True Nature Alignment

All of us have strategies we believe, on some level, we need in order to be okay.

Some of us believe we have to earn goodness. Some believe we have to earn love. Others chase success, or security, or peace.

These strategies have protected us, but they also get in the way of our truest self-expression, the part of us that lives beneath the patterns.

We use them everywhere in our lives, and parenting has a way of bringing them to the surface.

The Enneagram is a map of these patterns: nine different strategies for being okay. When we can see our pattern clearly, and learn to be present in the moment it takes hold, its grip starts to loosen.

Awareness shows us the story. Presence gives us space to not live it.

Starting next week, I’ll share one type at a time through the lens of parenting, beginning with my own.🧡