Forty Days on Being a Nine

"Why do you hold back?"

Enneagram Nines are often asked questions like this by others who want to invite them to share their gifts. Marlena Graves describes her own experience with deciding whether to speak up: "I know what it's like to be run over and rendered invisible. I don't want to do the same to others." Nines are easy to be around because they seem to instinctively put others before themselves.

In these readings Marlena reflects on what it's like to be a Nine with a spirit of honest s...