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The Enneagram of Eating: How the 9 Personality Types Influence Your Food, Diet, and Exercise Choices
A guide to using your Enneagram personality type to understand your approach to eating, dieting, and exercise
• Shows how the Enneagram system of personality types can explain your relationship to food, emotional triggers and childhood patterns around eating, food choices, best methods for weight loss or gain, possible addictions, love (or not) for entertaining, and the right exercise method to keep you motivated
• Includes an Enneagram food-personality test and explains how understanding your Enneagram type allows you to alter your subconscious programming and become not only physically, but emotionally healthier
• Provides examples of healthy and unhealthy expressions of each personality type’s relationship to food and exercise
Have you ever wondered why some people seem to adore food, while others find eating simply a need? Why some people just love to work out and others absolutely abhor anything to do with physical exercise? Why some love entertaining, while others would rather spend a quiet evening alone?
In The Enneagram of Eating , Ann Gadd reveals how the well-known Enneagram system of personality types can explain your relationship to food and exercise. Including an easy Enneagram food-personality test to find your type, she devotes a full chapter to each of the 9 personality types. She provides an understanding of each type’s emotional eating triggers, including the emotional wounds and childhood patterns that formed them, what exercise regime will keep you motivated, why you entertain the way you do (or don’t), and the best methods for weight loss or gain. The author examines how we view our bodies, how we deal with food and eating, our behaviors when dining out or hosting a dinner party, possible addictions, and where our enthusiasm (or lack thereof) for exercise originates. Stressing how our emotional health affects our physical selves, the author provides examples of healthy and unhealthy development within each type.
Gadd shows how knowing how each type reacts around food will make it easier for us to alter our subconscious programming and become not only physically, but emotionally healthier. Offering fascinating insight into our subconscious attitudes toward food, she aims to inspire you to become more aware of your approach to eating in general, so you can develop healthier and happier ways of being.
• Shows how the Enneagram system of personality types can explain your relationship to food, emotional triggers and childhood patterns around eating, food choices, best methods for weight loss or gain, possible addictions, love (or not) for entertaining, and the right exercise method to keep you motivated
• Includes an Enneagram food-personality test and explains how understanding your Enneagram type allows you to alter your subconscious programming and become not only physically, but emotionally healthier
• Provides examples of healthy and unhealthy expressions of each personality type’s relationship to food and exercise
Have you ever wondered why some people seem to adore food, while others find eating simply a need? Why some people just love to work out and others absolutely abhor anything to do with physical exercise? Why some love entertaining, while others would rather spend a quiet evening alone?
In The Enneagram of Eating , Ann Gadd reveals how the well-known Enneagram system of personality types can explain your relationship to food and exercise. Including an easy Enneagram food-personality test to find your type, she devotes a full chapter to each of the 9 personality types. She provides an understanding of each type’s emotional eating triggers, including the emotional wounds and childhood patterns that formed them, what exercise regime will keep you motivated, why you entertain the way you do (or don’t), and the best methods for weight loss or gain. The author examines how we view our bodies, how we deal with food and eating, our behaviors when dining out or hosting a dinner party, possible addictions, and where our enthusiasm (or lack thereof) for exercise originates. Stressing how our emotional health affects our physical selves, the author provides examples of healthy and unhealthy development within each type.
Gadd shows how knowing how each type reacts around food will make it easier for us to alter our subconscious programming and become not only physically, but emotionally healthier. Offering fascinating insight into our subconscious attitudes toward food, she aims to inspire you to become more aware of your approach to eating in general, so you can develop healthier and happier ways of being.
192 pages, Paperback
Published October 16, 2018
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About the author
Ann Gadd
52 books8 followersAnn Gadd is an author of 42 books translated across many different languages as well as being an artist and Enneagram teacher.
After 15 years in advertising, she bought and managed a health store, wrote her first book, became an alternative practitioner, continued writing for various magazines, and painted quirky sheep paintings, as well as running art workshops and becoming the SA National Board-sailing Champion, in between being a mother to her two children and several animals.
She facilitated of “Create Yourself” Art Workshops for 12 workshops on various other topics, more recently, the Enneagram. She is a Reiki Master, Footologist*, transformational counsellor, Enneagram coach, and speaker.
She has studied, counselled and treated people, using a variety of healing disciplines for over 20 years during which time, she has gained some profound insights into the human psyche.
Ann’s overall expression is one of inspiration and change through consciousness and creation.
After 15 years in advertising, she bought and managed a health store, wrote her first book, became an alternative practitioner, continued writing for various magazines, and painted quirky sheep paintings, as well as running art workshops and becoming the SA National Board-sailing Champion, in between being a mother to her two children and several animals.
She facilitated of “Create Yourself” Art Workshops for 12 workshops on various other topics, more recently, the Enneagram. She is a Reiki Master, Footologist*, transformational counsellor, Enneagram coach, and speaker.
She has studied, counselled and treated people, using a variety of healing disciplines for over 20 years during which time, she has gained some profound insights into the human psyche.
Ann’s overall expression is one of inspiration and change through consciousness and creation.
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February 1, 2019
I did not read cover to cover. Had to return to library before I could really read it.
I scanned through my Ennaegramn type (6). The concept of the book in interesting to overlay one personality with ideas of how you might take care of yourself best. As a Nutrition professional myself, something seemed overly simplistic about the examples given in the book. But, that could also be attributed to my own background.
I scanned through my Ennaegramn type (6). The concept of the book in interesting to overlay one personality with ideas of how you might take care of yourself best. As a Nutrition professional myself, something seemed overly simplistic about the examples given in the book. But, that could also be attributed to my own background.
June 17, 2020
Our type is not formed by our youth, but rather, one could say, our childhood is formed by our type.
I enjoyed this read, not so much for any truly groundbreaking information or insight about the Enneagram, but because of new portrayals of the familiar nine types. For example, I thought the childhood trauma stories for each type were the clearest of any book I've read on the Enneagram -- and by now, I've read a few.
I also found the descriptions of Nines, Fives and Twos especially poignant, as in those types I could immediately recognize many people close to me and how likely they are, for example, to not care about cooking at all, or base their choice of dinner on who they're having it with, or even their specific weakness to sugary foods.
I have to say, Mrs. Gadd had a true strike of inspiration when coming up with the topic. Food is so central to our lives that behaviors, inadequacies, overcompensations and other challenges related to it, such as under- or overeating, lack of exercise, can serve as very useful nodes and points of interest for the study of the Enneagram. Through them, one can really observe a wide variety of the different behavioral patterns that can hint at one's type and integration.
One disappointment in the book was the portrayal of Fours. I felt it was too distracted by the "look at me I'm special" or connoisseur aspect of Fours and glazed over other facets I would recognize as more relevant to my path and level of integration. Maybe that's just me. Er, irony unintended.
Still, I must say I really liked this The Enneagram of dot dot dot idea. Would love to see: The Enneagram of Travel, The Enneagram of Art, The Enneagram of Ideology and Political Disposition, The Enneagram on Social Media.
November 19, 2018
The Enneagram of Eating. Ann Gadd takes us on an easy read into the world of food choices, addictions, entertaining and exercise through the lens of the nine Enneagram personalities. While many books have been written on the Enneagram, this is the first I’ve come across on this topic. The different levels of emotional health and how they translate in each types relationship to eating (emotional and physical health) give deeper insight. This is not a diet book however, i.e. its not going to suggest what you should be eating and how, rather it provides an insight into why each type may have gained weight. Gadd hopes that in enhancing your understanding of your relationship to food, it will help you work with the emotional cause of your weight gain. The test as the back of the book provides for fun clues as to your type for those who are still in a quandary. Glimpses into how you eat out etc. may also help you to find your type. It is clear that a lot of research has gone into writing this book. A book worth reading if you want to understand your relationship with food, dieting and exercise. Her accessible style, touches of humor and interesting information, make for an enjoyable read.
June 20, 2021
I have been studying the Enneagram for a couple of years. This book was the perfect addition to my library. It really showed me some of my food health issues that are completely in line with my type. Maybe this information will lead me to real change.
May 13, 2019
Super fascinating and a very unique way to use the enneagram. I will definitely refer back to this one again and again.
July 15, 2020
I definitely found this interesting. I struggle with my Enneagram type though, I haven’t been able to truly pick one. So there’s that. I might come back to this after doing more research into types.
December 9, 2020
Practical advice for how to eat or exercise for each type was a bit spotty. One type might give specific and practical advice, while another was more general and vague.
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May 1, 2019Brian Taylor, Vice-President of the Enneagram Institute.
I found The Enneagram of Eating to be an inviting and informative introduction not only to the Enneagram but also a reminder of how our ingrained habits of who we think we are unconsciously impact the choices we make about life, including diet and exercise. Ann reminds us that “it doesn’t have to be that way”, and invites us to a more mindful and aware consideration of our life’s unlimited options, while gently applying the helpful and guiding principles of the Enneagram.
I found The Enneagram of Eating to be an inviting and informative introduction not only to the Enneagram but also a reminder of how our ingrained habits of who we think we are unconsciously impact the choices we make about life, including diet and exercise. Ann reminds us that “it doesn’t have to be that way”, and invites us to a more mindful and aware consideration of our life’s unlimited options, while gently applying the helpful and guiding principles of the Enneagram.
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