Freeing the Heart of an Enneagram Type One

As you know by now, I am intrigued and fascinated by the Enneagram and how it points us toward empathy for others and kindness toward ourselves.

I’m a Type One.

Singer/Songwriter Ryan O’Neal, of Sleeping at Last, says this of Type Ones:

“…their inner critic is so much more aggressively judgmental and intense than they are to anyone else. They are harder on themselves than they are to the rest of the imperfect world.” (from Episode Four of The Sleeping at Last podcast).

I heard these words an...