“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 Canfield, Co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series and author of The Success Principles™

“The Four Sacred Portals is more than a book—it is a soulful invitation to come home to yourself. Roxanne Howe-Murphy, with her signature wisdom, humility, and reverence for the human spirit, offers us a luminous path of transformation rooted in presence, inner trust, and sacred connectedness.
Her work is not theoretical; it is deeply lived, lovingly articulated, and generously shared.
Through the portals of Sacred Holding, Sacred Trust, Sacred Connectedness, and Sacred Engagement, Roxanne gently guides readers into a relationship with the Infinite within and around them. She weaves the wisdom of the Enneagram with compassionate insight into the human experience, offering a regenerative map that honors both our finite and infinite natures.
This book does not ask us to fix ourselves—it calls us to remember the wholeness that has always been present.
As someone who walks alongside others on the path of healing, liberation, and belonging, I recognize the power of what Roxanne has offered here. The Four Sacred Portals is a gift for all who seek to live from their authentic truth, in harmony with the web of life. It is medicine for the soul and a light for the journey ahead.”
—Dr. Deborah Threadgill Egerton, Author, Know Justice Know Peace and The Enneagram Made Easy; President, International Enneagram Association

“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 Saha, Founder, WE in the World Institute

“In The Four Sacred Portals, Roxanne Howe-Murphy offers a rare synthesis of deep presence, embodied wisdom, and spiritual clarity. This book is more than a reflection on healing—it is an invitation to live in conscious kinship with life. With great reverence, Roxanne shares the EnneaCrossings™ map, not as something to master, but as something to meet. What emerges is a living, breathing guide for those ready to surrender the personality’s grip and step into a relationship with their essential nature.
Each portal—Sacred Holding, Sacred Trust, Sacred Connectedness, and Sacred Engagement—offers a path of return: to the body, to the heart, to our inherent belonging, and to love itself.
For anyone navigating the complexity of inner and outer change, this book is both a sanctuary and a call. It reminds us that we are not alone, that we are not separate, and that what calls us—calls us home.”
—Dr. Mary Filice, Co-founder, Enneagram Collaborative Global, The Method of Transformation™, and The Attuned Parent Project

“Dr. Roxanne Howe-Murphy elegantly and effectively shares a guiding path of integration, wholeness, and purpose through her writing in The Four Sacred Portals. The writing is a beautiful articulation of how one can allow aspects of the 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 Rubel, Executive Director, Private Philanthropic Foundation

“Roxanne Howe-Murphy’s new book, The Four Sacred Portals, is a life companion and a lifelong companion. Building on her many years’ work with human interactions and the struggle to find freedom from repetitive patterns, Crossings and Portals became an aha moment, the discovery of a key to deep transformational work that lasts. Work that builds on the strength inherent in our very vulnerabilities.
Like many books of wisdom and truth it can be picked up at any time and her words will engage the Real inside you—to see a side of something in yourself and to see it in a new way.
Roxanne’s work is a living thing. It is work that is drenched in an intimate understanding of being a human being and being a holy being on this earth. Through her words she meets us where we are.
Her book is not a work of Ideas although there are ideas in it. Roxanne’s book is a landscape. A circular landscape of mercy, self-love, compassion, and courage—the landscape of the heart.
Howe-Murphy uses a lexicon of significant words like crossings and portals. True to the landscape of the heart, she accompanies you to cross the linear lived journey of your life and intersect it with the Infinite within yourself. Crossings then are the felt journey through our own search for wholeness; and the portals—the openings that occur when we investigate and pierce what we have come to believe about ourselves. And finally, how taking up this work can lead to an infinite well of new possibilities. She has given us a much-needed touchstone for our lives.”
—Patti Tronolone, Artist 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 Long, Interspecies Communicator, Teacher, and Founder of the Animal Wisdom Living Library

“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 Kay, MBA, Speaking Coach

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 Zino, MD, 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 Mathison, Consultant; Executive Director, Healthy Minds and Healthy Minds Innovations, University of Wisconsin (ret.)

The Four Sacred Portals is a luminous and timely guide for those ready to live from their truest nature. With clarity, warmth, and deep insight, Roxanne Howe-Murphy leads us into a compassionate inquiry of who we really are—beneath the layers of personality, productivity, and pressure.
Grounded in decades of teaching, research, and personal transformation, this book introduces EnneaCrossings™, a pioneering framework that gently bridges our conditioned self with the infinite dimension of Being.
Through four accessible and regenerative gateways—Sacred Holding, Sacred Trust, Sacred Connectedness, and Sacred Engagement—Roxanne offers a practical path toward healing the inner divide that so many carry.
Whether you’re on a spiritual path, supporting others, or just trying to make sense of life, The Four Sacred Portals is a grounded and trustworthy companion. It doesn’t offer quick fixes—but something far more enduring: a return to inner truth, a felt sense of belonging, and a renewed capacity to meet life with presence, courage, and love.
In a world hungry for meaning and reconnection, this book is more than a personal guide—it’s a quiet act of service to the collective. Roxanne reminds us that our personality is not a prison, and our deepest nature is always within reach.”
—Jeanne Haskell, Co-director, Enneagram Collaborative Global

“Before I even get into the amazing content, I have to share how inspired I am by Roxanne’s genuine warmth and acceptance that comes through in her writing. Her words radiate compassion and understanding, creating a space where I felt truly held, accepted, and seen.
It’s a remarkable gift for an author to foster such a sense of belonging and safety for their readers.
I loved this book and highly recommend it to anyone open to exploring themselves more deeply or discovering new ways of seeing both themselves and the Infinite.
Roxanne has a magical gift for taking abstract concepts and weaving them into our hearts and minds, creating a sense of connection—with ourselves and with the greater interconnectedness of humanity.
The Four Sacred Portals offers a unique lens for seeing and connecting on a deep level. It’s a rare blend of hopefulness, lightness, and depth. Roxanne explores ideas that guided me to view myself with new curiosity and gentleness—something I hadn’t known how to do before.
By the end, I felt more peaceful, aligned, and open with myself.”
—Kris Palouda, Chief 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 (ret)