, and invite you into connecting with others. Start today to discover how you replace self-defeating patterns with healthy spiritual practices in every area of your life--as Ian says, it's the only 'fix' worth reaching for.

This workbook is designed for use with The Fix by Ian Morgan Cron. Each of the lessons in this workbook will guide you through the Twelve Steps with an easy-to-follow format:

• A reading about one of the Steps
• Reflection questions
• Next Steps actionable items

A touching memoir of life with an alcoholic father who secretly works with the CIA, a dark pilgrimage through the valley of depression and addiction, and finding a faith to redeem and a strength to forgive.

This is a record of my life as I remember it--but more importantly, as I felt it.

At the age of sixteen, Ian Morgan Cron was told by his mother that his father, a motion picture executive, worked with the CIA in Europe. This astonishing revelation, coupled with his father's dark struggle with alcoholism, upended the world of a teenager struggling to become a man.

Born into a family of privilege and power, Ian's life is populated with colorful people and stories as his father takes the family on a wild roller-coaster ride through wealth and poverty and back again.

Decades later, as he faced his own personal demons, Ian realized that the only way to find peace was to voyage back through a painful childhood marked by extremes--privilege and poverty, violence and tenderness, truth and deceit--that he'd spent years trying to escape.

• A fast-paced, unique memoir about the power of forgiveness from the bestselling author of The Road Back to You
• Details his father's struggle with alcohol and Cron's own journey from addiction to twenty-three years of sobriety
• Encouragement to see God's redemptive power through life's struggles

In this surprisingly funny and forgiving memoir, Ian reminds us that no matter how different the pieces may be, in the end we are all cut from the same cloth, stitched by faith into an exquisite quilt of grace.

What happens when the pastor of a mega church loses his faith? Discover one man's life-changing journey to resolve his crisis of faith in Italy by retracing the footsteps of Francis of Assisi, a saint whose simple way of loving Jesus changed the history of the world.

Pastor Chase Falson lost his faith in God, the Bible, evangelical Christianity, and his super-sized megachurch. When he fell apart, the church elders told him to go away--as far away as possible. Broken, Chase crossed the Atlantic to Italy to visit his uncle, a Franciscan priest. There, he was introduced to the revolutionary teachings of Saint Francis of Assisi and found an old, but new way of following Jesus that heals and inspires.

Chase Falson's spiritual discontent mirrors the feelings of a growing number of Christians who walk out of church asking, Is this all there is? This book is perfect for believers who are:

• Weary of celebrity pastors and empty calorie teaching
• Disappointed by worship services where the emphasis is more on Lights, Camera, Action than on Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
• Tired of the deepest questions of life remaining unaddressed and unanswered
• Remain hopeful and seek to strengthen their faith

Hidden in the past lies the future of the church. Explore the life of a saint who 800 years ago breathed new life into disillusioned Christians and a Church on the brink of collapse. Chasing Francis is a hopeful and moving story with profound implications for those who yearn for a more vital relationship with God and the world.

Insightful, humorous, practical, this book will not only help you understand the story you're telling yourself but also reveal a new story that allows you to love better.-- Russell Moore, director of the Public Theology Project at Christianity Today

In this powerful, transformational guide, the author of the bestselling book The Road Back to You breaks new ground with the Enneagram--the ancient personality typing system--by revealing how each of us inhabits a broken story that runs counter to the Larger Story of divine grace and who we were created to be.

Drawing on his training as a psychotherapist and his own personal experience, Ian Cron explains how you can:

rewrite the self-sabotaging stories you tell yourself about who you are, free yourself from the tyranny of unconscious childhood messages, andovercome the self-defeating patterns of behavior that prevent you from becoming your authentic self.

With this powerful tool, Cron shows us how each type can shed their broken stories and harness their unique power within to become who we are truly meant to be, shedding the unhappiness we accumulate by trying to live out of the wrong story. Filled with examples from people whose lives have been transformed for the better, Cron maps out a guide for using Enneagram wisdom to reauthor your life and experience deep inner transformation, healing, and happiness.

Rewrite the story of you and find the freedom in becoming your true self!

La ignorancia es una bendición, excepto para el autoconocimiento. Lo que no conoces acerca de ti puede dañarte... a ti, a tus relaciones y a la forma en que vives la vida. Además, puede mantenerte en un plano superficial con Dios. Quieres aprender a descubrir quién eres y por qué tropiezas una y otra vez con los mismos patrones autodestructivos?
Encuentra la respuesta en el antiguo sistema de tipos de personalidad llamado Eneagrama, cuya asombrosa precisión para describir las personalidades que poseemos los seres humanos --tanto de forma positiva como negativa-- ha elevado su popularidad en los últimos años. Aunque otros autores han explorado sus conexiones con la espiritualidad cristiana, no hubo anteriormente un enfoque tan práctico, exhaustivo y accesible como el que Ian Morgan y Suzanne Stabile han logrado.
Al comenzar a efectuar los cambios que puedes empezar a hacer hoy mismo, la sabiduría del Eneagrama te ayudará a encaminarte hacia la senda que te conducirá a la mejor y más genuina versión de ti mismo.
Si quieres comprenderte a ti mismo y comprender a aquellos que te rodean, este libro profundo y brillante es un excelente punto de partida. --W. m. Paul Young, autor de La cabaña

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

In The Road Back to You Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile forge a unique approach―a practical, comprehensive way of accessing Enneagram wisdom and exploring its connections with Christian spirituality for a deeper knowledge of God and of ourselves.

Funny and filled with stories, this book allows you to understand more about each of the Enneagram types, keeping you turning the pages long after you have read the chapter about yourself. Beginning with changes you can start making today, the wisdom of the Enneagram can help you get on the road that will take you further along into who you really are leading you into places of spiritual discovery you would never have found on your own, and paving the way to the wiser, more compassionate person you want to become.

Tap into the power of the Enneagram with this essential companion workbook filled with exercises, reflection prompts, and guided questions that can help you unleash your true inner power and transform your life.

Ian Morgan Cron, the bestselling author of The Road Back to You and The Story of You and master of the Enneagram, provides the tools you need to recognize and break free from the damaging, outdated stories you've been living and discover a more hopeful story that is better aligned with who you really are. In six steps Cron teaches you how to SOAR:

See your origin storyOwn your shadow sideAwaken to your present momentRewrite your new story

Combining thought-provoking cues, dynamic questions, and motivating exercises with pages to record your reflections, The Story of You Workbook is the key to spiritual growth that will help you realize your true self.

Qué sucede cuando el pastor de una mega Iglesia pierde la fe?

El pastor Chase Falson ha perdido su fe en Dios, en La Biblia, el cristianismo evangélico y en su mega Iglesia de gran tamaño. Cuando se derrumba interiormente, los ancianos de la Iglesia le dicen que se vaya lo más lejos posible. en un viaje a Italia que le cambiará la vida, donde, con un curioso grupo de frailes franciscanos, lucha por resolver su crisis de fe siguiendo los pasos de Francisco de Asís, un santo cuya forma sencilla de amar a Jesús cambió la historia del mundo. Chase Falson siguió a Jesús, el que sana e inspira. La historia de este peregrino refleja los sentimientos de un número creciente de cristianos que están cansados de los pastores famosos, más enfocados en la imagen personal que en la adoración a Cristo, mientras que las preguntas más profundas de la vida siguen sin abordarse de manera significativa.

Chasing Francis

What happens when the pastor of a mega church loses his faith?

Pastor Chase Falson has lost his faith in God, the Bible, evangelical Christianity, and his super-sized megachurch. When he falls apart, the church elders tell him to go away: as far away as possible. Join Chase on his life-changing journey to Italy where, with a curious group of Franciscan friars, he struggles to resolve his crisis of faith by retracing the footsteps of Francis of Assisi, a saint whose simple way of loving Jesus changed the history of the world. Read this riveting story and then begin your own life-changing journey through the pilgrim's guide included in this powerful novel.