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You’re  at the height of summer and also at the edge of what comes next. Vacations and dorm room plans. Celebrations and back-to-school lists. Football practices in the morning, fireflies in the evening. If you feel the tension of being in two seasons at once, this episode is for you.

In this short, grounding episode, Amy offers a contemplative breath prayer for each of the nine Enneagram types anchored in Isaiah 43 and the ancient practice of pairing Scripture with breath.

This isn’t about forcing peace. It’s about interrupting the spiral, just for a moment, and remembering what’s true.

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Who can I trust? Is this community safe? Is this the leader they say they are?

Wholehearted Enneagram: A Year Through the Types | Type 6 | Episode 4 of 4

These aren't just anxious questions for the Enneagram Six; they're the constant, exhausting background hum of how a Six moves through the world. And nowhere does that hum get louder than in the church.

In this closing episode of Six month, Amy sits down with Sarah Jackson, licensed pastor, spiritual director, seminary graduate, and Type Six, for one of the most theologically rich conversations in the entire series. Sarah brings both her professional formation and her lived experience as a Six navigating church hurt, leadership dynamics, and the lifelong work of learning to trust God, community, and herself.

She talks about the Six's defense mechanism of splitting, how it quietly applies to God himself, and what it means to hold nuance instead of constantly dividing the world into safe and unsafe, good and bad. She introduces the grief practice that quiets the inner committee when nothing else will. She draws on Julian of Norwich, "all shall be well" as the deepest expression of what a Six most longs to believe. And she offers one of the most practical spiritual tools in the series: the welcoming prayer.

This is a beautiful close to a month that has asked a lot of the Six and offered even more in return.

In this episode:

• Why the Six is one of the hardest types to self-identify, and why the Six resists hearing descriptions of herself
• Church hurt through a Six lens on how to differentiate the institution from the people in it
• The Six's constant "vibe check" all in or deeply skeptical, with not much in between
• Performance community vs. genuine community and why the distinction matters so much to a Six
• Anger as anxiety in disguise, what Sarah's husband sees when she's scared
• Grief is the quieter of the inner committee and the most unexpected spiritual practice in the episode
• Splitting as the Six's defense mechanism and how it applies to God
• Julian of Norwich and the Six's deepest longing: "All shall be well"
• The welcoming prayer, a practical liturgy for releasing control and receiving love
• Moses, as the Six's biblical hero, was scared but went in anyway

Sarah Jackson is a licensed pastor, spiritual director, and Enneagram practitioner serving with her husband who leads the Communion of Saints church in Colorado Springs.

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What does the VVHG journey look like for a Six who has spent her career holding space for other people’s fear?

Wholehearted Enneagram: A Year Through the Types | Type 6 | Episode 3 of 4

In this episode, Amy talks with Gwen Sledge, a Wholehearted Coach, former nurse, and Type Six who knows from the inside what it’s like to be the steady, reliable, vigilant one... and what it costs. Gwen walks through the Victim, Villain, Hero, and Guide framework through a Six lens, drawing on her own story and her work coaching women who are ready to stop managing everything and start living from something deeper.

This episode is especially for the nurses, caregivers, and first responders in this community; the Sixes who have given their vigilance to everyone else and are ready to find out what groundedness feels like for themselves.

In this episode:

• The Six's loud inner committee and how it differs from the One's inner critic
• How the three Six subtypes present differently: social, self-pres, and counter-phobic
• The victim role: freezing, scenariating, and waiting for the second shoe to drop
• The villain role: anxiety projected outward, resentment, and relinquishing responsibility, then resenting it
• What it looks like when a Six steps into the hero — trusting discernment, coming back to center
• "Lord, I trust you, but I don't trust me," and why that's still a trust problem
• The guide role: holding space without gripping, and relinquishing an inflated sense of responsibility
• The lie most Sixes carry: "It's all up to me"
• "Fear is not the boss of me" — the truth statement that counters it
• What those who love a Six most need to hear: don't dismiss us
• A special word for nurses and caregivers in the Six community

You are braver than your fear. You don’t have to scan the horizon alone.

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What does a Six do when everything she’s built her security on starts to shift at once?

Wholehearted Enneagram: A Year Through the Types | Type 6 | Episode 2 of 4

In this episode Amy talks with Samantha Compton; a Type Six financial wealth advisor, entrepreneur, and former client whose story is one of the most honest portraits of Six courage you’ll hear. Samantha shares what it actually looked like to launch her youngest, step out of an institution to build her own business, and navigate community change... all while helping other people plan for their financial futures.

You’ll hear about:

• Why Samantha initially struggled to trust her own discernment when every external structure was shifting
• The breaking point that made her realize scanning for danger wasn’t the same as being safe
• What it took to step out on her own professionally when security was her deepest longing
• How community loss hit her Six core differently than she expected
• The practices that helped her move from anxiety to groundedness
• What she’d tell a Six who is standing at the edge of a transition that terrifies them

This isn’t about having it all figured out. It’s about discovering that the courage was there all along... even when the fear was louder.

God is bigger than your fear. You don’t have to scan the horizon alone

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Wholehearted Enneagram: A Year Through the Types | Type 6 | Episode 1 of 4

What does it look like to be the most loyal person in the room... and the most afraid?

Amy opens Type Six month with her co-teacher and spiritual director Deanna Sudom, exploring a type that is deeply misunderstood; often seen as anxious or suspicious when they are actually among the most courageous, committed, and trustworthy people you will ever know.

You’ll hear about:

• The Six’s core fear of being without support or trustworthy guidance, and how it shapes every relationship
• Why Sixes aren’t pessimists... they’re realists preparing for a world that has sometimes let them down
• The difference between phobic and counterphobic Sixes, and why they can look like completely different types
• How Sixes experience God, and where the search for a trustworthy authority meets the invitation to trust
• The gift of the Six’s loyalty, courage, and commitment to community
• A practice for Sixes who are ready to move from anxiety into grounded faith

Whether you’re a Six yourself or you love one, this conversation is an invitation: God isn’t the authority who will let you down. He’s the one who has never left.

God is bigger than your fear. You don’t have to scan the horizon alone.

Chat more with Deanna Sudom! https://www.capstonefreedomcoaching.com/

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Wholehearted Enneagram: A Year Through the Types Bonus Episode 6-7

Two years ago, Payge Wicks sat down with her mom right after graduating high school, a 17-year-old still figuring out who she was. Today, she's just finished her junior year in college, studying psychology in Phoenix, 18 hours from home, and she has something real to say about what it actually looks like to be a Seven in the most formative years of your life.

In this conversation, Amy and Payge pick up the thread they started two years ago, including the great Six vs. Seven question that Payge has been quietly wrestling with ever since and explore what personality awareness, faith, and genuine formation actually look like when you're living in a dorm, navigating roommates, building independence, and figuring out who God made you to be without your family right down the hall.

This is a different kind of Seven conversation. Not an expert looking back from a distance, but a Seven in the thick of becoming, with enough self-awareness to name what's actually happening.

In this conversation:

• The 6 vs. 7 question what made Payge wonder, and what living independently finally clarified
• How FOMO shows up in college in ways you might not expect, including why staying connected to home is genuinely a Seven thing
• The psychology of staying: how a Seven commits to something long-term without feeling trapped
• What Payge has discovered about God in the last two years that she couldn't access at 17
• Roommate dynamics through a Seven lens and how community can actually push a Seven toward growth
• Self-awareness as a practical tool: why knowing your type matters when your day feels inexplicably awful
• What Payge would tell every incoming college student and every parent watching their kid walk across that stage

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Wholehearted Enneagram: A Year Through the Types | Enneagram Seven | BONUS

When most people picture an Enneagram Seven, they think confetti cannons and perpetual motion. They do not picture a serious, introverted giraffe who goes a full seven days without leaving the house and runs three coaching calls a day by phone.

And yet! That's exactly who Alli Worthington is.

In this bonus conversation from Seven month, Amy sits down with author, business coach, and Enneagram Seven Alli Worthington for an honest, unscripted conversation about what the Seven actually looks like when she's self-preservation subtype, and what that means for how she works, leads, and builds community.

Alli shares the moment the Enneagram finally clicked for her on the plane. She was weeping over The Road Back to You and realizing that everything she had built her professional life around was designed to destroy an Enneagram Seven. She talks about what it means to achieve for freedom rather than for achievement's sake, how she has built a business that genuinely fits how she's wired, and why curating the right community has been the through-line of everything she's done.

It's a lighter, more conversational episode & a bonus in the truest sense. Pull up a chair, friend. 

In this conversation:

• What a self-pres Seven actually looks and feels like, and why it surprises people
• The serious giraffe vs. the confetti cannon, debunking the Seven stereotype
• How entrepreneurship became an accidental personal development journey
• The Road Back to You plane moment that changed everything professionally
• Achieving for freedom vs. achieving for achievement's sake the Seven's real motivation
• Building a business and a life that fits how you're wired, not how you think you should work
• Walt Disney as a Seven entrepreneurial hero
• The 2010 Hotel 71 piece of paper and what's still true 16 years later
• How to curate a community well and why the wrong community will destroy everything

Alli Worthington is a business coach, author, and host of the Alli Worthington Show.

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Wholehearted Enneagram: A Year Through the Types | Enneagram Seven | Episode 4 of 4

The Enneagram Seven's longing for satisfaction, fullness, and aliveness is real and God-given. But what happens when that longing drives a relationship instead of enriching it? And what does it look like when a Seven finally learns to receive what's already in front of them rather than planning for what's next?

In this closing episode of Seven month, Amy sits down with Christa Hardin, Enneagram expert, host of Enneagram in Marriage, fellow Seven, and author of the upcoming The Three Desires, for a conversation that is warm, specific, and full of the kind of insight that only comes from someone who has done deep personal work and spent years helping couples do the same.

Together, they unpack how the three Seven subtypes show up very differently in marriage and close relationships, where the Seven's fixation on planning creates friction even when it's well-intentioned, and what it looks like to let God meet the longing rather than letting the longing run the show. Christa also shares her own faith story — including a season of disillusionment with the church, how her husband quietly brought her back in, and why she eventually chose to build her platform inside the Christian space even when it cost her listeners.

This one is a beautiful close to Seven month.

In this episode:

• The Seven's core gift in relationship — and the planning fixation that can quietly undermine it
• How the three Seven subtypes show up differently in marriage: self-pres, sexual, and social
• Time hoarding, family preservation, and the self-preserving Seven who looks like a Five or Six
• The sexual Seven's depth and imagination — and the cautionary note that comes with it
• The social Seven's nurturing energy — and the blind spot for overcommitment
• What healthy satisfaction looks like for a Seven in a relationship — vs. what drives a relationship off course
• Going to the Five space — how solitude, gratitude, and reflection anchor the Seven
• Christa's faith journey — church wounds, a husband who opened the door, and why faith is her foundation for everything she builds
• What people who love Sevens most need to understand — and the inner critic nobody sees coming
• A preview of Christa's upcoming book, The Three Desires, releasing February 2027

Christa Hardin is the host of Enneagram in Marriage and author of The Three Desires: Reshaping Your Connection, Intimacy, and Teamwork in Your Marriage (February 2027).

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The Enneagram Seven's instinct is to keep moving. More plans, more options, more yes. Yet underneath it all is a quiet, exhausting belief that if they slow down long enough, something painful will catch up with them.

In this episode, Amy sits down with Heather Berg, a Wholehearted Enneagram Coach, trauma-informed practitioner, and Type Seven, to walk the Victim, Villain, Hero, Guide framework through the Seven's unique lens. Heather brings both her professional training and her own deeply personal story: betrayal trauma, a dark night of the soul, a season of chronic pain that literally stopped her in her tracks, and the retreat moment where Amy looked at her and said, "Heather, do you think you could be a Seven?"  and then something clicked that felt like meeting herself for the first time in years.

This episode is for every Seven who is tired of running and suspects there might be something worth finding if they stopped. It's also for everyone who loves a Seven and wants to understand what's really happening underneath the energy.

In this episode:

• The Seven's victim role, which can look like "monkey" mind, hypervigilance, and the longing to know who will look after me?
• Why Sevens can't outwit, outlast, or outplay pain, but what happens when they finally stop trying
• The villain role: self-abandonment and how the reframing that protects you can also hurt the people closest to you
• Heather's betrayal trauma story and the moment she realized she'd been MIA to her own kids
• Post-traumatic growth and the heart behind Heather's Created to Move coaching practice
• The fastest way to daybreak and why it means running toward the night, not away from it
• Big T, little T, and chronic T trauma, and why you don't have to have a dramatic story to feel lost
• How to love and support the Seven in your life

Heather Berg is a trauma-informed Wholehearted Enneagram Coach and founder of Created to Move.

Learn more here:https://www.createdtomove.com/ 

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Wholehearted Enneagram: A Year Through the Types | Type Seven | Episode 2 of 4

What happens when the Enneagram Seven's greatest superpower becomes the very thing keeping her from healing?

In this episode, Amy Wicks moves from host to guest, sitting in the heartseat as her spiritual director and friend, Deanna Sudom, leads the conversation. It's one of the most personal episodes in the entire series.

Amy shares how she finally recognized herself as a Seven, what she most wanted to avoid about it, and how her gift of reframing quietly became a form of spiritual bypassing, a way of rushing past pain that still needed tending. She talks about the year joy was her word, and how the Lord used it to form something far deeper and more rooted than she expected. About EMDR, grief, Dark Saturday, and the season, she sat in stillness for two to three hours at a time — not doing anything, just being held.

If you're a Seven who has ever wondered what it costs to slow down (and what's waiting on the other side), this conversation is for you.

In this episode:

• How Amy finally recognized herself as a Seven and why she quietly sat on it for a while
• The family member who made her not want to claim the type
• Reframing as a superpower and as a spiritual bypass, but learning the difference
• The year joy was her word, and what the Lord did with it
• What it actually felt like to slow down, grieve, and stay
• EMDR, Dark Saturday, and the U diagram
• Amy's season of stillness: waking early, sitting with an open Bible and a cup of coffee, being held
• Deanna's reflection on five years of walking with Amy and what growth really looks like
• A closing word to every Seven who has been told they're too much

Deanna Sudom is a spiritual director and co-teacher on the Wholehearted Enneagram Podcast.

Connect with Deanna: https://www.simplywholehearted.com/deanna-sudom

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