Painting by Joan Baez It just seems to never stop, the heartbreak that is. Six weeks ago Putin’s armies invaded the Ukraine and proceeded to slaughter innocent men, women, children–relentlessly. I’ve watched daily the unfolding of this horror, daily feeling slugged in the stomach or knifed in the heart. Such an abomination. It is hard […]
We enter addiction recovery in a haze of suffering, guilt, agony, and shame. Like an out-of-control meteor, we come bursting through the doors, thrown onto the floor, the blood and guts of our confusion spilling every which way. It is not an easy or peaceful landing. And yet there is something that has called us
A Meditation on Mercy By Michael Naylor, M.Ed, CCS, LADC, CCPC, ET Copyright 2022, Version 2.0 My Father was a Type Six, demonstrating many of the tell-tale signs, a community gatherer, a devoted church-goer, a counter-phobic, anti-ego, fierce-as-hell competitor and humble team player, a life-insurance salesman making life safe and secure for everyone,
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A Memoir of Mercy By Michael Naylor, M.Ed, CCS, LADC, CCPC, ET Copyright 2022, Version 2.0
The Resurrection of the Type Two Soul by Michael Naylor, M.Ed, CCS, CPCC, LADC Director of The Maine Enneagram Center for Transformation and Well-Being / Copyright 2022 V.3 The Raw Childhood Imprints Marianna, a sensitive Type Two, is drowning in the darkness of her hellish childhood—terrified of her father, terrified of her grandfather. When they
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A Perilous Type Eight Journey to Level 9 by Michael Naylor, M.Ed, CCS, CPCC, LADC Director of The Maine Enneagram Center for Transformation and Well-Being / Copyright 2022 V.3 I had the deep pleasure of getting to know Allan in his fifteen-year journey to be a sober and clean man. A tall, lanky, James Dean,
Type Eight in Recovery—The Challenger By Michael Naylor, M.Ed., CCS, LADC, CCPC Copyright 2021, Version 1.2 “I will devour your half-heartedness.” ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Heart and Soul of Type Eight When men enter Mercy House rehab they meet Dominic, a tall, broad-shouldered, kick-your-ass-swaggering, confidant-as-God, pony-tailed Dominican. An addiction counselor with eighteen years clean from heroin,
