Why read The Complete Enneagram?

Book cover of The Complete Enneagram: 27 Paths to Greater Self-Knowledge

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The Enneagram-a universal symbol of human purpose and possibility-is an excellent tool for doing the hardest part of consciousness work: realizing, owning, and accepting your strengths and weaknesses. In this comprehensive handbook, Beatrice Chestnut, PhD, traces the development of the personality as it relates to the nine types of the…

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Psychotherapy

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Self-help

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1 author picked The Complete Enneagram as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Kenden Alfond

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Years ago, I took an enneagram test and it impacted me so deeply that I got trained in it and now use the assessment as the first step in psychotherapy and coaching.

This book is not specifically about eating behavior. However, the self-knowledge and behavior motivation insights from knowing your enneagram type also apply to a person’s emotions and behavior around food, and their thinking/feeling about their body. Bottom line: Life (and eating) is a lot easier when you have self-awareness about your main motivation and your patterns in thinking, feeling, and behavior.

Without self-awareness, we are walking around with…

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