What we notice—and what we miss—is shaped by our Enneagram type and ego. This blog explores how cultivating emotional intelligence, curiosity, and perspective-taking helps us overcome limiting frames and fosters deeper connection with others.

Depending on your generation, you may have heard those words a time or two, along with “get over it” and “suck it up”. My father was a well-intentioned man whom I loved. I wasn’t a frequent crier, but if tears happened to surface during a scolding, my dad’s immediate reaction was to try and put me out like I was on fire.

Wherever you are on the spectrum of emotions today, I encourage you to simply allow it. Give yourself permission to feel your emotions without over-identifying, rationalizing, numbing, or avoiding them through various distraction techniques. What are your emotions trying to communicate to you? What are the thoughts and beliefs that sit underneath these emotions?

In a culture that often champions individualism, it’s easy to lose sight of our interconnectedness. Our separateness is an illusion that comes from forgetting that each of us is part of a larger whole, shaped by and shaping the lives around us.  Combatting divisiveness won’t be found in the strength of our arguments or the confidence we have in our “rightness”, but in our resolve to be unified.

The world is changing faster than ever before, which means that the world is more uncertain than perhaps it ever has been. Uncertainty makes us uncomfortable, so the temptation is to fight to hold on to a perspective, an ideal, or a doctrine that helps us feel more certain in a world of uncertainty.

In each edition, I’ll share insights, resources, and tools designed to support you as you navigate the complexities of human emotions, mindsets, uncertainty, and external pressures in a world of infinite demand.