We're back for part 2! This episode continues an interview with my sister, Levette, who is a 9 on the enneagram, married to an 8.

• How we handle family conflict
• The enneagram as a tool to strengthen relationships
• The intensity of being a 9 with wing 8 behavior (9w8)
• Stubbornness and rage for a 9
• Not aware to feelings (feeling repressed) vs. Unproductive actions (doing repressed)
  • Enneagram stances include: 3s,7s,8s are feeling repressed, 1s,2s,6s are thinking repressed, and 4s,5s,9s are doing repressed (Click here for more)
• How your enneagram type impacts the time it takes to make decisions (i.e. tattoos)
• Why we love and NEED 9s

Kicking off the series with an interview featuring my sister, Levette. She is a NINE on the Enneagram. Type 9's are known to be the most laid back, easy going, unselfconscious number on the enneagram.

In part 1 of her interview, we discuss:

• The beauty of knowing the enneagram personally and professionally
• Why and how type 9s conserve their energy
• 9s as introverts or extroverts
• Shame from being in her shadow growing up
• Being more self-assured to understand the 9's core desire to know "YOUR PRESENCE MATTERS"

Stay tuned to part 2 of her interview when we discuss having wing 8 behavior, her marriage to an assertive and aggressive enneagram type, and more

In this episode, we dive into the final Fruit of the Spirit: Self Control (Temperance). Despite all we have access to in this world that impacts our feelings, emotions, actions, use of time and resources, etc., how can we honor God through self-discipline?

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• (DEVOTIONAL) Self-Control https://shereadstruth.com/2015/05/21/self-control/ 
• (VIDEO) Flip the Switch: Transformation Church https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW7xpxdavMw 

When in high stress situations, do you escalate them by bringing the same energy and going off? Or do you surrender your strength to God and live a life of meekness?

This episode dives into the idea of being meek and gentle, not that meekness is weakness, but that it's strength under control. We talk sacrificing purpose and unity to go slap off, and the lack of tools we often have to deescalate situations.

• She Reads Truth- Gentleness- https://shereadstruth.com/2015/05/20/gentleness/
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Ever find yourself doing something and having no idea why you do it? Listen as I share a recent experience where I actually became upset when someone simply did what I asked: gave me feedback.

Then take a short dive into the Enneagram pool as I share some of my biggest aha's from being an Enneagram 3 and how that played into my recent job interview blunder.

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Anyone else struggle with following through on your commitments? Do you start well and never actually finish? ME! Faithfulness is actually achievable with the help of the Holy Spirit. 

Don't think you struggle with faithfulness? If you struggle with tiredness, laziness, hopelessness, PROCRASTINATION, rationalization, apathy, or rebellion... you, too, could benefit from faithfulness.

Take a listen!

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I LOVE B2K and was SO excited for the Millennium Tour, but after the experience, I recorded this episode. It really got me thinking about this idea of "chasing nostalgia" and how so many of us fall prey to it. 

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Kindness and gentleness seem like the easy fruit, right? They're actually harder than we think. 

In this episode, Jameka shares this is the fruit she shows the LEAST! Perpetual kindness means forfeiting sarcastic wit and pettiness, especially when it doesn't build the other up. 

Listen as Jameka shares thoughts on kindness, showing yourself friendly, and the danger of introversion as an excuse to isolate.

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Hands up if you know sometimes the problem is YOU, not someone else. *raises both hands*

Continuing our discussion on patience, this episode covers:

1. Restraining your petty.

2. Fighting deflection and projection by listening instead of instantly responding

3. How Jesus practiced patience OVER and OVER with his disciples

and more.

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Whew! Patience. Longsuffering. How many of us have it? Ashley and Jameka had SO much to say about this fruit that the episode has to be divided into TWO parts. 

This episode covers:

1. How our generation has been set up to NOT be patient
2. Why avoiding someone only hurts you
3. How bearing fruit of the Spirit requires confrontation
4. Why we don't want to reap what will come from seeds of impatience and unforgiveness

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