Enneagram Type 6

Dear sweet 6s ♥️ Do you know someone who could be a 6?

I seem to gravitate towards 6s, several of my best friends & most trusted confidants are 6s 💞

If you’re lucky enough to have a 6 in your life make sure to give them space to express their concerns & try to be clear about your boundaries instead of leaving them guessing (which they will!) 🧐

Don’t hurry them out of their worries or discredit their thinking. Of course, they DO need to learn that the overthinking is basically unhelpful, but simply discrediting their thoughts only serves to make them further distrust their own mind & their sense of surety 🧘‍♀️ 😌

The 6s work is to find their own inner peace and sense of validation.

They might seem paranoid or irrational from where you’re sitting but for the 6 it can feel very all-consuming & difficult to stop thinking about 🫶

Give them space to talk it all out, validate their feelings but help them also find some perspective. Encourage them to find their own truth & inner strength, independent of you or anyone else, as this is what they really need in their life 💪

I couldn’t do a post about 6s without talking about the subtypes. There are 3 subtypes of every one of the Enneagram types: Sexual (SX), Social (SO) and Self Preservation (SP).

The three subtypes of 6 look the most different. They have such different motivations that I’d be remiss not to touch on all 3 different subtypes in this post.

It’s interesting that for 6s the ‘Self Preservation’ subtype can look more socially driven… and the ‘Social’ subtype can focus more on what we might call self-preservation (security, rule-following etc) 🤯

Each type expresses these core human instincts completely differently, so don’t get hung up on the word or instinct itself. And in this case, type 6 REALLY changes the way that instinct is carried out. More on all of this to come soon!

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