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Enneagram Type 5 In Their Own Words
This post is part of a series to help you experience the Enneagram types. For years, I've been collecting stories of people to help illustrate how it feels to be an Enneagram type. Here, I’ve included some of my favorite podcasts or videos so you can hear 5s talk about their type and their life experiences in their own words.
Enneagram Type 4 In Their Own Words
This post is part of a series to help you experience the Enneagram types. For years, I've been collecting stories of people to help illustrate how it feels to be an Enneagram type. Here, I’ve included some of my favorite podcasts or videos so you can hear 4s talk about their type and their life experiences in their own words.
Enneagram Type 3 In Their Own Words
This post is part of a series to help you experience the Enneagram types. For years, I've been collecting stories of people to help illustrate how it feels to be an Enneagram type. Here, I’ve included some of my favorite podcasts or videos so you can hear 3s talk about their type and their life experiences in their own words.
Enneagram Type 2 In Their Own Words
This post is part of a series to help you experience the Enneagram types. For years, I've been collecting stories of people to help illustrate how it feels to be an Enneagram type. Here, I’ve included some of my favorite podcasts or videos so you can hear 2s talk about their type and their life experiences in their own words.
Enneagram Type 1 In Their Own Words
This post is part of a series to help you experience the Enneagram types. For years, I've been collecting stories of people to help illustrate how it feels to be an Enneagram type. Here, I’ve included some of my favorite podcasts or videos so you can hear 1s talk about their type and their life experiences in their own words.
Enneagram Type 9 In Their Own Words
This post is part of a series to help you experience the Enneagram types. For years, I've been collecting stories of people to help illustrate how it feels to be an Enneagram type. Here, I’ve included some of my favorite podcasts or videos so you can hear 9s talk about their type and their life experiences in their own words.
Enneagram Type 8 In Their Own Words
This post is the first in a series to help you experience the Enneagram types. For years, I've been collecting stories of people to help illustrate how it feels to be an Enneagram type. Here, I’ve included some of my favorite podcasts or videos so you can hear 8s talk about their type and their life experiences in their own words.
Discovering the Enneagram: A Pattern
I like how Brene described the experience of working with the Enneagram in 4 stages…
Making Peace With Your Inner Dragons
Whenever I come across a resource that will help people better understand the Enneagram, I can’t wait to share it. So you can imagine my excitement when Brene Brown interviewed an Enneagram teacher on her podcast Unlocking Us. I’ve learned so much from Brene, that to listen in on their conversation was a treat. And, as I anticipated, they did not disappoint…
Upleveling in times of crisis
I was inspired this week by a series of videos from Strategic Coach, Dan Sullivan, who put out a “Scary Times” success manual for entrepreneurs. In it, he offers 10 strategies to transform our current anxieties into strategic growth, progress, and achievement…
We Respond Differently to Stress
How we respond to stress has a lot to do with learned patterns of behaviors that become unconscious responses over time. Our brain is so efficient that it has automated certain behaviors that have helped us survive. But these responses may not always be beneficial. The COVID-19 outbreak gives us an opportunity to check-in with ourselves and attune to what we really need at this moment, to build our physical capacity to be resilient in times of stress, and to get more familiar with our authentic selves and inherent strengths.
How to Support Your Teens During School Closures
Are you in a mild panic at the thought of having your kids home for the foreseeable future? Are you wondering where to even start as you think about how to keep them busy and on track with their academics? With the recent school closures because of the COVID-19 outbreak, I wanted to share some ideas and resources for parents who are facing home education for the first time, even if only temporarily. I
Intentionally Pursuing Rest to Improve my Health and Manage Anxiety
I recently finished reading a book to help me understand and heal my parasympathetic nervous system - the rest, digest, and recovery system in your body that helps you manage the impacts of chronic stress. Here are some of the strategies that I am planning to implement this year…
Three Ways of Knowing - Understanding Our Centers of Intelligence
Did you know that there is a neural network not just in your brain, but also around your heart and in your gut? Our gut and heart send messages to our brain that we react to without having to think about it. Depending on your Enneagram archetype, you've come to rely on one center more than the others and this is what creates your default or automatic responses to life.
An Introduction to the Enneagram Archetypes (Free Download)
Getting started with the Enneagram can be confusing - there is a lot of information to keep track of and it isn't always easy to see how everything fits together. That's why I created a cheat sheet for you to help you understand the nine archetypes better.