Between getting hit on the side of the head that my dad might be a Six this year, realizing some people I love are Sixes, seeing more clearly the Six-ness behind the conspiracy theorizing that’s dismantling western democracy, seeing the case for Luigi Mangione being a Six, and finally facing my Jordan Peterson fears, 2024 […]
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My conservative uncle called me this week wanting to say hi and let me know he cares about me. I let it go to voice mail because I wasn’t sure how I was going to respond; I unfriended him during the pandemic after his posts where causing me so much stress that it took hours
I’m in a discussion with someone about the virtues, and he initially linked them to Christianity, which got me cringing because of course they go back beyond Christianity to Socrates and Pythagoras, and (because I’ve studied the Enneagram), I’d say they go back in their hellenstic form to the Egyptians. In his defence, he knows
“Become Yourself, then God and the Devil don’t Matter” Read More »
I’ve been having a hard time slogging through the trauma of the American election, with the attendant social media hazards that come along with politics. I couldn’t sleep tonight, so I wrote this fictional post to baby boomers who supported the male candidate: Baby boomers, has the church let you down? Do you see through
Conspiracy Theories: the Church of the Failed Baby Boomer Read More »
I’ve been trying to write about Enneagram Type Sixes who are behind the conspiracy theories undermining this presidential race and tainting it with cynicism and chronic skepticism, but Type Six is by far the toughest type to understand. If you have a Type Six friend or family member who is into these conspiracy theories, you
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These headlines ruined my day today. Aren’t Southern Americans the types of people who sneer at higher education, that say you don’t need university to make it in this world, that a degree is a waste of money? What irony that they’re threatening to kill scientists who are telling them scientific facts about hurricanes. Spreading
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On the topic of politics from yesterday, here’s another way the right-left divide is exacertabed unnecessarily: the political gap is as much about us feeling unheard and invalidated in our respective intelligence centre as it is about different values. I used to fight with my dad- he is a head type (5/6) and I’m a
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I felt a gut punch the other day when I saw that Russ Hudson and his Canadian writing partner Catherine just came out with a book on the Enneagram and Creativity. I did a double-take: creativity? I mean, it’s Russ so it will be good, but is he reading the same headlines I’m reading? Did
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The Enneagram-teaching therapist Tom Condon uses movies to get his clients into certain spaces. I remember reading one of his posts where he had a client who needed to do something courageous- I forget what type he was, but he needed to do something that required toughness and strength of will, so Tom sent him
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Last weekend, my boyfriend and I drove out to his family farm to get a big garden area ready for planting, and as I was jumping up and down to dig my fork into the soil, I wondered if maybe my chart was made for farm life, with my Saturn so prominent on the MC,
Saturn and Farming Read More »