The Path Between Us: An Enneagram Journey to Healthy Relationships

Spiritually healthy, self-aware Eights love to do what others say can’t be done. When their energy is harnessed and channeled they can change the course of history. Think Martin Luther King Jr.

Difficult feelings related to not being supported and recognized, or not feeling connected or included, can conveniently be forgotten. This potentially false sense of comfort comes at a high price, however: the disconnection from your internal life. If Nines can work to discover what feelings they habitually avoid as part of their pattern of overad

When Nines are spiritually mature they are chill, easygoing people who know how to relax and go with the flow of life. Adaptable and even-tempered, they don’t sweat the small stuff like so many of us do. They’re Gore-Tex, not Velcro.

If Nines fall too deeply into this hazy trance, they become increasingly absent-minded and less productive, which only causes more problems for them in their relationships.

Though you may not pick up on it at first, the more you pressure a Nine to make a decision or do something the more they quietly dig their heels in and resist.