The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth

The contemporary Enneagram of Personality* illustrates the nine ways we get lost, but also the nine ways we can come home to our True Self. Put another way, it exposes nine ways we lie to ourselves about who we think we are, nine ways we can come clean about those illusions, and nine ways we can find our way back to God.

The mental and emotional scar tissues of these wounds form the nine different ways we cope with their pain, molding tragic character flaws we often overidentify with, aiding in the development (or malformation) of our personalities.

ranch). Our Enneagram type is the home we are likely born in and will most definitely die in.

it’s a compassionate sketch of possibilities and opportunities, pointing us back to our True Self

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

Coming to terms with our type is a rite of passage, a sacred experience that should be owned by each of us when we are ready for it.

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).

As such, the Nine observes all that is and, rather than getting sucked into the drama, essentially opts out, witnessing the world without much compulsion to participate in it.

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