10: The Enneagram microscope - How having the objective view in focus can give you the freedom you desire Lead with the Enneagram with Host Tracy O’Malley

The Enneagram Microscope

Welcome to the weekly bite sized snapshot of the most important tool in self-discovery and self-recovery—The Enneagram. In this episode I discuss just how complex and useful the Enneagram is and how it’s much more than Instagram memes and posts give it credit for. I walk through the different ways the Enneagram can be used and misused, and discuss how, when implemented correctly, it can be utilized as a microscope for internal growth.

If you are ready for transformation, to put in the work, and truly want to learn how the Enneagram can bring you to your authentic self, listen to these each week to start the journey back to you.

Authentic self vs. Adapted Self

Each of us has an authentic self, gifts, and strengths, as well as an adapted self that we develop based on our environment and circumstances. As we grow and are faced with trauma, we adapt in order to protect ourselves, building walls that inevitably can keep us disconnected from joy and love.

I talk about how the Enneagram can be used to break through the prison you have built, and how it is a roadmap to self-compassion—how you can’t have compassion and love for another person before first having it for yourself.

A Roadmap to Liberation

I share my own experience and how the Enneagram changed my life, and how to take the journey a little at a time in order to make a sustainable transformation. The more open you are to the process without rushing it, the more the changes will stick.

The Enneagram can help you find the way back to your unique soul path, and although there may be turbulence, my goal is to help you use this tool to transform your life and to make the moves that matter most: When you can see, hear, and understand another human being that is where real connection grows, and when you can do that for yourself, that is where you find freedom.

Quick Access To Quotes:
Its to be used as a tool to help you guide yourself to your authentic self. 2:10
Putting ourselves under our own enneagram microscope will see how we shine and sometimes how we don’t 5:45
The goal is to keep the objective view in focus 8:19
High involvement, low attachment 8:25
What you don’t know can't hurt you, ya but what you don’t know can hurt you because then you can’t grow. 8:25
This is to help you explore your internal landscape 8:40
It helps me from robbing myself from all the joys life has to offer 13:30
It can be unsettling to recognize the limitations and lies that you have contoured up and carefully constructed and to the persona that you have put out into the world. 13:40
When you know better, you do better 14:25
Embrace the turbulence 14:25
You are capable and equipped to transform even if your life feels like the biggest shit show you’ve ever seen. 16:55
When the student is ready, the teacher appears 17:10
“Most of you believe there are only 9 personality types when there are actually 27.” 1:16
“It’s not my job to dictate who you are, it’s my goal to help you explore who you are designed to be.” 2:24
“The ‘enneagram microscope’ reveals what the naked eye can’t see—the hidden wonders as well as the unpleasant realities of who we are” 5:14
“What you don’t know can hurt you, because then you can’t grow.” 8:34
“Compassion is the superpower of all superpowers.” 8:55
“I know you’re tired of making changes only to have yourself fall off the wagon.” 15:55
“My goal is to help you find the road back to that soul path that is uniquely yours.” 16:30
“You are capable and equipped to transform even if your life feels like the biggest shit show you’ve ever seen.” 17:07
“To become Bulletproof, it requires you to stand on the frontline of your life.” 19:07
“Know there is no deep knowing of a power greater than yourself without a deep knowing of yourself.” 9:06