I’ve lived with the Enneagram for over three decades, and these writings reflect how my relationship with it has changed over time through study, teaching, and lived practice. What began as an interest in personality became a deeper inquiry into essence, embodiment, and wholeness.
A five-step somatic framework for moving from personality patterning into the felt sense of essence.
A somatic and essence-centered reflection on the healing quality each Enneagram pattern most longs to recover.
A reflection on why Enneagram insight becomes more transformative when it is joined with the body’s lived experience.
A reflection on Type 7’s deeper longing for freedom, and how that quality can be felt as nourishment in the body.
A reflection on how nature can help us sense archetypal qualities of essence more directly, and how journaling can deepen that experience.
A reflection on how I understand essence in the Enneagram: one undivided essence expressed through nine archetypal qualities.
A reflection on the three instinctual subtypes as essential dimensions of nourishment, connection, and thriving.
A reflection on why identifying with more than one Enneagram type may reveal complexity, context, and a deeper movement toward wholeness.
A reflection on the Enneagram’s three centers and three orientations as embodied patterns of intelligence, energy, and human wholeness.
A reflection on why Enneagram transformation requires more than insight and behavior change, and how inner nourishment expands the path.
A reflection on how superficial typing and rigid identification can distort the Enneagram, and why an essence-first approach restores depth, dignity, and wholeness.
A reflection on how the deepest sense of lack within personality often points toward the very quality of essence the soul most longs to recover.
A reflection on the places, practices, and experiences that can help us sense essence more directly.
