Very insightful. I’m honest to say I didn’t really understand what enneagrams were about. Makes me curious to take the test! I recently took a Compass test for work and that was helpful in understanding why one of my peers acts like she does! And the reminder to use it only as a tool is spot on. As always, I learn from you. Take care and enjoy those grand babies!
I'm an enneagram 7 and LOVE the enneagram. I hate conflict as much as you probably 😬😬 I agree like you stated, the enneagram is a tool designed to help us; to see the box we’re in and how to get out. People have told me that it’s putting them in a box and sadly I believe those messages come from all the memes on social media that are created based on stereo types of each number. We are SO MUCH MORE. God created us as so much more with many layers that make us uniquely us. The enneagram helps us see our selfishness and sin tendencies and has the potential to point us to the cross by exposing our need. Something we’re not too quick to see. Thanks for writing this!
Sheesh, cousin. I'm sitting here nodding my head to all of this. And your explanation helped me see why my husband is both an 8 and a 9 (which is how his test came out). He doesn't like to be controlled AT ALL, and he also hates conflict. (And I'm just sitting here in my little Enneagram 5 corner, taking in allllll the information.)
Very insightful. I’m honest to say I didn’t really understand what enneagrams were about. Makes me curious to take the test! I recently took a Compass test for work and that was helpful in understanding why one of my peers acts like she does! And the reminder to use it only as a tool is spot on. As always, I learn from you. Take care and enjoy those grand babies!
Great article/insight as usual. The part about not wanting to be controlled hit me like a ton of bricks.
Maybe you’re an 8?? You should read The Road Back to You and find out!
I will, thanks
I'm an enneagram 7 and LOVE the enneagram. I hate conflict as much as you probably 😬😬 I agree like you stated, the enneagram is a tool designed to help us; to see the box we’re in and how to get out. People have told me that it’s putting them in a box and sadly I believe those messages come from all the memes on social media that are created based on stereo types of each number. We are SO MUCH MORE. God created us as so much more with many layers that make us uniquely us. The enneagram helps us see our selfishness and sin tendencies and has the potential to point us to the cross by exposing our need. Something we’re not too quick to see. Thanks for writing this!
Sheesh, cousin. I'm sitting here nodding my head to all of this. And your explanation helped me see why my husband is both an 8 and a 9 (which is how his test came out). He doesn't like to be controlled AT ALL, and he also hates conflict. (And I'm just sitting here in my little Enneagram 5 corner, taking in allllll the information.)
Haha! Technically he is either an 8 or a 9. You can only be one. The other number is his wing.