Life Uninhibited - The Enneagram 6 Podcast
Episodes
Episode #68 - “We all need to see this!”
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The desire to connect over shared perspectives is a beautiful part of sixiness. The internal dysregulation that can occur when that is not happening ...
Episode #67 - All About Worry
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Worry is a coping mechanism to navigate uncertainty, anxiety, and angst. The goal is to have some control over our worry, so it doesn't run our ...
Episode #66 - Practice Makes Perfect....is BS, but it helps!
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Practicing anything does not make us perfect at it. However, practice IS required to get better and to have any skill work for us. Managing angst wh...
Episode #65 - What if they get mad? Loss of approval.
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I use a low stakes situation to walk through the components of a common problem for sixes, worrying if someone else is going to be ma...
Episode #64 - Sixiness in Action: A Case Study
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I break down a typical example of my adaptive strategies showing up and not only how I navigate it internally, but how I talk to mysel...
Episode #63 - Is this my sixiness or is it trauma?
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a question, I get asked a LOT. It shows up in conversations around type 6 often in Enneagram spaces. This is a delicate conversation with a l...
Episode #62 - Anxiety, Let’s Talk About It
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I dive into YOUR questions about angst, anxiety, and what in the world we can do about it! Helpful Links: If you're interested...
Episode #61 - Pillars to Sixy Mental Health
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What are the areas to focus on in your life to get to a healthy version of you? Well, I don’t REALLY know, BUT I have some ideas. Here are the main...
Episode #60 - Not all questions are created equal
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I reveal how the underlying beliefs we have impact that questions we ask. I show how, as sixes, we tend to reveal beliefs that disemp...
Episode #59 - Don’t Let Your Six Brain THINK Without Your Permission
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I talk about the importance of learning how to support past versions of ourselves at the level of thought AND feeling. Just doing one...
Episode #58 - Self Support is a non-negotiable skill
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There is no “health” without a strong, trusting, reliable, SUPPORTIVE relationship with ourselves. As sixes, what gets in the way and how do we o...
Episode #57 - Diving into Reactivity
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I’m back with Aaron Addonizio of Empathy Architects to dig into the topic of reactivity and how it affects sixes in their lives and relationships. A...
Episode #56 - A Sixy Check In For You
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I share something from inside my group coaching program that you can use to assess how you are doing in your life in 8 sixy specific a...
Episode #55 - Fear of Fear
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I try to pull apart the idea that sixes have fear of fear. How can we understand this idea in a way that is useful? How can we ...
Episode #54 - Hey Sixes… We make up a LOT of rules!
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I share an example of making room for feelings I did not want to feel! I also talk about all the rules we make up to live life by and...
Episode #53 - The Four Horsemen of the Sixy Apocalypse
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Listen in as I explore 4 automatic thought traps that catch sixes and what the antidotes are for these traps. Blame, Shame, Anxiety Spins, and Cynicis...
Episode #52 - The Passion of Six….aka, what about all that angst?
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I explore our relationship to feelings in general, but really unpack the passion of 6. The passion is the emotional vice of each numbe...
Episode #51 - The Missing Piece in Your Self Awareness Journey
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Doing self-awareness work without also doing self-compassion work is like being a Dr. who has the diagnosis and no bedside manner or capacit...
Episode #50 - Back to Basics….Wrapped in Compassion
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Self awareness without self compassion….isn’t actually going to get you anywhere. There is a tendency to wield the Enneagram against ourselves an...
Episode #49 - The Six Fixation, and Why We Should We Approach it Directly
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I revisit what the fixation of six is and why I think we can get so much movement directly addressing and learning to work with our th...
Episode #48 - How We Disempower Ourselves as Sixes
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As sixes, part of our strategy to avoid our core fears is to disempower ourselves in situations in our lives. Listen in as I break this down with a p...
Episode #47 - Sixes and Core Values
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sixes benefit from knowing their core values in so many ways. Listen in for the why, an example, and the HOW! VALUES WORKSHOP: https://www.krist...
Episode #46 - The Instincts! Subtypes of Type 6
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Each of us over-focuses on an instinctual strategy. Self-preservation, Social, and Sexual instincts are present in all of us to different degrees and ...
Episode #45 - Our Relationship to Uncertainty. It’s tricky!
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I explore the dichotomy that while we REALLY do not like uncertainty, we are set up to create a lot of it internally. Listen in to di...
Episode #44 - Your Six Brain Needs a Project!
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
New Years Resolutions are generally not a great idea in terms of building self trust, however, you can capture the energy of a new year by considering...
Episode #43 - Internal Truth Telling for Sixes
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When we take the time to slow down our automatic patterns and get real truthy with what is going on inside of us, we build a connection to a more comp...
Episode #42 - Let’s talk about Trifix!
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I had the honor of sitting down with Aaron Addonizio co-founder of Empathy Architects to discuss the ins and outs of Trifix. We cover the theory...
Episode #41 - Some Real Practices to Build Self Trust
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I go into 3 practices that can help you build awareness of your sixy strategies and simultaneously begin to build more self trust from...
Episode #40 - The Discomfort of Not Doing Your Strategy
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I explore why emotional awareness and growing a capacity to feel new feelings is so important in our journeys. We can figure out a lo...
Episode #39 - Fear, Love, Anger and Sixiness
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, Anastasia and Kristin explore the landscape of emotion in sixes with a focus on Love, Fear, and Anger. They explore healing mod...
Episode #38 - The Super Ego Message of Type 6
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I take us through some high level Enneagram teaching of type 6. It centers around the Super Ego Message of 6, “You are good or okay...
Episode #37 - Sixes and Curiosity
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Kristin and guest Emily Aborn discuss all things sixes and curiosity. What is it? What isn’t it? How does all this work together ...
Episode #36 - Your Inner Six Protectors
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I answer a listener questions and give an overview of some internal protector parts to be on the look out for as an Enneagram 6. Per ...
Episode #35 - The Passion and Virtue of Type 6
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do the passion of cowardice and the virtue of faith interact as sixes? What does it mean that the virtue can act as an antidote for the passion? ...
Episode #34 - Our Personality is Built Around Avoiding THIS
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This idea that we might or have done something to impact our OWN security or support system is a major threat to our living in a more Uninhibited way....
Episode #33 - Sixes and Self Support
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we take a closer look at what it means to be self supportive and self reliant as a six. I talk about practices for how to develop this...
Episode #32 - Other People's Brains
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Kristin and Abbi explore the amount of time and attention sixes give to what *might* be going on in other people's brains. What i...
Episode #31 - The “how” of feeling feelings even when they feel too big
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Kristin and Paula discuss the nuance around inviting and supporting our systems to do challenging things without shame. They also get ...
Episode #30 - How (and why) to Learn to Manage Your Attention
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I go out on a limb and explore the why behind the need to learn to manage our attention. I talk about in terms of science, quantum sci...
Episode #29 - In Which Kristin and Nicole Share Self-Scares
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve talked about how one of the type six survival strategies, our fixation, is to self-scare. In this episode, Kristin and Nicole share some of t...
BONUS: Feelings in Real Life
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus episode I take you into my own sixy system and how I am managing some big emotions in a situation in my life. I talk though the various ...
Episode #28 - What About All Those Feelings?
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are talking about feelings, our relationship to our feelings and how feelings are what drive so much of our lives as sixes. Developing a con...
Episode #27 - The Fixation of Type 6, How We Scare Ourselves
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we look at the enneagram of fixations, specifically, of course, the type fixation of cowardice. I take the lens of what does...
Episode #26 - Levels of Health….Sort of
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week I dive into the levels of health of type 6 as well as weave together some of the core pieces of Enneagram Basics. I cover passion, fixation...
Episode #25 - Unpacking the Sixy Strategy of Approval Seeking
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk through one of the most ingrained parts of the type six strategy: the ways we orient to authority in unconscious attempts to f...
Episode #24 - Present Time Orientation
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we discuss the theory of how sixes are present time oriented. This is confusing for sixes as our minds always seem to be in the past o...
Episode #23 - Emotional Realness
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we dive into the concept of emotional realness aka emotional reactivity and what this actually looks like in sixes. Sixes are emotion...
Episode #22 - A Day in the Sixy Mind: Accessing More Choice
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode I show what happens inside my mind on a particular day and how I manage my thinking, my emotions, and the doing of the things. ...
Episode #21 - An Exploration of Sixes and Anger
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Kristin and Scott explore the experience of sixes and anger. We share how very different sixes have experienced and are learning this...
Episode #20 - Six Sixy Lessons
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about taking the long view and building the capacity to break large challenges into bite size pieces in our minds. We build connectio...
Episode #19 - We are More than Thinky Thinkers
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listen in as Kristin and Sam discuss the importance of personal practice and understanding our own automatic patterns as avenues to experience more re...
Episode #18 - Decision Making for Sixes
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listen in as Kristin shares her process around a recent big decision and Stephanie shares decision making framework for sixes. Lots of gems in this o...
Episode #17 - Idealization: The Enneagram of Lies aka Sixes and Authority
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Kristin explores the complex relationship sixes have with their inner authority and subsequently outer authority. She also explores ...
Episode #16 - When Your Sixiness is Just The Thing; Leaning on Strengths
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Kristin and Laura discuss leaning on strengths and breaking free from the personal development hamster wheel of doom. They discuss how...
Episode #15 - What Does it Look Like When You Inhibit YourSELF?
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we are going to explore the various ways that sixy self-inhibiting shows up, as well as the scariest thought that keeps our anti-...
Episode #14 - Sixes, Connection, and Community
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, Kristin and Liora discuss the difficult realizations that can land on us when the things we think will finally bring us contentm...
Episode #13 - The Thinking Center
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Thinking Center Listen in as Kristin explores the importance of intentional relationship to thought. This is not an episode about CHANGING t...
Episode #12 - Sixes and Toxic Relationships
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sixes and Toxic Relationships In this episode Kristin and Misty discuss being in toxic relationships and some ideas around recovery after. Hope...
Episode #11 - Let’s Explore Projection
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we look at the origins of projection as a psychological theory and places to look for it in our lives, if we want to. We also explore ...
Episode #10 BONUS - The Tenderness of New Motherhood
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus part of my conversation with Nicole, we explore the complex waters of new motherhood and all the pitfalls therein. So much tenderness an...
Episode #9 - Sixes With Different Fixes
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listen in as Kristin and Nicole discuss becoming friends as adult 6's and all the internal stories and sixy things that can exist and how we manage th...
Episode #8 - Moving Forward in Uncertainty
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Kristin and Mandy explore counter-phobic six-ness, and what it’s like to feel pulled and guided in a direction you don’t understan...
Episode #7 - Sixes and Boundaries! Part 2
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I answer more of your questions around boundaries and focus on internal boundaries, setting boundaries without guilt, and how we can o...
Episode #6 - Sixes and Boundaries! Part 1
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this first part of 2 related to the extremely important conversation around boundaries, I define what they are, try to present a framework for expl...
Episode #5 - The Power of Foundational Beliefs
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Kristin and Sydney cover a range of topics that explore how our foundational beliefs about ourselves impact our experience of life as ...
Episode #4 - An Intro to Scrambled Centers
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Learn a bit about how I got here as a coach for Sixes, and let’s dive into the centers of intelligence and how we get them scrambled. Thinking, feel...
Episode #3 - Start Working WITH Your Enneagram 6 Brain
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kristin and Abbi dive into some practical ways you can start to work WITH your brain and not against it. This work is all about not only understanding...
Episode #2 - The Six Anti-SELF Action and Living Uninhibited
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to say Sixes “Self-Inhibit” and what is an Uninhibited Life? In this episode I explore some key ideas that inform my own life as...
Episode #1 - All The Sixy Things
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listen in as Kristin and Valerie give an overview of MANY sixy topics including, what is the core “problem” of 6. What is great about being a 6? H...