Insights Insights from the work: what clients are navigating, what I’m learning, and ways to keep growing. Reader, We talk a lot about Enneagram types, but we don’t often get to hear the stories behind them. What shaped someone, what they wrestled with, and how knowing their type helped them grow. That’s what the Story Spotlights at the Spiritual Formation EnneaSummit offer. Each runs about 25 minutes, and each features a real person sharing a real chapter of their life. Stories like these...
about 14 hours ago • 2 min read
September 2026 Insights Insights from the work: what clients are navigating, what I’m learning, and ways to keep growing. Reader, If I’m honest, I don’t enjoy promoting myself, and as a Type 3 who spent my career before kids in marketing, public relations, and advertising, you’d think it would come easily. Admittedly, I thought it would be easier than it is (cue the self-preservation Type 3, the countertype that can look more like a Type 2). I was just on a walk with a dear friend who is a...
3 days ago • 2 min read
October Reader, "Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives who were in prison with me; they are prominent among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.” Romans 16:7, NRSV Did you catch that Paul uses our phrases in that verse to describe her? My relatives In prison with me Prominent among the apostles In Christ before I was Think about that for a second. Paul is telling us his relative Junia followed Christ before he did, in years when believers were being persecuted. And she was...
10 days ago • 2 min read
September 2026 Insights Insights from the work: what clients are navigating, what I’m learning, and ways to keep growing. Reader, I couldn't sleep the night after I recorded my Story Spotlight for the Type·ish Spiritual Formation Summit. My brain went into overdrive with all the classic Enneagram 3 lines: I shared too much. I shared too little and didn't sound authentic. What was I thinking saying yes to this? What will Tyler think of me? Did I meet his expectations? Ugh... I could go on and...
15 days ago • 2 min read
September 2026 Reader A couple of years ago, I watched a documentary about mosaics in Zeugma being uncovered- two-thousand-year-old pieces of art, buried for centuries, now being brought back into the light. One shot stayed with me: the camera zoomed in on a woman's face in the tiles, a mythological figure, stunning in her own right. Then the camera pulled back as they began brushing away more of the earth and silt. She was one piece of an enormous mosaic. The larger mythological tale...
21 days ago • 2 min read
September 2026 Insights Insights from the work: what clients are navigating, what I’m learning, and ways to keep growing. Reader, Would you be up for testing something for me before it goes "really public"? Tyler Zach, who I met on a podcast in 2023 (Tyler is a 3w4 and I'm a 3w2) invited me to be a Story Spotlight guest for his upcoming Type'ish Spiritual Formation EnneaSummit. I'll be talking about being an Enneagram 3 and needing to step back from "performing by serving" at church. still...
25 days ago • 2 min read
September 2026 Phoebe, Prisca, Aquila, Epaenetus, Mary, Andronicus, Junia, Ampliatus, Urbanus, Stachys, Apelles, Aristobulus, Herodian, Narcissus, Tryphaena, Tryphosa, Persis, Rufus, Rufus's mother, Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, Philologus, Julia, Nereus, Nereus's sister, Olympas. That's the full list of names Paul greets in Romans 16. Unless you can read ancient Greek, I'd guess it would be hard to tell how many are women. The answer is ten. That's almost one-third. And of...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
September 2026 Hi [First Name], I'm writing this feeling raw, and the need to be honest with you. I went to bed exhausted and almost crying last night. I probably should have just let myself, but this Enneagram 3, for some reason, finds tears a bit too much to bear. The irony of trying to share with you about the incredible love of God, our Heavenly Father, whom we can trust with His timing...and going to bed feeling disappointed in myself and my brain telling me I'm a failure...was literally...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
September 2026 Insights Insights from the work: what clients are navigating, what I’m learning, and ways to keep growing. Reader, What you'll find in this email: A job I didn't know I was finishing Transition is different than change What a September New Year could look like for you An online catalog of 9 lumens offerings is always here Our youngest graduated from high school in June. And perhaps it's my Enneagram 3 language here, but considering I was pregnant with our oldest when we moved...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read