Life Uninhibited - The Enneagram 6 Podcast

In this episode I explore our relationship to feelings in general, but really unpack the passion of 6. The passion is the emotional vice of each number…where we get stuck. What do we do about it? It’s all inside. Find the article HERE about Beliefs about Emotional Influence Zero to Sixy Waitlist   Other Helpful Links: Sign up for my FREE Series on Confidence You can find me on Instagram HERE...

Doing self-awareness work without also doing self-compassion work is like being a Dr. who has the diagnosis and no bedside manner or capacity to be with the human they are diagnosing. Are you doing this to yourself? Find out in this episode and what to do about it. Zero to Sixy Waitlist   Website on Self-Compassion Other Helpful Links: Sign up for my FREE   Series on Confidence...

Self awareness without self compassion….isn’t actually going to get you anywhere. There is a tendency to wield the Enneagram against ourselves and others without the compassion required to support the vulnerable work of seeing ourselves clearly. I hope this episode helps with both self revealing and the courage to do it with CARE. Helpful Links: Sign up for my FREE   Series on Confidence You...

In this episode I revisit what the fixation of six is and why I think we can get so much movement directly addressing and learning to work with our thinking.  As sixes we have thinking run amok! So much of our thinking is disembodied and contributing to our suffering. Learning skills to work directly with our thinking, to defuse from our automatic thinking, and access embodied thoughts is cru...

As sixes, part of our strategy to avoid our core fears is to disempower ourselves in situations in our lives. Listen in as I break this down with a personal example and what we can begin to do about this painful pattern Helpful Links: Sign up for my FREE   Series on Confidence You can find me on Instagram   HERE If you're interested in joining my Membership Coaching for Enneagram 6's, yo...

Sixes benefit from knowing their core values in so many ways. Listen in for the why, an example, and the HOW! VALUES WORKSHOP:  https://www.kristinmessegee.com/offers/uLEhmqon Helpful Links: Sign up for my FREE   Series on Confidence You can find me on Instagram   HERE If you're interested in joining my Membership Coaching for Enneagram 6's, you can find out more about Zero to Sixy...

Each of us over-focuses on an instinctual strategy. Self-preservation, Social, and Sexual instincts are present in all of us to different degrees and levels of sub-conscious focus. Listen in while Kristin and Aaron bring the teaching as well as what this looks and feels like in real life. Aaron Addonizio is a seasoned Enneagram teacher and coach, holding a Master’s degree in Human Relations from t...

In this episode I explore the dichotomy that while we REALLY do not like uncertainty, we are set up to create a lot of it internally. Listen in to discover how that is true and some ideas for what to do about it! Helpful Links: Sign up for my FREE   Series on Confidence You can find me on Instagram   HERE If you're interested in joining my Group Coaching for Enneagram 6's, you can find o...

New Years Resolutions are generally not a great idea in terms of building self trust, however, you can capture the energy of a new year by considering a long term project for your life and brain. A six brain will be solving problems. The more we can CHOOSE the problems we are working on, the more evolution of ourselves we will experience over the course of our lives. Here are some ideas from my si...

When we take the time to slow down our automatic patterns and get real truthy with what is going on inside of us, we build a connection to a more complete holistic picture of ourselves. Yes, that means we might contact things we aren’t wanting to see, and we build a connection to the positive things about us that we disown as easily as we disown the harder stuff. This practice helps us develop mor...

 I had the honor of sitting down with Aaron Addonizio co-founder of Empathy Architects to discuss the ins and outs of Trifix. We cover the theory itself as well as drill down into how sixes can explore this concept not just in their minds, but in their hearts and bodies as well. Aaron Addonizio is a seasoned Enneagram teacher and coach, holding a Master’s degree in Human Relations from the Un...

In this episode I go into 3 practices that can help you build awareness of your sixy strategies and simultaneously begin to build more self trust from within. These are things you can begin to do right away. Sometimes it’s good to shift from the theoretical and just get going on some practical application. Out of our heads and a bit more into our lives! In this episode I explore why emotional awar...

In this episode I explore why emotional awareness and growing a capacity to feel new feelings is so important in our journeys. We can figure out a lot about what emotions would benefit us by knowing which ones we “prefer” or are most familiar with. The discomfort of NOT doing our strategy is the discomfort we need to access more choice and psychological flexibility in our lives. Helpful Links: Sig...

In this conversation, Anastasia and Kristin explore the landscape of emotion in sixes with a focus on Love, Fear, and Anger. They explore healing modalities, their own journeys, using our personality for us, trusting the unknown, and an upcoming event you are invited to join!     Learn more about the  Healthy Love Show ! Anastasia supports high-achieving women to create healthy conn...

In this episode, I take us through some high level Enneagram teaching of type 6. It centers around the Super Ego Message of 6, “You are good or okay if you do what is expected of you.” How is this subconscious message impacting our day to day choices without our even knowing? Who have we given permission to determine what is expected of us? And what can we start to do about it when we realize we h...

In this interview, Kristin and guest Emily Aborn discuss all things sixes and curiosity. What is it? What isn’t it? How does all this work together in sixiness? Why might we actually avoid being genuinely curious. You will have a more clear sense of some of your internal workings and all those questions after this episode! Emily Aborn is a Content Copywriter, Speaker, and Podcast Host of Content w...

In this episode I answer a listener questions and give an overview of some internal protector parts to be on the look out for as an Enneagram 6. Per the theory of Internal Family Systems, we all have various parts inside of us doing their best to help us navigate life. Similar to our ennea-adaptive strategies, these parts formed when we were young without our permission and can be maladaptive for...

How do the passion of cowardice and the virtue of faith interact as sixes? What does it mean that the virtue can act as an antidote for the passion? How can faith work to transform our relationship to and experience of fear? It’s all in today’s episode! Helpful Links: Sign up for my FREE   Series on Confidence You can find me on Instagram   HERE If you're interested in joining my Group C...

This idea that we might or have done something to impact our OWN security or support system is a major threat to our living in a more Uninhibited way. Learning when this is at play for each of us goes a long way to helping us have the kind of insight that actually leads to more self-support and choice in our lives.   Helpful Links: Sign up for my FREE   Series on Confidence You can...

In this episode we take a closer look at what it means to be self supportive and self reliant as a six. I talk about practices for how to develop this crucial relationship with ourselves on our journeys. Purchase the Live Confidence for Sixes Workshops   HERE   You'll be working through my Confidence Course with me during 2 live workshops: Oct 12th 11am-1pm CST Oct 13th 11am-1pm CST Zoom...

In this episode Kristin and Abbi explore the amount of time and attention sixes give to what *might* be going on in other people's brains. What it really looks like to be others oriented is one of the main places sixes can develop awareness to help them begin to see where and how they disempower themselves regularly. Hanging out in other people's brains does not provide us the security we thi...

In this episode Kristin and Paula discuss the nuance around inviting and supporting our systems to do challenging things without shame. They also get into real strategies to help you make feeling feelings more accessible. As with all things, it’s in the doing, that real change happens. Paula Engebretson is an ADHD coach and productivity enthusiast. Her mission is to help fellow ADHDers step out of...

In this episode I go out on a limb and explore the why behind the need to learn to manage our attention. I talk about in terms of science, quantum science at that! How do particle physics and our sixy personality strategies relate? Tune in and I will explain it. I also have an invitation for you. Purchase the Live Confidence for Sixes Workshops HERE   You'll be working through my Confidence C...

We’ve talked about how one of the type six survival strategies, our fixation, is to self-scare. In this episode, Kristin and Nicole share some of the personal ways their brains self-scare. We do this with a good dose of laughter to help ourselves feel less alone in the experiences created by our brains and get a good dose of laughter at ourselves. Hopefully you can laugh along and feel less alone...

In this bonus episode I take you into my own sixy system and how I am managing some big emotions in a situation in my life. I talk though the various moving parts, how I notice my patterns wanting to take over, and what I do instead. Helpful Links: Sign up for my FREE   Series on Confidence You can find me on Instagram   HERE If you're interested in joining my Group Coaching for Enneagra...