The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth

“What makes you cry? What makes you angry? When does your jaw clench or your back straighten?”

every experience we translate through our type consolidates its impression on us. It’s as if when we’re born, our soul lands on an arbitrary place on the circle of the Enneagram, and from that perspective of the world we develop attitudes we embrace as a way of framing context for every experience we’ll ever have.

The Threes are the most estranged from their hearts (often manifested in their loneliness), the Sixes the most detached from their minds (which explains how irrational they can sometimes be), and the Nines the most disjointed from their bodies (experienced in the ways they calm down their external environments through the mellowing energy they proj

allowing rest to become freedom, the gift it was always meant to be (Seven).

Sevens take on a self-nurturing posture as a means of coping with their residual pain and frustration.

As you read through the materials, the type you feel most exposed by or most uncomfortable with is usually the one that ends up being yours.

When Sevens rest in silence, they find the greatest adventures already lie within their own souls. Sevens don’t need to run off to what’s next when they learn to listen to what’s within. Caricatured as the type that is always up, always on the move, and always dreaming, Sevens are prone to the eventuality of burnout, so turning off all the noise of

Sevens are afraid that answers will bring completion to an internal journey that is unending.

My own consistent struggle is to recognize my addictive tendency to validate my worth (dignity) by curating an unrealistic and unattainable projection of who I think I need to be (identity).

it exposes nine ways our human nature manages our ego’s* collection of coping addictions that we have wrapped around our most intimate and deepest pain—our Childhood Wound.