Type Five— The Kind Wizard “If we truly use the Enneagram to see through our beliefs about ourselves we begin to feel more grounded and confident, more kind and compassionate, and more clear and discerning. Our centers are coming online, and we are more able to live the truths we have come to understand.” —RUSS […]
Type Four— The Creative Alchemist “Don’t give up. What often follows endarkenment—if you continue your inner work—is equal enlightenment.” —MICHAEL NAYLOR The Type Four, often called the romantic, the individualist, the creative alchemist, is endowed with a deep sensitivity to the emotional states of others and themselves. He sees the hidden suffering that others have
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Addiction. Recovery. Enneagram. Thoughts to Ponder Traveling the Labyrinth The Dynamics of Relapse Patterns, Recovery, Addiction and the Enneagram: Some Thoughts to Ponder—by Michael Naylor, M.Ed, CCS, LADC, CCPC, Director of the Maine Enneagram Center for Transformation & Change. From The Alchemy of the Enneagram in Transforming Addiction. Copyright 2023 www.enneagrammaine.com/Addiction/ The
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Foreword by Russ Hudson The popular Enneagram has become familiar to millions of people, and it is no longer a surprise to learn that a new friend or acquaintance knows his or her Enneagram type. Many are reading online threads and watching podcasts to learn their “number.” But even as the popularity of the Enneagram
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I am so happy to report that at last, after what feels like a hundred years of editing, my book, The Alchemy of the Enneagram in Transforming Addiction, will be published on Amazon, November 15. I am so very grateful to my friend, colleague, and teacher for his beautiful forward. Foreword BY RUSS HUDSON The
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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 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,
The Dynamics of Relapse Patterns, Recovery, Addiction and the Enneagram: Some Thoughts to Ponder—by Michael Naylor, M.Ed, CCS, LADC, CCPC, Director of the Maine Enneagram Center for Transformation & Change. Copyright 2021 www.enneagrammaine.com/Addiction/ The following identifies some of the patterns, pitfalls, and misunderstandings that contribute to an individual relapsing back into their substance
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A Perilous Type Eight Journey to Level 9 by Michael Naylor, M.Ed, CCS, CPCC, LADC Copyright 2021 V.2 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, good-looking, smart-as-God guy, who was intensely aware of the political misuse
Powerful movie on the nature of addiction and it’s far-reaching effects, including the destruction of the earth.
