In this episode, your hosts Lee and Caryn are expanding into "The Head Center." This thinking group, which is home to Enneagram Types 5, 6, and 7, is also referred to as the "Fear Triad." With these types, the head dominates, and they all take in life through their thinking and generally respond based on what their minds tell them to do. These types have a strong desire for safety, competence, and predictability.

All Head Center types deal with fear or anxiety. However, each type confronts or addresses fear/anxiety very differently.

Type 5s tend to be anxious internally about the outside world intruding and fear being competent, so they can try to isolate themselves or gather more information to be more prepared.

Type 6s long to feel safe but tend to be anxious and often explore worse-case scenarios. They can have trouble trusting their own inner judgments and often seek outside guidance or survey others in order to feel secure in their choices and alignments.

Type 7s tend to deny or push aside their anxiousness by always keeping their minds and bodies busy. They fear being deprived, bored, not having options, and being in pain.

In this three-episode series, we'll break down how each of the Centers of Intelligence teaches us about our habitual responses or how we filter information: Instinctual (Gut/Body), Feeling (Heart), and Thinking (Head).

In this episode, your hosts Lee and Caryn will introduce you to the Enneagram's Three Centers of Intelligence. This week we're kicking off with "The Gut" or "Body Center." This instinctual group, which is home to Enneagram Types 8, 9, and 1, is also referred to as the "Anger Triad." The body center copes with their dominant emotion of anger in the way they respond to gut feelings or physical sensations. Type 8s express their anger outwardly, 9s deny, push aside, and/or likely feel threatened by these emotions, and 1s repress, try to control, and/or turn these emotions inward.

We hope you enjoy this banter episode because we go a little all over the place! Since the gut/body triad is the instinctual group,  we briefly sidebar into talking about the three Instincts:  Self-Preservation, Sexual, and Social. We will definitely be exploring these complex instincts again and in more depth in future episodes. In this three-episode series, we'll break down how each of the Centers of Intelligence teaches us about our habitual responses or how we filter information: Instinctual (Gut/Body), Feeling (Heart), and Thinking (Head).

In this episode, your hosts Lee and Caryn will introduce you to the Enneagram's Three Centers of Intelligence. This week we're kicking off with "The Gut" or "Body Center." This instinctual group, which is home to Enneagram Types 8, 9, and 1, is also referred to as the "Anger Triad." The body center copes with their dominant emotion of anger in the way they respond to gut feelings or physical sensations. Type 8s express their anger outwardly, 9s deny, push aside, and/or likely feel threatened by these emotions, and 1s repress, try to control, and/or turn these emotions inward.

We hope you enjoy this banter episode because we go a little all over the place! Since the gut/body triad is the instinctual group,  we briefly sidebar into talking about the three Instincts:  Self-Preservation, Sexual, and Social. In this three-episode series, we'll break down how each of the Centers of Intelligence teaches us about our habitual responses or how we filter information: Instinctual (Gut/Body), Feeling (Heart), and Thinking (Head).

Hello and welcome to the first episode of the Enneagram Typecast! In this intro episode, you'll hear from your hosts Lee and Caryn about how they both discovered the Enneagram and their Enneagram Types.