The Enneagram Guide to Surviving (and Understanding) Your Family This Summer
About this episode
Sandy explores how the Enneagram shapes our experiences with family during summer visits and offers insights and exercises for greater awareness and compassion.
You've done the work. The therapy, the journaling, the coaching, maybe you've had a few real breakthroughs. And then summer rolls around. And so does the inevitable trip home to see your family, friends, and people from your past. And it feels like all of your hard work just goes right out the window. Why does this always happen??!? In this episode of Beyond the Type, Sandy answers that question, explores why outdated versions of ourselves seem to show up uninvited, and how our Enneagram type (and the types of the people we grew up with) shape that whole experience of "going home". In this episode: Why your nervous system doesn't read a calendar (and why that matters when you walk into your childhood home) How Enneagram Types 4, 5, and 9 relate differently to the past, and what that means for nostalgia What it's like growing up with (or being) a Type 1, Type 2, or Type 6 How big, future-facing energy (Types 3, 7, 8) shows up in family dynamics Three exercises to bring a little more awareness to your next visit home, and why naming things (your fears, your hopes, what "role" you playing when you were younger) is important Sandy also stresses the…
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