Big Hormone Enneagram

We’re bringing the pain to rejection types. How penetrating the other becomes the replacement for connection. — (2:08) The penetration and leverage of rejection is a possession of the other — (4:25) Riffing on what sexual 8 possession really means / all the rejection types are doing possession through their centers — (11:06) Possessing the other becomes a replacement for the connection the rejecti...

Ok, fine. Wings are back with Alexandra. For now. — (1:47) Insights from Josh’s type 1 interview with Alex /Putting the gut back into the 1’s frustration  — (8:15) Burning frustration and 9 vs 4  — (20:48) 1s are very rare / the distribution of types we’ve typed — (25:33) 1w9 keeps the ideal more in the abstract / 1w2 brings the ideal into people’s hearts and out into the world — (30:39) 1w2 is mo...

We’re continuing our discussions on rejection. This time with the Enneagrammer/DAA typing team riffing on some new insights. — (6:22) Lever points and what being indispensable means to a rejection type / Joseph’s impression of feeling used by rejection types — (9:47) Emeka’s analogy of rejection types as limited persons born with missing limbs — (15:38) Frustration is in relation/reaction to an id...

We’re back to explore more missing pieces blindspots. But first, Sophie joins us to discuss upcoming  Fourth Way talks organized by her and John’s group. — (29:43) Exploring various polarities and opposites — (36:43) John’s body last vs Alexandra’s heart last — (41:07) The difference between using a  polarity to grow vs using someone to outsource the needs of a missing piece — (47:34) You must ide...

We’re penetrating the untouchables this week. Strap in for a meandering dive into what rejection types are really up to. — (16:32) The rejection separateness in sexual 8 display /Rejection types having a fractional sense of personhood — (20:52) The micro-disengagements of rejection types / the intellectual intensity of 5s — (27:17) DG’s instinct overlap schema for each rejection type — (30:17) The...

Wings are back with Alexandra. This week, the wings at the crown. — (11:44) Overview riffs on nine wings / 9w8 is meaty — (18:01) The 8-wing gives 9w8 permission to be more dissociated and messy — (28:13) 9w1 has tension giving itself permission to relax / sensitive refined relaxation — (31:10) 9w1’s often mistype as 4 because of their frustrated refinement and fussiness  — (36:00) The archetypal...

The instinctual blindspot ain’t the only one you need to integrate. We explore how certain types, centers, and qualities that are missing in us become shadows. — (6:42) How we’re attracted to those that embody typological qualities we’re missing — (11:53) We’re drawn to and most affected by our last weakest center — (15:40) Unaddressed blindspots become unconscious demons and quarter life - midlif...

We haven’t deserted y’all. Coming live to you from Brooklyn, NY answering your AMA questions. And we’ve got a small live audience with us. Link to the live video on Youtube: https://youtu.be/plnJ9a1pFUA — (8:30) We’re all mistyped — (9:55) Yes, you’re the toxic one if your 9 has checked out — (11:58) Self-pres 9s carrying the weight of the world — (15:44) 9s being mean and dramatic but nice in dif...

We’re back at it again with wings, starting with the most lovable 8s. — (18:14) Intro to the body center and its purpose  — (20:28) 8w9 is the godfather/godmother — (27:30) 8w9’s attachment wing makes them more controlling and sensitive to disrespect — (32:23) Positive types fuel the immovable ego agendas of 8 and 1 — destruction and order — (35:31) The lovable perfection of 8w7 — (41:06) How to d...

We went off the deep end to explore the upside down hexagram triangle and David’s reflections between hexad and attachment. — (12:08) Recapping what 3/6/9 represent for humanity vs the hexagram triangle — (16:14) The hexagram triangle is the upside down of the 369 triangle — (18:06) DG’s reflections and how the hexad types types are born of the attachment types (3>7/8, 6>1/2, 9>4/5) — (26:33) The...

Birthday girl Alexandra CQ is here to bestow on us her insights on wings. Lots of food for thought. — (5:23) Misconceptions about wings from various schools of the enneagram — (9:00) Balanced wings aren’t a thing but you can sometimes access your other wing — (10:38) 8w9s are more attached to the position of control than 8w7s — (12:03) What happens with hexad types with attachment wings — (14:30)...

The Enneagrammer team explores why learning how to type is a must. — (5:00) Learning how to type is a requirement for applying the enneagram — (9:14) ‘Only you can type yourself’, as if you’re conscious of your *unconscious* motivations — (12:30) To use and apply the enneagram you have to first start with accurate observations of how it applies — (16:34) Typing is a practice of observing distincti...

Bouncing back into the swing of things with a light loveline.  — (1:27) Riffing on the spiritual role of the enneagram and inner work in society — (9:06) New beginnings applying the discoveries from the last year — (20:44) Can the enneagram be used widely long term as a developmental tool? — (22:17) Reasons why it’s unlikely the enneagram undiluted will ever become a mainstream hit — (24:36) Sherw...

Allow us to reintroduce ourselves. Coming to you live from Nothingville, Virginia. For the first time, watch the video version of this episode on our youtube page: https://youtu.be/wk62CguaO8k — (2:11) Our response to the responses to the Ian Cron Episode — (7:25) Reintroducing ourselves as a group that’s both irreverent and centered on inner work — (11:25) The approaches to inner work you prefer...

We’re picking up where we left off with Dave Powers of objectivepersonality.com, exploring similarities between OPS and the enneagram. — (1:39) Function animals cont’d with John’s play last — (6:57) How working on the last animal is similar to integrating the instinctual blindspot, and how to work on sleep and consume as last animals — (15:47) How to work on the play and blast last animals — (26:0...

Dave Powers of objectivepersonality.com is with us to dive into what the OPS system has to offer and explore its inner work similarities with the enneagram. — (5:49) Dave tells us the story of how Objective Personality got started — (10:40) How mapping Jung’s 8 functions to Tony Robbin’s human needs gave birth to the OPS coins — (19:32) Observers vs Decider talk and the life paths and issues eithe...

This week we have on special guest Ian Cron, author of the Road Back To You. We’ve put aside our differences and tried to come to an understanding.  — (5:10) Introduction to Ian Cron and his work — (8:49) Love and compassion are what makes us human — (15:23) 4s are focused on the dark but are also envious of your happiness and light — (22:44) We make amends for #nota4 and the emotional psychologic...

This week Emeka and Alejohndra are discussing the Netflix doc, The Tinder Swindler. The rest of crew has been held hostage by our road back to you haters in Prague. Please paypal $500 to bhepodcast@gmail.com or David and Nancy will die. Love you babies forever. — (7:58) Overview/Summary of the premise and why this story is compelling from the POV of the enneagram — (13:29) Attachment is the fundam...

Nancy hosts a bangin attachment talk with Alexandra and Courtney. Some magic happened in this Bermuda Zone. — (3:24) Contrasting and comparing attachment to disconnect experiences from the perspective of 3/6/9 — (10:38) 3&9 vs 6 differences on revealing their location  — (18:54) Round robin impressions of the other attachment types — (21:18) What’s scary about 9 for 3&6 — (24:16) What’s scary abou...

The long awaited episode on John’s Egypt obsession is here. John has returned from the holy lands with much to share on the pyramids. — (6:57) Why we should give a f**k about Egypt? — (14:01) Egypt requires us to be present in all three centers  — (16:25) John Anthony West and the origins of symbolist egypt — (21:42) Egyptians understood that the divine expressed itself with intentional metaphor —...

This week we’re exploring the relationship chemistry between 3 & 9.  — (6:41) David’s impressions and romantic experiences with 3’s — (16:55) Nancy’s impressions and romantic experiences with 9’s — (26:21) Togetherness and the parenting philosophy of attachment vs hexad — (44:33) The high and low sides of 3x9 relationships — (54:12) The growth edges for a 3x9 pairing If you haven’t already, go buy...

Good luck following this freeform conversation on the law of three, relationships, and the polarity between 9 and the gap. — (5:33) John’s visions of the law of 3 and why Pete Davidson gets girls — (9:34) Attachment types being open and available on the frontend but unavailable on the backend — (13:56) #Nota4 and the acceptance and thinking style of 9 vs the rejection at the gap — (28:55) Everythi...

This week, Alexandra is here to help us delve into our hormonal astrological compatibilities. — (3:37) Alexandra’s intro to composite and synastry compatibility  — (5:38) Nancy David — (10:59) John Emeka — (24:57) Emeka Nancy — (32:21) David Emeka — (40:05) John Nancy — (47:46) David John — (52:54) Alexandra Everyone and closing thoughts Donate to help us pay for new audio equipment at bhepodcast@...

Your himbo grumps are back at it again, to pick apart an often repeated and incorrect adage, “movitation, not behavior”. — (3:14) It’s both motivation AND behavior, and you don’t know your own motivation — (6:26) The instinctual drives and other layers have to be considered in motivation  — (11:59) The motivation behind creating easily misunderstood catch phrases — (15:42) Each type structure is v...

Join us with libations and your substances of choice to look back on the transformative year that was 2021. — (9:32) The year of uncovering attachment and confronting our blindspots — (19:10) Props, shoutouts, and accomplishments — (26:17) John’s instincts book release — (46:34) Dark Arts Academy  — (1:01:22) Plans for 2022 If you haven’t already, go buy John’s book on amazon or barnesandnoble: ht...