Today’s episode is with Enneagram expert and coach, Beth McCord.  You may have seen her live or read one of her and her husbands books from their online ministry and company, Your Enneagram Coach. I ask her to share how she started using the Enneagram in her own life and Beth shares each types core longings and she shares a word picture about a cistern  that was so good!!!

SHOW NOTES: 

Quotes from the episode:

“It (The Enneagram) doesn’t heal you, it is the gospel that heals us.”

“We are always constantly using whatever tool to then show us our real hope, which is in Christ.”

“You find yourself in this cycle that feels very discouraging and hopeless when your constant focus is on pleasing others or making others happy.”

“I kept falling deeper and deeper into my own thought processes that were not truths.”

“So, that’s where the Enneagram helped me to reorient my mind in what God really says.”

“So we each have these core lies, core processes that can derail us.”

“I can choose what I do with those thoughts.”

“I have been more able to allow and ask the Holy Spirit in and through me to reorient my heart into what is actually true…to surrender and allow Him to work in and through me and then to walk that out by faith.”

“I can not do this in my own strength.”

“But that’s where the gospel is so great, it frees us!

“We were so good for each other, but we were also so struggling.”

“He calls us to things that stretch us, that create us to depend on Him.”

“Each of the 9 types need to depend on him in different ways.”

“The path He has had for me is what I love and the one I struggle with the most.”

“It’s not wrong that we want certain things from people but when it turns to demand or judgment or punishment that’s a signal that it’s an idol.”

Core Longings: 

You are Good-1

You are wanted and loved-2

You are loved by being you-3

You are loved by who you are-4

Your needs are not a problem-5

You are safe and secure-6

You will be taken care of-7

You will not be betrayed-8

Your presence matters-9

Verse Beth mentions; Jeremiah 2:13

EAT-READ-LOVE segment:

What Beth is Eating:  Hibachi Rice at home!

What Beth is Reading: A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23

What Beth is Loving: Leaves on trees

CONNECT WITH BETH

 Find all of Beth’s free resources on her web site

Beth and Jeff’s marriage Enneagram book

Find Beth on Instagram at Your Enneagram Coach

Your Enneagram Coach Podcast NEW!

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XO,

Wren