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Childhood Wounds

Childhood Wounds Spirituality
November 26, 2024February 26, 2025

The Sacred Enneagram – Nature or Nurture?

So where does our Enneagram type come from? How is it formed within us? The Enneagram’s nine ways or nine types describe the raw...

by Christopher L. Heuertz
Childhood Wounds Understanding the Enneagram

Our World View: The Stories We Tell Ourselves as kids

The stories we tell ourselves as kids are the partial, somewhat distorted worldview we adopted when we were young based on our dominant Enneagram...

by Monica Hunter October 24, 2024October 25, 2024
Childhood Wounds Passions Type Insights Understanding the Enneagram

The Regret of the basic fault:

Healing the Original Wound with Psychoanalytic Insight and Mourning A Response to the Work of Antonio Barbato Carl Marsak “If the flesh came into...

by Carl Marsak June 4, 2024June 3, 2024
Childhood Wounds Instincts and Subtypes

Ego, Essence and Instincts, Today

Antonio Barbato I have stated in The Enneagram of the Originary Wound that, according to the Enneagram of Character Types or Personalities (hereinafter ET)...

by Antonio Barbato October 1, 2020September 12, 2023
Childhood Wounds Therapy and Counselling

Trauma, Choice, and Paradise Lost

The impact of the Enneagram, from its significant beginnings with the publication of the first book in 1984 (by Maria Beesing, Robert Nogosek and...

by Francis J. McGarry May 1, 2020September 12, 2023
Childhood Wounds Understanding the Enneagram

You’re just like your mother: A study of integrational personality type

A question which arises frequently in Enneagram gatherings is the extent to which Enneagram types cross generations. Is there an association between the Enneagram...

by Dora Levinson & Jim Levinson May 1, 2020September 12, 2023
Childhood Wounds Family Dynamics

How Compassion Helps Us Reimagine Childhood Wounds

Over the years, my approach in teaching type has been framed by two things: how our imperfect early holding environments shaped our sense of...

by Christopher L. Heuertz February 1, 2020February 26, 2025
Childhood Wounds Family Dynamics Personal Growth/Self-Development

About My Country of Origin & E-Point

Anne Griffin “All their wars are merry and all their songs are sad” - Ballad of the White Horse. This was how G. K....

by Anne Griffin February 13, 2013November 16, 2023
Childhood Wounds Education Personal Growth/Self-Development Relationships Spirituality

Seeing your child

“Love the child in front of you, not the one in your mind.” I don’t remember where or when I first saw this quote,...

by Barbara Whiteside September 28, 2009October 18, 2023
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