At the first meeting of a couple’s group Luke and I had joined, we were asked to fill out a small personality survey: on a sliding scale, how extroverted did we consider ...
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The Enneagram in the Hundred Acre Wood
I was reading a Winnie-the-Pooh picture book with Charleston a few weeks ago and had a mind-blowing realization: the characters in The Hundred Acre Wood are lifted straight from the Enneagram model ...
Proper Care and Feeding of An Introverted Mom
I have a confession to make: before Charleston was born, I prayed (actual, honest to goodness prayers) that he would be an introvert. I prayed other things for him too, of course ...
Self-Help: How should we feel about it?
Over the last several years, I’ve developed a strong affinity for books and podcasts within the the Self-Help / Self-Improvement / Personal Development genre. The category might be hard to pin down ...
My (New) Favorite Personality Book {And why you need to read it, too!}
When I first learned that my favorite blogger (and podcaster) was coming out with a new book, I couldn’t preorder a copy fast enough. I didn’t need to know the book’s subject ...
Life In the Slow Lane
I was born on March 2nd, a full ten days before my due date. It would prove to be one of the few times in my life when I would show up ...
Personality Series // Books That Will Help You Get to Know Yourself
As happiness guru Gretchen Rubin likes to say, “there are two kinds of people in the world: people who want to divide the world into two kinds of people, and the kind ...
Personality Series // A Beginner’s Guide to the Big Five
It’s time for Part Three of our exploration through some of the more popular personality models. The last two personality systems we discussed (Myers-Briggs and The Enneagram) were both models I’ve studied ...
Personality Series // A Beginner’s Guide to The Enneagram
Last week we kicked off our personality series with an introduction to the Myers-Briggs personality model. I loved all of the great feedback I received and was excited to see how many ...
Personality Series // A Beginner’s Guide to Myers-Briggs
We’ve all had experience with transient hobbies—those pastimes we pour ourselves into for a time, but eventually prove to be short lived diversions. I’ve had many of these temporary interests, and I ...