142: How the Enneagram can help you get out of all the boxes you’ve been put in

When we start to use the Enneagram, a lot of people around us don’t understand it—and have a lot of opinions about it.⁣<br />⁣<br />“I don’t want a label,” “This is putting me in a box,” “People are unique,” are all things you might hear.⁣<br />⁣<br />Listen now⁣<br />⁣<br />⁣<br />I get it—because I said a lot of those same things myself.⁣<br />⁣<br />When my therapist wanted me to take the Enneagram test, I said, “Listen, lady, I’m here in rehab and really don’t need another label.”⁣<br />⁣<br />But today I want to talk about the Enneagram and looking beyond the box.⁣<br />⁣<br />If we just learn about our type and the types of people we care about, we aren’t getting the whole picture. There’s so much more than just our core type—there are lots of complexities to the Enneagram.⁣<br />⁣<br />The Enneagram is like a puzzle we’re constantly putting together.⁣<br />⁣<br />We’re putting together the puzzle of ourselves and other people—not to manipulate, but to genuinely understand.⁣<br />⁣<br />After my initial hesitation, I remember my therapist saying, “This will help you get out of the box not only you’ve put yourself in, but that the world has put you in.”⁣<br />⁣<br />⁣<br />Quotes⁣<br />0:22⁣<br />Once we start speaking this language and people around us don’t understand it, they have opinions about what this enneagram thing is.⁣<br />⁣<br />1:42 ⁣<br />There is so much more than just our Enneagram type, and there are so many different complexities to it that can help you grow.⁣<br />⁣<br />2:57 ⁣<br />When we can understand what the Enneagram can do for us, through us, around us it really provides a road map for where we can go. ⁣<br />⁣<br />5:21 ⁣<br />Each type has 3 instinctual ways that we respond to things. ⁣<br />⁣<br />7:00 ⁣<br />Really understanding all of it and where this is all rooted from really allows you to flow a little more harmonious through life.⁣<br />⁣<br />10:20 ⁣<br />When we go to work to mindset our way through but we don’t let our heart set our way through, our soul set never gets