Melissa Kircher

compassion and no shame and no judgment and no any of this of let's I love that you said your story it is about our stories right it's not just a type the type helps you give a pathway to tell your story and do so with more understanding and gratefulness for what kept you safe for so long these patterns they did so much good for you let's thank them

before we learn how to expand.

And I think

Doing inner work in that way and having something, a tool like the Enneagram that helps you get, that has complexity so that you can really get clear and you can, it's almost like a language that we can speak back and forth between each other that just goes, oh, oh.

If I know somebody's a four, I can speak to them in a way that they will resonate with and then we have a connection, right?

Then we can go deeper rather than I just speak to them like I would as a five person.

with my logical left brain kind of stuff, I meet people where they're at.

And that's, I think, a really great tool too for relationships and not only with ourselves, but with others.

It really brings more connection and understanding.

Yeah, there's a level of self-awareness that happens too when you understand yourself to that extent.

You speak about the great sides of it.

And just as there are great, there's obviously the flaws that come with each one.

We all have them.

We're all human.

That's part of the journey.

And when you learn your own flaws, like when something's kind of staring back at you being like, this is what you're not so great at.

Of course, there's an ego thing that happens there where you're like, whoa, don't tell me that.

That was rude.

But also this very big self-awareness, if you allow it to happen of just

This is who you are and it's not bad, but it is something that you could work on if you chose to and something you can be aware of.