My prior blog post suggested that facing ourselves honestly and showing up vulnerably with others are necessary for any of the nine Enneagram types to move toward health. “Yeah, but…” most of us immediately think. It used to be physically painful for me – as an “8” on the Enneagram…
A few days ago, I shared some of the unhealthy aspects of my Enneagram type, the “8.” If you want to know what your Enneagram type is, you can take a very brief test here. We’ve all experienced unhealthy levels of our type, but none of us needs to stay…
I’m an “8” on the Enneagram The powerful, dominating type. The type everyone loves to hate. At an Enneagram retreat a few years ago, we were put into groups according to our type. Each group had the opportunity to sit in the middle of a circle and communicate to the…
Yesterday Ed and I started our search for a church community in Eugene, a town we recently moved to. Based on a web search, we had a list of five spiritual groups that looked potentially interesting. Picking the first one on the list, we headed for their 10:30 Sunday service….
Our dear tai chi master, Dr. Paul Lam, and his partner Hazel invited us to join them as part of a small group on a two-week tai chi workshop/tour of China. Dr. Lam said he designed the trip to be “fun and serious, leisurely and exciting, like the yin and…