After several weeks of travel and holiday celebrations, I’m back with the final installment of the series, “ What if? ” The basic premise...

Transformation is not becoming someone different. Transformation discovering and remembering who we truly are. The problematic patterns...

In our pursuit for personal growth and improvement, we are actually seeking what we already possess. Wise teachers remind us that the...

“We cannot heal what we do not acknowledge.” Richard Rohr “Waking up is hard to do.” We continue identifying the blind spots of each...

“We cannot heal what we do not acknowledge.” Richard Rohr “Waking up is hard to do.” In this blog post, we continue identifying the blind...

“We cannot heal what we do not acknowledge.” Richard Rohr Each Enneagram Type contains the paradox of the both-and . What we call our...

“Often, seeing the root causes of a habit—why it exists and what it is designed to do—is enough to allow you to break out of the pattern....

“Self-observation aims to create enough internal space to really watch—with fresh eyes and adequate distance—what you are thinking,...

“If we have the courage to be honest with ourselves about the things we know we do, the things we avoid knowing we do, and the adaptive...

“The Enneagram’s greatest gift to us is growth—and not growth in the capitalistic, productivity-metric sense, but growth more in the...

We talk a lot in Enneagram circles about “transformation.” In fact, the whole goal of the Enneagram is to generate personal and...

I was recently interviewed by Katarina Todorovic with Mystic Mag. Follow the link for the article. https://www.mysticmag.com/psychic-read...

WHY IS TRANSMUTO A NONPROFIT? Would you be surprised to learn that Transmuto is a nonprofit? I’d love to tell you the story why. Prior to...

Many might find it surprising that Enneagram Eights possess a defense mechanism. Eights come across with great strength, confidence and...

We've worked our way through Types 1-6 in our exploration of defense mechanisms from the Enneagram perspective. We now land on Type 7,...

Our next stop working our way around the Enneagram as we explore our defense mechanisms is Type Six--the loyalist, trooper, skeptic,...

We've been working our way around the Enneagram circle, discussing each Type's primary defense mechanism. A common mistake we make when...

My apologies for the lag between posts. We spent a good chunk of March moving. We decided to downsize and relocate after 25 years. We...

What do you do when you feel uncomfortable in social situations? What is your automatic response when you feel insecure? Or when negative...

One of the more fascinating patterns of human behavior is the phenomena known as defense mechanisms. I introduced defense mechanisms in...