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844 episodes
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Christa Hardin, MAExplicit
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Date created
2019/12/29
Latest episode
2026/10/21
Average duration
38 min.
Release period
3 days
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The Enneagram and Marriage Podcast, hosted by Christa Hardin, MA, is rooted in two decades of experience counseling and coaching couples. On top of her expert marriage advice, Christa uses the Enneagram to add another layer of understanding in how we work as individuals and gives us deeper insight into how we connect and shine together in marriage and relationships across the collective community.
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An E + M Mini: The Three Instincts and Your Faith
2026/10/21
In this mini episode, Christa walks through the three instincts as three distinct invitations into a more vibrant, grounded faith. The self-preservation instinct calls us to truly rest in Christ, to replenish and receive rather than strive. The sexual instinct, our spark of creative aliveness, invites us to activate our faith and let it make life feel vivid and awake again. The social instinct draws us toward helping and serving others, reminding us there are many ways to give and belong. Each instinct challenges us differently as we reach beyond ourselves, while also giving us permission to rest, connect, and be renewed. This conversation will help you notice where you may need to shift so you can live from your healthiest place. Listen here! Watch on YouTube!
Get your free ticket to the Spiritual Formation Summit here!
Find more about your type, the pod, freebies, and SO much more at our website right here! www.EnneagramandMarriage.com
Take the E + M Quiz at www.QuizforCouples.com
Love what you're learning on E + M?
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Get Christa's Best-Selling Book, The Enneagram in Marriage, here! https://a.co/d/df8SxVx
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Subscriber Series: The Three Instincts and Faith in Marriage
2026/10/21
In this Subscriber Series episode, Christa takes the three instincts into marriage and explores how each one shapes the way a couple grows in faith together. The self-preservation instinct invites both partners to rest in Christ and to protect the restorative rhythms that keep a home steady. The sexual instinct brings spark and creative aliveness, helping couples activate a shared faith that feels fresh rather than routine. The social instinct turns the marriage outward toward serving others, where giving together can become one of the richest parts of your story. Because spouses often lead with different instincts, understanding these patterns can soften frustration and open new ways to replenish one another. Listen here!
Burnout in Ministry Marriages and the Way Back w/Monika Kirkland (Type 1/4)
2026/10/19
This week, Christa welcomes Monika Kirkland (Type 1/4)m a Christian writer, host of the Inner Revival podcast, and a wife and mom of four. She and her husband, a worship pastor and her high school sweetheart, have served in ministry together for over a decade, her new book, Ever With You: Becoming Fully Awake to the God Who Is Near, was born out of a season when she was running on caffeine and cortisol until anxiety-induced vertigo stopped her in her tracks.
Christa and Monika talk about what burnout does to a marriage when both partners are pouring out and neither is being filled, and how Monika found the rest she was desperate for - in intimacy with God. They also explore why stillness can feel so uncomfortable when the first voice we hear is the inner critic, and how each Enneagram type tends to look for rest in its own familiar substitutes.
If you’re feeling depleted in your marriage, your ministry, or your walk with God, this episode is a gentle invitation back. Listen here! https://youtu.be/mNBach9QOQshttps://youtu.be/mNBach9QOQs!
Connect with Monika at monikakirkland.com and on Instagram @monikakirkland, and find her book, Ever With You, wherever books are sold or here! https://a.co/d/0ewfpScw
Get your free ticket to the Spiritual Formation Summit here!
Find more about your type, the pod, freebies, and SO much more at our website right here! www.EnneagramandMarriage.com
Take the E + M Quiz at www.QuizforCouples.com
Love what you're learning on E + M?
Make sure you leave us a podcast review so others can find us, too here!
Get Christa's Best-Selling Book, The Enneagram in Marriage, here! https://a.co/d/df8SxVx
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Breath Prayers for Every Enneagram Type
2026/10/14
Each of us struggles with various deep concerns, and in today’s mini episode, Christa walks us type by type through various breath prayers, one for each type. Take some time to pause, breathe, and join us in a collective prayer time as we place a hand on our hearts, release stress, and embrace the light and love of God. Calling on Matthew 11:28, we are all reminded that rest and refreshment, and being carried, not just carrying, is part of the blessed journey. Watch on YouTube!
Find more about your type, the pod, freebies, and SO much more at our website right here! www.EnneagramandMarriage.com
Take the E + M Quiz at www.QuizforCouples.com
Love what you're learning on E + M?
Make sure you leave us a podcast review so others can find us, too here!
Get Christa's Best-Selling Book, The Enneagram in Marriage, here! https://a.co/d/df8SxVx
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Free Subscriber Series: Spiritually Resetting for a Healthy, Vibrant Faith
2026/10/14
Although spiritual loves are collectively shared, in our individual walk with God we each have matters, too. Today, Christa breaks down several areas for you to assess your spiritual journey: service, collective church time, worship, and when it’s time to take a break to heal, rest, or recover. Take some time to sit with this episode so you can grow foundationally today!!
Find more about your type, the pod, freebies, and SO much more at our website right here! www.EnneagramandMarriage.com
Take the E + M Quiz at www.QuizforCouples.com
Love what you're learning on E + M?
Make sure you leave us a podcast review so others can find us, too here!
Get Christa's Best-Selling Book, The Enneagram in Marriage, here! https://a.co/d/df8SxVx
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Our Daily Breath: Praying with Your Body, Heart, and Mind with Kayla Craig, 7
2026/10/12
This week ,Christa sits down with Kayla Craig, a former journalist, bestselling author, and spiritual director whose work blends contemplative faith with tenderness for the world God loves. Kayla shares the story of her mistyping, why wings and seasons of life can blur what drives us, and how her own growth has shaped the way she prays.
Together they explore the practice at the heart of her new book, Our Daily Breath Devotional, which offers daily wisdom to borrow, breath prayers to exhale, and space to connect with the One who gives each breath. You’ll hear why placing a hand on your heart matters, how pairing Scripture with the inhale and exhale settles body, heart, and mind together, and how God meets us when we are brokenhearted and out of words. Watch on YouTube!
Get the book here! https://a.co/d/0ffkG7Un
Take the quiz here! KaylaCraig.com/quiz
Find more about your type, the pod, freebies, and SO much more at our website right here! www.EnneagramandMarriage.com
Take the E + M Quiz at www.QuizforCouples.com
Love what you're learning on E + M?
Make sure you leave us a podcast review so others can find us, too here!
Get Christa's Best-Selling Book, The Enneagram in Marriage, here! https://a.co/d/df8SxVx
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Subscriber Series: Bearing Witness to One Another's Deepest Desires
2026/10/07
In this Subscriber Series episode, Christa invites listeners to examine ways to bear witness to one another's needs across the self-preserving, sexual, and social domains of life that inevitably come up for every family and couple. You'll learn to recognize and honor the need for rest, comfort, and stability, make room for the spark and creative aliveness that keep a relationship vibrant, and support one another's longing for contribution and belonging in community. Christa also offers practical ways to respond with care when these different needs collide at home. Make sure you take these tried and true tips into your family story today! Listen here!
Bearing Witness at Home: Learning How to Encourage Each Other
2026/10/07
Encouragement is essential as you walk together through the emotional, spiritual, and physical ups and downs of your family story. Christa invites you on a journey of spiritual and psychological safety and connection-building as you learn to encourage and bear witness to one another's stories. Together you'll explore what it means to stay present to someone's story without rushing to fix or steer it, and how to remain close while honoring that each person's formation belongs to them. Christa also helps you understand and support every Enneagram type on their spiritual formation journey as a person who is both connected to you and differentiated from you. Don't miss this episode! Listen here! Watch on YouTube, and for Tyler Zach's Spiritual Formation Summit, click here!
The Type·ish Spiritual Formation Summit begins on Oct 20, 2026 and runs through Oct 23, 2026! If you’ve been meaning to register, there’s still time to get your free ticket.
Find more about your type, the pod, freebies, and SO much more at our website right here! www.EnneagramandMarriage.com
Take the E + M Quiz at www.QuizforCouples.com
Love what you're learning on E + M?
Make sure you leave us a podcast review so others can find us, too here!
Get Christa's Best-Selling Book, The Enneagram in Marriage, here! https://a.co/d/df8SxVx
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Healing the Sexual Shame Stories Inside of Us w/Dr. Dan Allender, 8
2026/10/05
Many individuals and spouses have experienced or been exposed to materials, whether explicitly sexual or suggestive, that have caused wounds in our marriages. Today we bring an important topic Christians and non-believers alike may struggle with: shame and what to do with it, when it rears its ugly head in a marriage. Whether you're more likely to fight, freeze, or fawn, this episode helps you to do the slower, worthy storywork to find out where you and your spouse have been, and as the kindness of God (Romans 2:4) gets revealed under the scars, where you also may go as you heal. Listen here! Watch on YouTube!
Here are the links for the Recovery Weeks over at The Allender Center so you can make a plan to take some time healing (there are men's weeks and women's weeks)
https://theallendercenter.org/offerings/workshops/
Here is the free sexual abuse audio series Dr. Dan Allender and those at the Allender Center walk you through:
https://online.theallendercenter.org/order?ct=a30acd8a-824b-4db2-b216-70d6b015b31d
Here is Dan's Healing the Wounded Heart virtual course: https://online.theallendercenter.org/courses/healing-the-wounded-heart
Find more about your type, the pod, freebies, and SO much more at our website right here! www.EnneagramandMarriage.com
Take the E + M Quiz at www.QuizforCouples.com
Love what you're learning on E + M?
Make sure you leave us a podcast review so others can find us, too here!
Get Christa's Best-Selling Book, The Enneagram in Marriage, here! https://a.co/d/df8SxVx
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What Grows in the Dark: Spiritual Shadows and the Enneagram with Amy Wicks, 7
2026/09/30
Just as roots do their most important work underground, much of our spiritual growth happens in the places we'd rather not look, at the understory of our Enneagram type. Together we explore the shadows we hide from ourselves and how God meets us there with grace instead of shame. Today, Christa welcomes author Amy Wicks to open the pages of her new book, Wholehearted Enneagram: From Type to Transformation, where each Enneagram type is met with a tree, a story, and a wholehearted invitation to thrive. Stay until the end, because Amy is sharing a sample chapter with listeners, too, with her beautiful vocal reader at the end of the episode as a bonus. It's a perfect conversation for spooky season, and our fall contest is part of the fun, so listen closely right here! Watch on YouTube!
Win a copy of Amy's book, Christa's book, and a Supper Sleuths Mystery Dinner Game - Winner Chosen Sun Oct 4, 3 Winners Announced Oct 5th!
Send your vote in to [email protected]
Spooky Season Clues:
I sit in the heart center, yet I'm the type most likely to lose track of what I actually feel.
I can read a room in three seconds and become whoever it needs.
Somewhere along the way I learned I was loved for what I did, so I kept doing.
Visit Amy here at her website! www.wholeheartedenneagram.com
Get Amy's book here! https://amzn.in/d/01Pt8YnK (tell her you pre-ordered, too!)
Enter the contest by sending your contest entry here!
Find more about your type, the pod, freebies, and SO much more at our website right here! www.EnneagramandMarriage.com
Take the E + M Quiz at www.QuizforCouples.com
Love what you're learning on E + M?
Make sure you leave us a podcast review so others can find us, too here!
Get Christa's Best-Selling Book, The Enneagram in Marriage, here! https://a.co/d/df8SxVx
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Subscriber Series: Type Shadows: Excuses Every Type Makes
2026/09/30
Every Enneagram type has a go-to excuse that sounds reasonable but keeps its shadow hidden. On this deeper dive episode, Christa names the excuse for each type, what it protects, how it plays out in marriage, and a simple practice for bringing those hidden parts into the light. Listen for this week's contest clue at the end, too!
I Never Knew: Family Secrets and Shadows w/Phyllis Robertson Thomas, Type 5
2026/09/28
Past family shadows affect us in ways we may never know, and today we talk to Phyllis Robertson as she walks us through the story of when you have surprises in your family story. Today we talk about how Phyllis (now married 32 years, 5-4 pairing) found out at age forty-four, and a past that included significant trauma, that Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson was her father. Her life changed dramatically as the changes unfolded, and she began to deal with old trauma on new levels, which led to career change as well, becoming a trauma therapist. Today we invite listeners to deal with their own painful stories with good practices, the pacing of a logical type Five so negative feelings don't take over, and yet with redemption and hope, even in your most broken and difficult places. Her new book, I Never Knew: Finding Healing and Renewal after Trauma, is ready for order as well! Watch on YouTube!
Find Phyllis on her website: https://phyllisrobertsonthomas.com/
Get Phyllis' book also: https://www.ineverknewbook.com/
Find Phyllis on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/phyllisduckdaughter/?hl=en
You can find her on the Duck Dynasty Pod here below:
https://youtu.be/9n4Ab6mL9W0?si=YD9337YYIr5_AC6n
https://youtu.be/kA4BCl5mhbY?si=MJgoQOfNB0EXjkwk
Find more about your type, the pod, freebies, and SO much more at our website right here! www.EnneagramandMarriage.com
Take the E + M Quiz at www.QuizforCouples.com
Love what you're learning on E + M?
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Get Christa's Best-Selling Book, The Enneagram in Marriage, here! https://a.co/d/df8SxVx
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Attachment Healing for Every Enneagram Type
2026/09/23
Friends, no where in the world is there a perfect spouse who is one hundred percent of the time securely attached, yet we all know secure attachment is what we ALL truly want. In this clarifying and practical episode, Christa walks you through every Enneagram type and ways they can move from the shadows of anxious and avoidant attachment to finding deeper security. It takes a bit of healthy risk, realistic expecations, and a bit of grit, but you'll be so happy you tuned in as you WILL find deeper and healthier connection for putting these tips into practice! Listen here! Watch on YouTube!
Find more about your type, the pod, freebies, and SO much more at our website right here! www.EnneagramandMarriage.com
Take the E + M Quiz at www.QuizforCouples.com
Love what you're learning on E + M?
Make sure you leave us a podcast review so others can find us, too here!
Get Christa's Best-Selling Book, The Enneagram in Marriage, here! https://a.co/d/df8SxVx
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Subscriber Series: The Shadows of Every Instinct
2026/09/23
Deeper diving friend, you’ve probably noticed when you’re overkill in any of the three desires or instincts, whether it be self-preservation, sexual, or social, and today Christa walks through shadows in all directions that can show up for each of these instincts in your marriage. You will be enlightened not only to find tips for growth and healing, but also to recognize where you need to let go of control of your spouse too. Take some time to settle, find balance, and truly bring your marriage to a much healthier level of attachment as you find safety and connection right here!
Brave Love, Great Sex - Healing Attachment Shadows in the Bedroom w/Laurie Watson, Ph.D., Type 2
2026/09/18
Most couples have deep desire for sensual and intimate love in the bedroom, and today we're looking at perhaps. the biggest shadow, your attachment shadows in the bedroom with best-selling author Dr. Laurie Watson, Ph.D, (2-9 pairing). We get to talk personality a bit here as Dr. Laurie learns about the Enneagram with us but the foremost (and fascinating) conversation here is about how to bring you safer connection, whether you're anxiously or avoidantly attached. We're also bringing you Laurie's brand new and #1 release book, Brave Love, Great Sex: Harnessing Attachment Theory for Passionate Relationships on attachment and your sex life here! https://a.co/d/0dGyNQ0g. You don't want to miss this fresh and brave conversation about true intimacy! Watch on YouTube!
Laurie's podcast, Brave Love, Great Sex is Here! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brave-love-great-sex-couples-therapy-podcast/id1083324677
Get Inside Your Sexy September Intimacy Vault Here!
Get inside the Enneagram and Marriage Coaching and Masterclass classroom here! https://www.enneagramandmarriage.com/the-e-m-coaching-masterclass Use the code COACH for $250 off - or - use a payment plan!!
Find Amy here at her website! www.simplywholehearted.com
Find more about your type, the pod, freebies, and SO much more at our website right here! www.EnneagramandMarriage.com
Take the E + M Quiz at www.QuizforCouples.com
Love what you're learning on E + M?
Make sure you leave us a podcast review so others can find us, too here!
Get Christa's Best-Selling Book, The Enneagram in Marriage, here! https://a.co/d/df8SxVx
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GirlofGod5 2026/05/06
Favorite podcast!!!
Christa goes so deep with such expertise (with a fun, lighthearted cadence!) into all things marriage and personalities! Each episode I learn more abo...
FuzzyWorld 2026/04/29
Fairly superficial and host is hard to listen to
Love Russ Hudson and listened to two episodes as he seemed to deem it serious enough to be interviewed on it, but the host seems to only have a somewh...
Lucy M.P 2025/04/23
Love this podcast!
You not only learn so much about the enneagram through this podcast, but you learn how to use your enneagram to support you through different real lif...
Lulu Gris 2024/06/04
Please mute while interviewing
To the dear of sweet host of this wonderful show, please consider muting yourself while your guest is speaking. The yeses and ooh and ahhs and mmms ar...
moralesgcg 2023/03/04
More like these!
I Just listened to the Jane Austen reference episode. I loved this one!! I would love if you did more like this with literature or pop culture enneagr...
SaltandLightCounseling 2022/06/13
Excellent Enneagram Resource
Christa and E+M - What a wonderful, informative and authentic space to learn more about the Enneagram and how it can be a tool to improve your marriag...
Jess with Transforming Us 2022/05/04
Later focused insight and super fun!
Christa and her team has done an incredible job sharing many years of experience in the area of enneagram and marriage. I have learned so much from h...
A2j948483 2022/04/22
Amazing!
Christa is a phenomenal host! You can tell how much passion she has for her podcast and it GLOWS through the microphone, along with just how much know...
fayglie 2022/03/16
Excellent encouragement and resources
Christa comes with humility and compassion to real topics. Her expertise shine through as she has fun, levity and practical advice for people and marr...
Rachel Mom of 5 2022/03/08
One of my favorite podcasts!
Christa is great, and I have learned so much about the Enneagram and so many different ways to strengthen my marriage of 22 years
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