It takes a long time to know a person — to unbutton the costume of personality and unlace the corset of coping mechanisms in order to touch the naked soul. It is a process delicate and difficult, riven by anxiety and absolutely terrifying to both, requiring therefore great courage and great vulnerability — a process the hard-won product of which we call intimacy.
-m. popov
Being vulnerable equates to a close in
Something new and we believe quite useful for the wise practitioner. With my longtime colleagues Kristen Lindstrom and Ed Hsu, we took the Enneagram “personality” inventory test together and began conversation on the results and how we can use this tool for our own personal growth as well as useful tool in clinical practice.
Wisdom practices are learned from heartache and suffering and the eventual realization that to deepen our understanding of ourselves and others is through the shadow work, an intense introspective inquiry.
It is here where the beginnings of letting go of old stories that created the walled beliefs of self limiting behaviour.
IN this podcast you will watch and listen to Kristen as she artfully and bravely begin to unravel struggles to which all healers go through in practice and connect it to her own personal view of self in relation to the work at hand on a daily basis.
If you have questions or comments please share. Love to hear!
If you are interested in this particular test you can find it here.
https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/rheti/
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