The Passion of the Types

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,

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

“The problem in front of us all is how to live in a world that is being increasingly dominated by negative forces; how to become possible channels for transmission of positive forces. How not to get oneself caught into the stream of negativity. It seems easy enough to decide in one’s own mind that this

“Who put this brain inside of me?” – Charles Bukowski

The journey to our personal healing is much like a walk from the outer entrance to the labyrinth. Visually it looks like a short distance to the center but you discover that you go forward, back, left, right, all the way to the outer edge…not a straight line. Along the way, you will discover hidden

I rarely think about my sobriety in terms of years. For me, celebrating 25 years of sobriety is about reflecting back on “trying to do the next right thing” for the past 9,125 days or, more honestly, for the past 219,000 hours. It also means staying humble and grateful that, with the help of countless