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I’m an Enneagram Type 4: An Introduction
The first time I heard of Enneagram, I thought it was spelled “Anyogram.” I thought it was a board game. I figured the objective was to make up “any” word you could along with a faux-definition for it....
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Life as an Enneagram Type 4: What Unhealthy Tom Looks Like
I recently blogged about Enneagram — the personality model, not the board game. The Enneagram Institute splits humanity into nine definitive personality “types,” each interconnected with the other...
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Life as an Enneagram Type 4: What Healthy Tom Looks Like
I’ve been recently blogging about Enneagram — the personality model that splits humanity into nine definitive “types.” What follows is the third post in a brief introspective series about my life as a...
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Life as an Enneagram Average Type 4: What Normal Tom Looks Like
I’ve been recently blogging about Enneagram — the personality model that defines humanity into nine particular “types.” I started with an Enneagram intro, then examined the life of Unhealthy Tom and...
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The Best of 2014: My #3 Blog Post of the Year
I’m in the midst of an end-of-year countdown featuring my top-5 blog posts of the year! If you missed #5, click over here. If you missed #4, click over there. And if you missed #3 . . . PSYCHE, you...
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To Drown Myself and Be Weak
I’m tucked in my sleeping bag amid poison ivy and dirt. I’m sliding down uneven earth, and I readjust my sleeping bag atop my backpack to compensate. It’s pitch black. I have a headlamp, but I’m not...
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The 10-Year Reunion I Swore I’d Never Attend
Ah, high school. The zippy theme songs, brightly colored walls, and laugh tracks that followed you from classroom to lunchroom to locker room. Wasn’t life grand? Our elderly headmaster often told us...
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Life as an Enneagram Type 4: What Unhealthy Tom Looks Like
I recently blogged about Enneagram — the personality model, not the board game. The Enneagram Institute splits humanity into nine definitive personality “types,” each interconnected with the other...
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I’m an Enneagram Type 4: An Introduction
The first time I heard of Enneagram, I thought it was spelled “Anyogram.” I thought it was a board game. I figured the objective was to make up “any” word you could along with a faux-definition for it....
View ArticleThis Isn’t Real Life
Welcome, all, to an Enneagram-centric post. I highly recommend drinking the Kool-Aid and figuring yourself out. Along with figuring out the rest of humanity. I’ve been researching and preaching the...
View ArticleI Need to be Sad
I watched another sad movie, you guys. Another sad movie with “boy” in the title, no less. Beautiful Boy, this one’s called. It came out last year, and it stars Steve Carell and Amy Ryan and Timothée...
View ArticleLeave Me Alone
Setting out on this trip two months ago, I anticipated a lot of epic moments: a retreat, a conference, a move with a friend out West. Trips-within-trips started forming along the way as I made plans to...
View ArticleGod I Hate People
People are the best and also the worst. We need them, we delight in them, and yet we hate them. Or is that just me? Okay. “Hate” is a strong word. I don’t mean to use it lightly. People do unspeakable...
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I’m an Enneagram Type 4: An Introduction
The first time I heard of Enneagram, I thought it was spelled “Anyogram.” I thought it was a board game. I figured the objective was to make up “any” word you could along with a faux-definition for it....
View ArticleTo Watch the Storms of My Sadness
Among my new year’s so-called resolutions is this one to meditate regularly. Not pray. Not talk to God in any discernible way. But meditate. Be still. Listen. Breathe. Focus on listening and breathing....
View ArticleThe Year I Don’t Wanna Look Back On (Again)
I don’t want to blog today. I don’t want to look back on this year. Who would? This year was awful. This year made no sense. Much like its evil stepsister year before, this year isn’t one I want to...
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