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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I’m reading a book that my therapist suggested- The Heroine’s Journey – which is a Jungian treatment of femininity. I agree with the premise, that society teaches women to devalue their femininity, and the Heroine’s journey is about leaving the mother (often in derision of her mother’s weakness) and going out into the world to
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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,
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I want to talk about an insight I had earlier this week. I have been preparing for a talk on the Enneagram that I’ll be giving at the Regina Public Library, but as with everything that involves producing something tangible, I have been struggling with a feeling of intense paralysis around the writing process. I
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Last night, I was trying to find an old Enneagram type 5 panel on youtube for my boyfriend (I always think about the lady in the blue sweater), but I ended up clicking on another video instead- a Conscious TV interview with Helen Palmer. It was so profound, we watched the whole thing. All it
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I was delighted to discover Beatrice Chestnut on youtube these past couple weeks. I have her book, The Complete Enneagram: 27 Paths to Greater Self-Knowledge, and it is one of the few Enneagram books written in the 2000’s that actually offers new material… and good, useful material at that. She knows her stuff, particularly about
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When I googled “How to Become a Jungian Therapist” last week, one of the hits was a Quora page where someone asked this question and a Jungian Analyst responded that you should have a dream about it. That was so far out of left field, I told my boyfriend about it, and we were laughing,
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