mentor and master Enneagram teacher Suzanne Stabile joins me in discussing Helen Palmer’s chapter on Type 2

podcast cover photo by Inti St Clair

end music is “Anyone Who Loves Me” by Charlotte Cardin

Friend and type 1 Eliza Hook joins me in reading and discussing the chapter “Point 1: The Perfectionist” in Helen Palmer’s book “The Enneagram: Understanding Yourself and the Others in Your Life”

end music is “Ful Stop” by Radiohead

Type 9 —Going with the Stream, the passion for comfort, psychological pachydermism

End music is “Can’t Believe The Way We Flow” by James Blake

TYPE 8 - Coming on Strong. Spicy! “The over-development of action in the service of struggling in a dangerous world….the impoverishment of tenderness…” End music is “The Distance” by Cake

Feeling spicy

Type 7 — Opportunistic Idealism. The rebellious diplomat. The Variety glutton. End music is Peggy Lee singing “Is That All There Is”

Type 6 —The Persecuted Persecutor

or we prefer the Problem Solver / Problem Seeker

End music is Courage to Change by Sia

Type 5 — Seeking Wholeness Through Isolation.

End Music is Solitary Daughter by Bedouine

Type 4 — Seeking Happiness Through Pain

Intro music is “Constant Craving” by K.D. Lang and out music is “Total Eclipse of the Heart” by Bonnie Tyler

We discuss Type 3 and Chapter 3 of Claudio Naranjo’s book Ennea-Type Structures. Naranjo titles this chapter “Success through Appearances” We liked his use of the word “simulator.” And we liked his very succinct phrase “substitution of appearance for self.”

Out music is “Adaptive Behavior” by by Jay Denham

I used the word “guru” facetiously in referring to Sam Harris and my great pleasure in using his app “Waking Up.” I love that man.

Ennea-Type 2 Egocentric Generosity

End music is “Save Myself” by Ed Sheeran