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We Wanted to Be Like God
“For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God…”Genesis 3:5 Like many of my white brothers and sisters in recent weeks, I want to be part of healing racial pain in our country. And similarly to many of my white sisters and...
Can the Enneagram Help Us Care for Our Church Leaders Right Now?
The answer is, "of course!" You can hear for yourself how the Enneagram is helping church leaders manage the stress and anxiety of discerning when to re-open their buildings. Click here to read more.
Selah
Humans have always tried to organize time into categories in order to better understand their experience. There is the Ancient period, the Middle Ages, and the Modern era. We sort information in order to manage an overwhelming topic—the history of the humankind....
Enneagram 7: Is There a Bright Side to All of This?
Healthy 7's: Bringing joy to others through their gifts, healthy 7's help us see the best in our circumstances. A healthy 7 can help us find contentment where we are, or at least inspire us to be adventurous and find joy and contentment in unexpected places. Joy is a...
Enneagram 6: Whatever This Is, We’re All in This Together
Healthy 6: Healthy 6's can be calm in present uncertainty because they have prepared for multiple outcomes. Naturally wary towards danger and able to sense trouble, they help their community know when caution is called for. Healthy 6's do this out of a healthy...
The Rush to Return
Do you have that music phase that makes you shake your head? It's the one where you shrug to yourself and confess, “No idea what happened there." Country music was that phase for me. One song has stayed with me, though: Alabama’s “I’m in a Hurry”....
Enneagram 5: Let’s Not Be Too Hasty Here
Healthy Enneagram 5: Patiently waiting for a future that others anxiously await or look to others to bring about, a healthy 5 can confidently stay grounded in dispassionate facts that give themselves and others a sense of confidence. The healthy 5 will know when it's...
Enneagram 4: A Pandemic is Giving Us All the Feels
Stress and the Enneagram 4 Healthy Enneagram 4 A healthy Enneagram Type 4 is familiar with a wide range of emotions and knows how and when to express them in nuanced and helpful ways. A healthy 4 can turn those deeply felt emotions into creativity and beauty, or...
Enneagram 3: We Need a Good Dose of Inaction
Healthy Enneagram 3: Healthy Type 3's are hard workers whose strength we can rely on. They see a future we can't, and it's often optimistic. They can get more done in a short period of time than most other types while balancing their work life and their rest. Their...
Enneagram 2: We All Need a Little Help
Enneagram 2 Under Stress Healthy Enneagram 2: Healthy Enneagram Type 2's can name their own needs. They give freely of their love in whatever form the other person best receives it. They create a sense of safety where deep relationships form best. Unhealthy Enneagram...
Enneagram 1: The Imperfections of COVID-19
Enneagram 1's Under Stress Healthy Enneagram 1: A healthy 1 continually looks for ways to improve self and encourage others to improve. A healthy 1 takes ideas and organizes them thoroughly into actionable steps. Every 1 has the "inner critic," but when healthy, 1s...
Enneagram 9: Making Peace with COVID-19
Enneagram 9's Under Stress Healthy Enneagram 9: Healthy 9's are some of the better mediators around. They are able to see the complexities of their surroundings. They are flexible, which may appear to aggressive Enneagram numbers as being indecisive. Rather, healthy...