What was happening inside me at five years old? My parents didn’t know about the superego, or how fear, anger, and shame were already shaping my inner world. They couldn’t see the lasting impact this would have on my developing sense of self. The Enneagram World of the Child: Nurturing Resiliency and Self-Compassion in Early … Read more
New methods in neuroscience are uncovering what the Enneagram has been pointing to all along. I was reading this article in Neuroscience News about the Big Five personality traits being re-examined through a new data-driven method, and it got me wondering about the connection to the Enneagram. The Big Five (also called the Five-Factor Model … Read more
Part I: Typing the Terrain to Death You’re a Self-Pres 4 with a 5 wing. I’m a Social 9 with a strong 8 line. That explains everything… until it doesn’t. In Enneagram circles, relationships may become elaborate exercises in typological calculus. We analyze our instincts, wings, tritypes, childhood wounds, fixations, harmonics, and the subtypes of … Read more