Enneagram Empowerment: Discover Your Personality Type and Unlock Your Potential

by Laura Miltenberger

Overview

Unlock your inner potential with the enneagram.

The enneagram, a personality assessment tool with sacred roots, offers an opportunity to improve your life and relationships through self-awareness and understanding of others. Based on nine core personality types, the enneagram reveals how your personality type and its associated traits can influence your relationships, work habits, and goals. With simple explanations and illustrations, Enneagram Empowerment gives you the tools to transform.

  •   Identify your enneagram type
  •   Learn about the defining characteristics of each type
  •   Find out how your personality traits can influence your daily habits and interactions
  •   Discover how to embrace the strengths of your type and overcome your weaknesses
  •   Improve your relationships by deepening your understanding of others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781615649815
Publisher:	DK
Publication date:	03/09/2021
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	1,086,602
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Laura Miltenberger is the co-creator of XO, Enneagram, a platform for improving mental and physical health by practicing intentional and personalized self-care with the enneagram. She is a holistic health coach who uses the enneagram as a tool to help her clients find more self-awareness and insight. In 2019, she published My Ennegram Journal, a tool for guided writing and personal growth. Follow her on Instagram @xoenneagram (37.6K followers) or visit xoenneagram.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

Part 1 Enneagram Basics

What is the enneagram? 12

What are the nine enneagram types? 14

Stress type and security type 18

Wings 19

Using the enneagram for empowerment 20

How to find your enneagram type 23

Quiz: What's your type? 24

Getting to know the enneagram types 27

Type 1 The Visionary 28

Type 2 The Connector 32

Type 3 The Luminary 36

Type 4 The Artist 40

Type 5 The Philosopher 44

Type 6 The Advocate 48

Type 7 The Explorer 52

Type 8 The Warrior 56

Type 9 The Diplomat 60

Part 2 The Enneagram and Self-Empowerment

Start with self-compassion 66

Respond mindfully to stress 68

Live out your strengths 70

Empowered thinking 74

Negative thinking traps 76

Empowered thinking by type 78

Live by your values 88

Common core values 92

Self-care for each type 94

Part 3 The Enneagram and Relational Empowerment

Relationship empowerment 106

The three subtypes 108

Subtypes and relationships 112

The three stances 116

What are boundaries? 118

What can you control? 120

The compliant stance 122

The withdrawn stance 124

The assertive stance 126

Setting healthy boundaries 128

The three centers of wisdom 132

Head, heart, and body 134

Centers of wisdom and relationships 136

References 140

Index 141

Acknowledgments 144

About the Author 144

Editorial Reviews

03/01/2021

Miltenberger's debut is written in accessible yet thorough language, incorporating concepts sometimes left out of introductory works, and it has a beautiful, decorative layout. It includes a short quiz, plus additional callouts and questions to help readers find their personality type, although it stresses that finding one's type takes time. It has an index and a brief list of bibliographical references that includes books not only about the enneagram but also about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and works by authors like Carl Jung, David Burns, and Martin Seligman. Miltenberger has co-created a popular Instagram account dedicated to wellness using the enneagram and published a journal for using the enneagram for self-care. VERDICT This book is an attractive introduction to a personality test that references mainstream popular therapeutic concepts and emphasizes self-care. Readers attracted to personality tests for personal enrichment will be interested.—Nancy H. Fontaine, Norwich P.L., VT

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