Big Hormone Enneagram

We’re responding to your loveline submissions for our 100th episode. Thanks for all your comments, questions, and feedback. We appreciate y’all sticking with us thus far.  — (6:04) The inaccessibility of the pod’s communication style  — (9:35) What drug would each of the hosts be? — (13:22) Sex worker question for Nancy — (18:05) Advise for christians who are interested in learning the enneagram —...

This week we’re getting into a mbti personality system called Objective Personality (OPS). We ended up doing a rough intro into the basic concepts of OPS, and how we might explore connections between cognitive functions and the enneagram. — (10:16) What is the objective personality approach to MBTI? — (19:21) The function animals and how they work (Blast, Consume, Play, Sleep) — (23:55) Function a...

This week we’re exploring and explaining the parts of instincts that continue to confuse and trip people up. — (6:12) Where did the idea of a blindspot come from and is the blindspot really blind? — (14:27) Overestimating your sexual instinct when you’re sexual blind — (17:24) Sexual is penetrating and flipping polarities moment to moment — (23:26) How Nancy was able to see her sexual blindness as...

Continuing where we left off with Courtney and Czander and attachment to disconnect from the 3-6-9 Bermuda Triangle. — (9:26) How does a good attachment form for attachment types if attaching is based on not being seen? — (17:13) 9s needing contrast and negation to find themselves and resisting being located — (22:52) Attachment types exist in shifting context, which makes them resistant to pinnin...

This week we're tackling type 8 misconceptions and misinformation that lead so many to mistype and idealize type 8. — (10:26) Emeka’s overview of often overlooked aspects of the 8 type structure — (15:22) 8 is dissociating to reject and stay separate but involved by embodying the protecting function — (19:40) 8s are separate and expansive in ways that dehumanizes themselves and others — (23:18) 8...

This week Courtney and Czander are with us to attempt to uncover the mysteries of attachment to disconnect from the 3-6-9 Bermuda Triangle. — (13:30) Courtney’s take on how the 3 is committed to remaining slippery and disconnected — (17:02) 3’s maintain a disconnect by assuming people only want their palatable selves instead of their genuine selves — (26:59) The 3’s attachments are a prop for how...

We’re wrapping up our Bhavachakra instinct discussions riffing on David’s insights and odds & ends. — (9:42) The Bhavachakra and Buddhism are a philosophy of psychology — (14:45) The scarcity of attraction for sx/sp compared to sx/so — (19:48) The ‘star’ principle of sx/so and how this appears in Egyptian cosmology  — (25:57) The overarching message and takeaways DG wants you to get from the Bhava...

We’re continuing our discussions on instincts, joined by Joseph and Alexandra, to get into the social stackings and DG’s insights with the Bhavachakra. — (5:24) David’s intro to his SO/SX and SO/SP correlations on the  Bhavachakra — (18:21) The social types weigh in on the contrasts between their stackings — (30:34) How so/sp experiences so/sx and vice versa — (48:46) How social dominants get trig...

This week we’re discussing and answering your submitted loveline questions on John’s instinct book. — (3:21) What might it look like when a type is faced with a situation that exemplifies the loss of essential quality? — (22:10) A critique about John’s use of the word individuation and hormonal comments about his hotness — (31:18) How is the instinct stacking determined and why does one instinct b...

We’re continuing our discussions on instincts, joined by my bb Beth, to get into the sexual stackings and DG’s insights with the Bhavachakra. — (6:39) David’s intro to his SX/SO and SX/SP correlations on the  Bhavachakra — (14:35) Beth’s experience as a sx/so attachment type in contrast to social types and sx/sp — (26:21) What distinctly makes sx/so a sexual type — (35:30) Contrasting sx/so with s...

This week we’re continuing our discussions on instincts with a dive into the self-pres stackings and DG’s magical abstractions with the Bhavachakra. — (3:47) Intro to SP/SO, SP/SX, and David’s instinct discoveries with the Bhavachakra — (11:32) What exactly is the Bhavachakra and how is it a map for the instincts and stackings? — (19:00) The 6 instinct stackings are real and the collage exercise i...

This week we’re joined by Czander to delve into his illuminating insight on the disconnect of attachment types.  — (8:56) Czander shares his comment on attachment and discusses his thought process on how he figured it out — (20:54) How attachment types make themselves feel not seen and supported so they can adapt — (37:15) Integrating the blindspot is the key to go from functioning (adapting) to b...

We’re back at it discussing John’s new instincts book, continuing where we left off with how to integrate the blindspot. — (4:57) The social approaches — (25:10) Practices for integrating the self-pres blindspot — (37:48) Practices for integrating the sexual blindspot — (58:02) Practices for integrating the social blindspot If you haven’t already, go buy John’s book on amazon or barnesandnoble: ht...

We’re continuing where we left off with integrating the blindspot. — (6:00) Hitting the soc-last pain back walls harder exploring our toxic traits — (26:18) Introduction to the instinctual approaches and needs — (40:20) Self-pres approaches — (51:20) Sexual approaches Stay tuned for more book launch content this month. And if you haven’t already, go buy John’s book on amazon or barnesandnoble: htt...

We’re continuing to discuss John’s new instinct book. This week we’re getting into the instinctual blindspot. — (3:17) How we’re invested in not understanding or grasping what the blindspot really is — (5:17) Our experiences of our blindspots — (14:18) What happens when you start to see your blindspot — (17:52) How each blindspot threatens the dominant instinct — (28:55) Self-pres blind — (33:37)...

John’s instinct book is finally here. The crew is back together to discuss the instincts book to rule them all.  — (4:03) John’s thoughts and experiences writing new instinct material for his book — (7:58) The clarity of understanding how we’re seeking essential qualities through our instincts — (15:10) The needs and approaches as mechanisms instead of just descriptions of instinct — (27:42) Plans...

We’re back with two contrasting social types thrust into a social hell in this surprise face/off between Koala CQ Alexandra and Untouchable Prince Joseph. — (2:39) Social attachment vs social hexad — (5:36) How does Joseph navigate being social as a negative 4 — (13:56) Comparing and contrasting so/sx and so/sp — (31:15) What does closeness mean and what is the aim of social? — (39:22) What causes...

We’re descending into the hell of the self-pres instinct with this face/off between Dominatrix Nancy and Cult Daddy David — (5:20) The hellish fear vs the comfort stages of self-pres — (9:09) The friction between the pursuit of money for a certain lifestyle and actually getting to live that lifestyle — (11:11) Nancy’s cottage core bi-sexual farm lifestyle goal — (19:37) Pushing the body to extreme...

This week the enneagrammer boys got together to rant and share tips and tricks on the skill of typing.  — (3:53) Our experiences with self-typing — (10:01) How is it that we can type someone we don’t know? — (14:22) How to approach typings and feedback from family and friends — (17:30) The problem with overreliance on descriptions — (19:12) How do you figure out whether a typing is correct or not?...

Continuing where we left off with Courtney on hexad vs attachment. — (1:26) How do frustration types relate to one another? — (5:18) How attachment gets in the way of relating to others — (7:46) Hexad vs attachment perspectives and reactions to the typing process — (20:50) How attachment yes/no shows up in 6s — (27:16) Differences in how and why 6/3/9 override the other centers to make decisions —...

Courtney joins us to lend her insightful point of view to the hexad vs attachment discussion in this two part conversation. — (1:26)  An overview of Object Relations and what hexad and attachment mean — (10:40) Why is attachment triggering to hexad types — (12:54) Attachment types figuring out who they are through relationship to someone or something else — (17:22) The limited box of hexad types a...

We’re back with new insights to share continuing our hexad vs attachment series. — (1:26)  Revisiting the curious case of David Gray and his hidden very weird attachment — (9:09) Reviewing the last episode’s insights on the individuated vs attachment yes and no — (12:40) The premature yes of attachment vs the premature no of rejection vs the ‘yes, but no’ of frustration — (16:50) Emeka’s experienc...

We’re continuing our explorations of attachment with a face/off between Cult Daddy David and Undignified CQ Alexandra. Venture into this double 9 labyrinth and you *might* emerge from the mist with insights from below and above attachment. — (7:26)  An examination of the internal yes/no tug of war from the perspective of attachment types — (15:42) Ideas on how attachment types might find their loc...

We’re landing on major discoveries exploring hexad vs attachment. Undressing the invisible assumptions of attachment explains so much about how the world functions, and how oppositional hexad and attachment orientations are. — (2:41)  Parasocial relationships as a manifestation of attachment — (8:38)  Hexad inflexibility and self-containment is not attachable — (11:44) Agreement and meeting halfwa...

We need to talk about attachment some more. Interesting new questions and insights about attachment have emerged as a result of our soul intercourse series. Let’s spin. — (4:03)  Inner disagreement and ongoing friction fueling attachment — (9:24)  The implications of attachment in politics and group dynamics — (14:44) The mechanics behind the hate/love relationship attachment types have with us —...