Roxanne Howe-Murphy, EdD

Coming November 11, 2025

The Four Sacred Portals

A blue book from Roxanne Howe Murphy

Walk through the Four Sacred Portals

  • Discover a way of living rooted in steadiness, clarity, and self-kindness.
  • Simple, repeatable practices
  • Guidance for real-life challenges
  • A companion for lifelong growth

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Advance Praise for The Four Sacred Portals

This is a new and valuable approach to transformation work. The Four Portals are powerful and brilliant. I love this work. The portals show us that the more we are aware of what is going on at a deeper level, perhaps a higher level, the more effective our living is in terms of being able to negotiate life’s challenges. Living from this deeper place offers deeper fulfillment and deeper connection to all. The Four Sacred Portals is clearly written and offers great examples. I encourage you all to buy Roxanne Howe-Murphy’s book.
Jack CanfieldChicken Soup for the Soul® series, author of The Success Principles™
In our work of being better ancestors, we have been reimagining the work of changing ourselves to change the world—that a change toward wholeness in the world requires us to tend to reclaiming wholeness within ourselves. The Four Sacred Portals offers a path to doing this deep work, work that all of us who dream of a different world, but are weighed down by the weight and frames of this one, need to do.
Dr. Somava SahaFounder, WE in the World Institute
I read The Four Sacred Portals during a busy period in my life, so I read it quickly. But I immediately experienced the power of what Roxanne Howe-Murphy was saying. I loved it. I felt changed by it. So I decided to read it a second time, slowly, with considerable space, taking it in, breathing with it, savoring it. And it touched me on an even deeper level. Roxanne invites us to take an intimate and far-reaching journey to wholeness, to presence. And she offers us the pathways, the possibilities, and the practices to make that journey. Her book is a great gift. It moved me and it will move you.
Jeannine KayMBA, Speaking Coach
The Four Sacred Portals is more than a book—it’s a soulful invitation to come home to yourself. With signature wisdom, humility, and reverence, Roxanne Howe-Murphy offers a luminous path of transformation rooted in presence, inner trust, and sacred connectedness. This is not theory; it is lived, lucid, and generously shared. Through Sacred Holding, Sacred Trust, Sacred Connectedness, and Sacred Engagement, she gently guides readers into relationship with the Infinite within and around them. She weaves Enneagram wisdom with compassionate insight, offering a regenerative map that honors our finite and infinite natures. This book doesn’t ask us to fix ourselves—it calls us to remember our wholeness. As one who walks with others on the path of healing, liberation, and belonging, I recognize the power of this work. The Four Sacred Portals is a gift—medicine for the soul and a light for the journey ahead.
Dr. Deborah Threadgill EgertonAuthor, President of International Enneagram Association
In The Four Sacred Portals, Roxanne Howe-Murphy offers a rare synthesis of deep presence, embodied wisdom, and spiritual clarity. More than a reflection on healing, it invites conscious kinship with life. With reverence, she shares the EnneaCrossings™ map, not to master, but to meet, becoming a living guide for those ready to loosen the personality’s grip and relate to their essential nature. Each portal, Sacred Holding, Sacred Trust, Sacred Connectedness, and Sacred Engagement—offers a path back to the body, the heart, our belonging, and to love. For anyone navigating inner and outer change, this book is both sanctuary and call, reminding us we are not alone, not separate, and always called home.
Dr. Mary FiliceCo-founder, Enneagram Collaborative Global, The Method of Transformation™, and The Attuned Parent Project
EnneaCrossings™ framework to guide and move through them, awakening us to the hidden majesty of a life lived with calling and connection. By guiding the reader to realize an expanded sense of self and to develop the ability to trust the power of the unknown, Dr. Howe-Murphy provides an important supporting text on the journey to fully embrace life's profound callings.
Adam RubelExecutive Director, Private Philanthropic Foundation
The Four Sacred Portals is a true life companion. Drawing on years of helping us break free of repetitive patterns, Roxanne’s insight into Crossings and Portals is an ‘aha’—a key to transformation that lasts and draws strength from our vulnerabilities. Her writing, steeped in a deep understanding of our human and holy nature, meets us where we are. This isn’t a book of abstract ideas; it’s a living landscape of mercy, self-love, compassion, and courage. By exploring crossings and portals, we intersect our lived story with the Infinite—and discover new possibilities. A much-needed touchstone.
Patti TronoloneArtist and Intuitive Physical Exam Educator, Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Schools of Medicine
In The Four Sacred Portals, Roxanne Howe-Murphy offers a luminous invitation to come home to the foundation of coherence that allows us to heal our own separation from the wholeness of life. Her writing hums with the same steady, harmonic clarity that I recognize from years of listening to animals and the depth of seamless interconnection we share. With a knowing hand on the tiller, she guides the reader inward, not to fix what is broken, but to remember what has always been whole. This is a book that speaks not just to the mind or heart, but to the very intelligence of the soul. It’s Roxanne’s own intimate trust in what emerges from life that allows you to begin to see that reflecting in your own life: Greater trust, greater receiving through the perspective that all of life is a gift and an offering tailored just for you, with love.
Carol Elizabeth LongInterspecies Communicator, Teacher, and Founder of the Animal Wisdom Living Library
The Four Sacred Portals is a groundbreaking volume. In a clear, fresh, and practical fashion, it has given me an entirely new map; a guidebook into the understanding of how my body, heart, and mind work together—or not! These four sacred portals provide a direct pathway from the past to present, opening new doors into how habitual patterns of behavior can be transformed into new and beneficial ways of being in the world. What a gift!
Karen Van ZinoMD, Deep Coaching Professional, Author
Roxanne's offering of The Four Sacred Portals is a fresh, accessible, and steady companion on a journey home to yourself. It invites us to step into rediscovering and reconnecting with our unique essence and how to bring that out into the world at a time we never needed it more.
Barbara MathisonConsultant; Executive Director, Healthy Minds and Healthy Minds Innovations, University of Wisconsin
The Four Sacred Portals is a luminous, timely guide to living from your truest nature. With clarity and warmth, Roxanne Howe-Murphy invites a compassionate inquiry beneath personality, productivity, and pressure. Grounded in decades of teaching and transformation, it introduces EnneaCrossings™, bridging our conditioned self with the infinite dimension of Being. Through four regenerative gateways—Sacred Holding, Sacred Trust, Sacred Connectedness, and Sacred Engagement—she offers a practical path to heal the inner divide. This isn’t a quick fix but a return to inner truth, belonging, and the capacity to meet life with presence, courage, and love—reminding us our personality isn’t a prison.
Jeanne HaskellCo-director, Enneagram Collaborative Global
Before the brilliant content, what struck me most was Roxanne’s genuine warmth and acceptance. Her words radiate compassion and create a sense of safety where I felt held, accepted, and seen. She translates abstract ideas into felt connection—with ourselves, each other, and the Infinite. The Four Sacred Portals offers a unique lens that’s both hopeful and deep, inviting curiosity and gentleness I hadn’t known before. I loved this book and highly recommend it to anyone ready to explore themselves more deeply. By the end, I felt more peaceful, aligned, and open.
Kris PaloudaChief Marketing Officer, No Typical Moments
In today’s complex and often challenging world, The Four Sacred Portals is a welcome invitation to pause, reflect, and find one’s center. This book is an inspirational guide that can transform us to lead a life that feels whole and connected.
Elaine K. Ikeda, Ph.D.Director of LEAD California

What a time to be on the planet! It’s a challenge to be fully human. Life truly is messy and the noise and jarring unravelings taking place in the contemporary world do not offer much support to help us in embodying a sense of belonging here on earth, experiencing our spacious heart, guided by a clear inner knowing, and realizing the inherent interconnectedness that binds us all in the greater web of life.

Leaning Into Your Innate Wholeness

There are internal and external influences that often lead to a sense of being disconnected from our innate wholeness, from the earth and all her beings and from our sense of purpose, Higher Power, or Source. Yet the pathways back to our truer nature are as close as this very moment.

Since the 1990’s, I have served as a teacher and retreat facilitator; executive, transition, and spiritual coach; author; founding faculty member of a coaching school; and founder of the Deep Living Lab. My work has focused on the not always obvious path back to oneself, and the recovery of an embodied sense of wholeness imbued with a recognition that we all belong to the greater life journey. Interconnectedness is core to who we are.

As an author, my intention has focused on integrating the many threads of wisdom I’ve been blessed to receive, and offering practices and processes for applying them.

The Enneagram, Presence, and the evolving, non-dual body of wisdom called EnneaCrossings™ provide the foundations of my writings, and contribute to pivotal and powerful processes for a counter-intuitive approach to change.

I invite you to bring your curiosity.

With love and gratitude,
Roxanne