EnneaTalk Tuesday: Triggers

This week’s Enneagram Tuesday is all about Triggers. I discuss how the Enneagram can be used as a compass to help navigate how and why each type is triggered, what the motivations are behind these triggers, and how to use them as an opportunity for growth and resilience instead of running from the emotions and being fearful.

Listen to this episode to hear how each type might react to triggers, their underlying fears and motivations, how to recognize where you go when you are triggered, and how the Enneagram can help you find the beauty in the emotions it brings up.

Navigating my own triggers

I start off this episode discussing the two events that triggered me in the past couple of weeks and discussing how I was able to use the Enneagram to put the puzzle pieces together and navigate what I was feeling. I share how I used to lean into anger instead of being honest with myself about what I was avoiding.

Using weakness as your biggest strength

I go through each type and discuss what triggers might come up for each one, how to recognize when each type is feeling triggered, and how to pay attention to your feelings, get vulnerable, and learn and move forward with them.

I talk about how the very things that are your weakness can be your greatest strengths, just by knowing your triggers and letting them show where your biggest unhealed wounds are. I discuss how leaning into this can actually be a beautiful opportunity to project your life forward.

I share how the Enneagram can help you navigate your triggers, understand yourself better, and therefore have compassion and love for yourself to heal and grow.

Quotes:
0:57
The very things that you thought made you weak, are the things that actually make you strong.

1:41 Being triggered is a beautiful opportunity for growth.

12:32
It's kind of this beautiful puzzle, when you really welcome triggers in, it really gives you the opportunity to put the pieces together.

16:37
Having these triggers are allowing me to heal at the next level so that I can actually receive all the beautiful abundance of love, acceptance, friendship, partnership.

19:53
For the Enneagram 2’s- the Helpers, they are deeply rooted in being of service to others.

23:58
The 3 can take the unhealthy 9 when they're under stress.

26:49
Knowing that your big imagination is very possible, but staying present enough in the moment to not be attached to how to you there.

30:57
All of us are humans and we are all going to let each other down at some point because we are human and we are all so different.

36:55
Feelings last two seconds to two minutes.

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The goal for a nine is to not ignore what your body is telling you first.