Defending an image is a major cause of suffering for all of us, regardless of our personality type. Each of the nine personality patterns has its own set of dualistic ideas about good and bad, right and wrong, desirable and undesirable, worthy and unworthy. We strive to cultivate those desirable tendencies that we believe will make us worthy (“Worthy-Me”). We desperately want to avoid the undesirable tendencies at the other end of our personality spectrum, (“Not-Me”). There is an uncons...
Subscribe today (returning users login) to access more of this article as well as the entire Enneagram Monthly archive.
