Praise for Deep Living
Our modern society has trained us to look outside of ourselves for our meaning and fulfillment. We know there is something more — a peace within — and it beckons us. In Deep Living, the author identifies that urge for inner connectedness as our soul’s call to what is real within—the truth that lies beneath the stories about ourselves. Thankfully, she also shows us how we can navigate the journey back to our essence.
From the Foreword by MARCI SHIMOFF, New York Times Bestselling author
One of the greatest discoveries of the past two centuries is that the human personality is not fixed but is flexible, changeable, and malleable. Dr. Roxanne Howe-Murphy is a wise, empathic coach who knows how these changes can be encouraged and facilitated. If you feel stuck in your journey and are ready for growth, change, and greater fulfillment and happiness, let this master coach be your guide.
LARRY DOSSEY, MD
Author, ONE MIND: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters
How can we truly know ourselves when faced with nearly constant media messages that tell us who to be and how to be? Dive deep into Deep Living with the Enneagram and you will discover the keys to your own true nature and your personality. Most importantly, you will learn how to be true to yourself without getting trapped in your personality. That is when freedom and deep living really begin. There is great wisdom in ‘Deep Living with the Enneagram.‘
CHRISTIANE NORTHRUP
New York Times best-selling author, Goddesses Never Age, The Wisdom of Menopause, and Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom.
A willingness to let go of what is for what could be is really scary. And yet, there is no spiritual transformation without it. If you are looking for a way forward and a guide, it is without reservation that I recommend Roxanne Howe-Murphy. In Deep Living, she combines her broad knowledge of the Enneagram with a prophetic way of accurately reading the realities of our time. Following her lead, we can find the courage to trust in who we might become without knowing exactly how we will get there.
SUZANNE STABILE
Author, The Path Between Us: An Enneagram Journey to Healthy Relationships.
Podcast Host, The Enneagram Journey
It is a rare book that can bring a reader home to Soul. Roxanne Howe-Murphy’s sensitive excavation of the Enneagram awakens the reader to their true human potential. It offers heartfelt, timely guidance of someone who lived every step what she wrote, and who leads her readers back to what we all knew was our task from the beginning — the embodied presence and original song of Soul. Deep Living is food for the heart, balm for the soul, and light for the spirit.
CHRISTINA DONNELL, PhD
Author, Transcendent Dreaming: Stepping Into Our Human Potential.
This is a book that makes possible deeper intimacy with yourself, by bringing together the practical and the profound. Deep Living offers many pathways for the active practice of presence in the exploration of what it means to be fully human. Using the Enneagram to radically and compassionately shift the reader’s understanding of him or herself, Roxanne Howe-Murphy offers wise guidance to an inside-out process that teaches readers how to refocus their attention and build upon their innate capacity for living with more joy, aliveness, and fulfillment. We recommend this book as an important source of spiritual guidance to support and accelerate your own awakening.
RUSS HUDSON and the late DON RICHARD RISO
Authors, The Wisdom of the Enneagram and Personality Types
Deep Living is profound transformational inner directed therapy…
NANCY LORRAINE
Senior Reviewer, The Midwest Book Review
The malaise of our time is shallow-mindedness, superficiality and abbreviated awareness. Deep Living by Dr. Roxanne Howe-Murphy offers a compelling antidote.
MICHAEL J. GELB
Author, How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci
Soul excavation is hard work – but the Enneagram is a powerful tool and Roxanne Howe-Murphy a very able guide to this process. For spiritual directors — or anyone who is ready to pay attention to the call of authenticity in their lives, and allow themselves to be truly present — Deep Living provides a map to interior freedom and more genuine relationships with God, Self and others. This book challenges the reader to move to new levels of self-awareness and healing, providing concrete steps and real help for true transformation.
SUZANNE BUCKLEY
Director, Mercy Center
Editor, Sacred Is the Call — The Transformational Work of Spiritual Direction
Programs for Personal and Professional Growth
Roxanne Howe-Murphy’s latest book, Deep Living, is an absolute treasure! Based on the ancient wisdom of the Enneagram, this book provides us with a detailed map of our personality, our frequently occurring behavioral patterns, and the deep living transformation process. Roxanne gifts us with the necessary tools to become ‘pattern detectives;’ thereby enabling us to shift from seeing our patterns in life’s rear-view mirror, to noticing and catching ourselves in the midst of enacting our patterns, to seeing them just before we engage in them. Roxanne’s book is a rich resource that I will turn to time and again to access wisdom and understandings about personality and behavioral patterns, and to move towards greater awareness and presence.
JANET SMITH, PhD
Director, The Education Institute
University of Canberra, Australia
Roxanne Howe-Murphy’s book is truly one of the greatest gifts to come forth from the Enneagram world! In Deep Living, Roxanne provides one of THE most accessible (simple and understandable) descriptions of the spiritual journey yet published. She has made understandable and simple what generally defies language — the experience of the soul. I’m finding myself wanting to give this book to almost everyone I know and care about. What a gift!
LYNDA ROBERTS
Former Faculty, The Enneagram Institute
Former President, The Board of the International Enneagram Association
Project Management Professional
The Enneagram is a powerful resource for gaining a unique doorway into self-knowledge, an essential benefit for people in the midst of career change and other life transitions. As you dive into Deep Living, you’ll uncover nuances about your own innate capacities, gifts, and beliefs that will help you discover ways you can deepen the way you live your life.
CAROL MCCLELLAND, PhD
Author, The Seasons of Change: Using Nature’s Wisdom
to Grow through Life’s Inevitable Ups and Downs
Deep Living does, indeed, transform your relationship to everything that matters, starting with that most important relationship — the one between you and YOU. Read this book to understand yourself more fully and appreciate yourself more deeply. Read it to move beyond your current, outworn, habitual patterns to the freshness of being authentically present in the moment. Read it to better understand the other relationships in your life. Read this book. You’ll be so glad you did!
MARCIA CANNON, PhD, MFT
Author, The Gift of Anger
SHE is a modern mystic!!!! Roxanne Howe-Murphy captures the deepest beat of life and translates it for the ears, eyes and hearts of all who claim readiness to what life can be about. To live deeply may not be for the faint of heart, but there is much Light and Liberation in the pilgrimage to our very essence. The Enneagram, as Roxanne sees it and utilizes it, is a sacred path, an expedition in love of Self and of others. To know one’s inherent nature is to be realized and truly free.
HARRIETT SIMON SALINGER, MCC, LCSW
Executive and Personal Coach
Spiritual Director and Certified Seeker
If you are ready to witness yourself with both eyes wide open, to understand why you act the way you do (even when it is ineffective), and to learn how to live in alignment with your true essence, this is the book for which you have been waiting. Roxanne shares her wisdom, compassion and deep coaching expertise, leaving you with the gift of deep living. A must-read for anyone ready to begin or continue their personal life journey!
SUZANNE GLAZER
Assistant Director, Executive Coaching
Leadership Initiative, Harvard Business School
Roxanne Howe-Murphy combines her wisdom and experience as a coach with the profound wisdom of the Enneagram. She lays down a multi-perspective frame for each of the nine personality types, enabling us to see ourselves through many lenses — from our most disabling patterns to our greatest gifts. She also provides accessible, type-specific practices that support movement out of those patterns and into a more integrated way of being. Those who truly take this work to heart, however, learn to create the conditions for an inner shift that can peel away the need for self-limiting personal stories and judgments and open to a life lived with greater possibility and presence. A very worthwhile read!
LAUREN VANETT
Founder & Director, Core Strengths Coaching Program
San Francisco State University
Deep Living clearly & concisely describes the fundamentals of personal growth and spiritual awareness. This could easily be a textbook for a college class focused on the emotional and social intelligence required to excel personally and professionally. It will transform your life.
DOUG MOORE, PhD
Psychologist and Life Coach
Finally, here is a book that reveals how to achieve inner peace by first tuning into your body’s brilliance. Roxanne Howe-Murphy’s Deep Living is a book that you will reference again and again. Using the ancient wisdom of the Enneagram, Roxanne skillfully navigates a life path of happiness and fulfillment. You will find veil after veil lifting to reveal your true and beautiful self.
VICKY CRUZ, DC
Speaker, Facilitator and Instructor
NET Certified Practitioner
Co-Founder, Full Moon Healing Center
Deep Living is a valuable resource to unlock our personality structure and to transform into our evolutionary nature.
PATT LIND-KYLE
Author, Heal Your Mind Rewire Your Brain
