I watched this Omeletto video this morning and was pleasantly surprised. It wasn’t super profound, but it was a light-hearted example of what society looks like when we’re unbalanced in the three intelligence centres, with an overweight toward the heart. In the Enneagram, we have three intelligence centres- the head (logic, rationality, etc), the heart […]
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My aunt is either an Enneagram 7w6 or a 6w7 and everything I say to her gets churned into a soupy vat of grey untrue-ness where the distinction between truth and lies gets dissolved by doubt and cynicism, and she can choose to believe whatever she wants based on how much of a political “underdog”
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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’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
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I know a liberal Jewish man who recently did inquiry with a conservative Jewish woman in a Diamond Approach context about Israel and Palestine. They had done it in person before, but at this point, they were doing it over e-mail. One of the last things she said before the communication broke down was that
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I was thinking about gender roles today because I was at Safeway getting last minute groceries for when my sister and her family arrive for Thanksgiving and there were a lot of what were probably single men there. This happens to me often- I don’t like cooking or even thinking about cooking, so I often
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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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