The Inner Work of Love & Action: An Embodied Enneagram Path from Self-Forgetting to Self-Remembering - Paperback

Most of us are longing for a more satisfying, fulfilling life, yet aren't quite sure what keeps getting in the way.

We've tried to make changes. Sometimes they take, sometimes they don't - and even when they do, the feeling doesn't always follow. Underneath it all is a yearning to be more, to have more, to live and love more fully than we currently do. Some days that feels right around the corner. Other days, impossibly far away.

This book calls that gap self-forgetting - the quiet, automatic losing of contact with our true nature, not chosen but learned. And it offers something rarer than another strategy for change: a way back.

The Inner Work of Love and Action draws on the Enneagram not as a personality system but as a path of awakening. Theresa A. Gale traces the nine distinct ways we lose ourselves, and the nine corresponding paths home. Through embodied practices, contemplative meditations, and the lived stories of people who have walked this path, she accompanies the reader from self-forgetting to self-remembering, from self-remembering into Presence, and from Presence into Love.

It is not a book of answers. It is a companion for the journey inward that quietly transforms the life you are living.

What you'll discover:

• The nine Enneagram Types explored through the lens of embodied experience - not just personality, but presence.
• Practices for self-remembering that move beyond insight into lived transformation.
• The bridge between inner work and action - how love, when truly embodied, cannot help but move outward.

Theresa A. Gale is a consultant, a trainer, and coach whose work sits at the intersection of spiritual intelligence and organizational life. For decades she has guided individuals, teams, and leaders through the kind of inner work that produces lasting outer change.

Certified in the Enneagram and grounded in embodied spiritual practice, Theresa brings both rigor and tenderness to her work. The Inner Work of Love & Action is the distillation of that practice -- offered now to a wider world.

"The path inward is not an escape from the world -- it is the very thing that prepares you to meet it." The Inner Work of Love & Action