The Enneagram is a powerful tool that provides a map of human behavior to help you get to the root of your wounds and the heart of your gifts.

Our ego is a beautiful protective device that developed when we were young to help us meet our needs. In many cases, these methods are no longer functional, and these strategies prevent us from connecting to our hearts and keep us separate from ourselves and others. And many of us haven’t been taught how to get our needs met outside of the strategies, so we keep repeating the same painful patterns at work, at home, and with our friends and family.

The Enneagram illuminates the wounds and helps us choose new methods and tools. Simultaneously, it provides me insight into how to coach you more effectively with awareness of where you may need more support or a different approach to take action.

There are many typing assessment quizzes that one can find and take; however, I recommend that we schedule a typing session to explore your type. Through my training with the Deep Coaching Institute, I have learned techniques to identify types and will help you do so. The tests can be supportive, but sometimes our desired outputs can alter the accuracy of our inputs.

Somatic work is powerful and transformative. The body is a living library of everything that has happened to us. Emotions are energy in motion. When emotions don’t have anywhere to go (maybe we suppress crying, maybe we grip our muscles due to fear, perhaps we swallow our anger), they get trapped in the body.

Somatic work gives our inner world a voice. And that inner voice is profoundly wise. All the answers lie within us.

Somatic-based coaching allows us to safely and slowly go within, listen, and uncover our truths and gifts.

Sometimes this can feel different or strange if we have spent many years disconnected from our bodies. We will only go as deep as you are ready to go, and we create more capacity for the body's sensations.

The goal of the work with the Enneagram in partnership with somatic work is to bring the three intelligence centers online and to work together. The three intelligence centers are: the body, the heart and the mind. When we access the present moment, these centers lock into their power.

Indigenous and ancient cultures work with the energetic realm to shift and clear blockages if and when it is appropriate to do so. I have been studying with shamans and shamanic allies for one and a half years, learning energy work and the ways of plants. Shamanic Energy Healing is powerful work that couples with somatic work very well to move out stuck energy that no longer serves you. I also have studied Reiki, which I may weave into our sessions. Your consent is always requested when doing this work. We may work together, and you may choose to work without this healing; however, I encourage you to try it and feel the shift for yourself.

I recommend committing to once-per-week sessions for at least three months of somatic-based coaching with the energy work woven in. The work generates profound self-discovery and insights which require time to integrate. Integration is the most critical ingredient to meaningful change, and it can often be easier for a coach to hold space and provide accountability.

If and when it makes sense, plant medicine can support this journey and help clear the path; however, it is not the right path for everyone and something to remain curious about.