Why I Wish My Parents Had Known the Enneagram

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I grew up as the oldest of four children to very young parents. Let me say from the outset that if I had had children at the age of 20, I would have ruined them, for sure. There is much goodness that comes from youth, but self-awareness isn’t always at the top of that list. And, frankly, there were very few people who had ever heard of the Enneagram in the 1970s. The Enneagram is an ancient wisdom tool that gives us a very useful framework for understanding our underlying motivations, our core fears, our worldview and our patterns of thinking, feeling and…