Know Yourself Better — Anxiety, Enneagrams & the Tools That Actually Help

Know Yourself Better — Anxiety, Enneagrams & the Tools That Actually Help

From Sage Sisters by Anne Pizzuti and Kate Doerksen

May 5, 2026 · 55 min · Episode 78

About this episode

The episode discusses anxiety management tools, the Enneagram, and personal energy tracking for better self-understanding.

We are talking about something we get asked about a lot — anxiety management and the tools that are actually working in real life. Not the generic advice. The real stuff. This week we dig into what Simple, Gentle, Easy looks like as a daily practice — how to recognize when you are in a hard season and intentionally calibrate toward content, conversations, and moments that bring your nervous system down rather than up. Kate shares the daily tracking tool she uses to rate her own energy and how it has changed the way she moves through hard days. And then we go deep on the Enneagram — specifically how knowing your own type and the types of the people closest to you can be one of the most powerful tools for anxiety management, patience, and self understanding you will ever find. We talk about our own types: Type 8 wing 7 — the Challenger with a Enthusiast edge — and Type 3 wing 2 — the Achiever with a Helper heart — and what it looks like to work with those energies instead of against them. Knowing your own type and the types of the people closest to you changes everything. It builds patience, it builds grace, and it genuinely helps you show up better for yourself and everyone around…

People in this episode

Hosts: Anne Pizzuti, Kate Doerksen

Topics covered

  • anxiety management
  • Enneagram
  • self understanding
  • daily practices
  • energy tracking

Keywords

  • anxiety
  • Enneagram
  • energy tracking
  • self understanding
  • daily practices

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