Exploring Instinctual Drives and Enneagram Types and how they adapt to change

Explanation of the Self-Preservation Instinctual Drive and how this looks depending on where it sits in and individual's Instinctual Stack.

Explaining Instinctual Stacking in the Enneagram--specifically the Dominant, Secondary, and Repressed Instincts.

Though often pushed to the back of our consciousness and buried under layers of ego, every human at their instinctual core is just trying to survive. At this instinctive level, there are three main areas of concern that help the individual survive in an uncertain world: Self-Preservation, Sexual, and Social. These make up the bestial side of us humans, a part of our lizard brain that watches for ways to keep the body safe, procreate, and live harmoniously with our fellow huma

We've all done it. Started a casual conversation with someone that suddenly turned into an all out fight. What happened? If you TRULY...

We've all done it. Started a casual conversation with someone that suddenly turned into an all out fight. What happened? If you TRULY...

Is there a difference between Instinct and Subtype? Yes. This can be a super confusing topic, so it is not uncommon to use these terms interchangeably even after you've hung around the Enneagram world for awhile. What are the Instincts? Instincts are basic human drives that influence a person's way of engaging with the world. Some scientists believe that these Instincts reside in the reptilian part of the brain and is something we cannot control or influence once it has been