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I can’t tell you how often I hear someone say, “That describes me exactly except for __________”

Often, what is inserted at the end is all the amazing traits that typically accompany an Enneagram type or all the less desirable traits that typically accompany an Enneagram type.

Here’s the thing: there is always an invitation to self-observe.

Once you start looking, you might start to see things about yourself that you haven’t seen before.

Your type holds both your gifts and your liabilities. Unless you see them, you can’t grow them or use them to reveal even more about yourself. All in service of your own growth.

Don’t believe it?

Read my latest blog and spend a week self-observing. It might only take a day, honestly.

There is so much to be gained from this work. I’m inviting you into it in this writing.

Link is in my bio!

Holding space: the field, energy, listening, uncon

Holding space: the field, energy, listening, unconditional positive regard

Advice: power, pity, unsolicited, thinking, not listening

There is room for both but ask for exactly what you want.

I’d love to hear what you notice!

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#holdingspace
#thefield
#unconditionalpositiveregard
#ask
#rememberwhoyouare
#whenyouknowbetteryoudobetter
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I sometimes hear, “I said that/did that because

I sometimes hear, “I said that/did that because ….” and you’re sure-as-shootin’ that that’s why.

Try this: compare what’s happening to a previous situation that was similar.

As I drove Hattie to the vet today, I wondered if she’d come home. I was tearful and grieving. The truth is, I’m already grieving the day we’re told that she’s fought long enough. She’s had a loving yet medically hard life.

And then it occurred to me that the morning lacked
🤦🏽‍♀️demanding
🤦🏽‍♀️frenetic activity
🤦🏽‍♀️a need to control
🤦🏽‍♀️bossy-sauce

I just did the next right thing and cried my way through it. I did consider letting people in on my grief but I’m not there yet. Except I’m saying it here, so maybe. Baby steps.

I’m inviting you to do the same. You haven’t always been this way. Chances are, you can compare your response today to something else and see a difference. That will tell you something about your levels and your inner work will provide you a next direction to explore. The Emneagram makes it really clear: it’s geometry. It’s powerful. Once you see it you can’t unsee it.

She’s been sick for a few days and I’m noticin

She’s been sick for a few days and I’m noticing how much she just wants to be close to me.

It reminds me of our need as humans to receive nurturing. I used to think that we needed food, water, air … yes.
But did we really need love? Or was that just something nice to have?

I think at some level I thought love was a bonus. Coming from this place, accepting love is difficult. You can’t see all the ways people are loving you, all the while things like

❤️Receiving gifts
❤️The warmth of another person
❤️And sometimes physical affection

Are hard to accept; and you eventually stop seeing all the ways people are trying to love you, despite the fact that it is, in fact, happening.

What I’ve learned is that love isn’t a weakness; it’s a human instinct. It’s a need. It’s a given. It lives inside each of us.

An unheld baby will die. Being nurtured and loved is essential.

When you can’t see the love bestowed on you, you end up feeling

💔Unloved
💔Uncared for
💔Unwelcome

and you might even make others feel this way, too. Like they owe you something. Or they have to earn your love and affection. You get ugly in this way while blaming others for not loving you.

It’s a messy cycle.

Imagine if we were all like Hattie and just snuggled up with each other when we needed a hug, some lovin’, or a little extra something.

Without a story, we just ask and receive. I love this gal. She makes it all so easy.

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