The Healthy and Unhealthy Enneagram

The Type 8 who shields the people she loves and the Type 8 who bulldozes everyone in her path are the same number -- and yet they barely look related. That gap is what this book is about. Every Enneagram type lives along a range, from its healthiest, most generous expression to its most harmful one, with a wide ordinary middle where most of us spend most of our days. Knowing your number tells you which path you walk; knowing where you are on it tells you how the walk is going. In plain, warm language -- no clinical model, no scored test, no shame -- you'll see what each of the nine types looks like at its best, on an average day, and at its worst, and you'll learn to feel the difference from the inside. You'll come to recognize the early signs that you're sliding down, and the small, real moves that carry you back up. This is a mirror that doesn't flatter and doesn't condemn: it simply shows you the whole range of who you can be, and points -- gently, steadily -- toward your best.