E74: Is Your ‘Courage’ Just a Cover?
The Hard Conversation Each Enneagram Type Avoids
Tannah opens the episode anxious that her air conditioner and Nest thermostat are malfunctioning, then shares lake-trip updates and chaotic back-to-school and kids’ soccer logistics, including a messy car and her son’s “helicopter collection” of applesauce tops. The hosts of Enneagram Adventure—certified Enneagram coaches—introduce the topic of courage as the willingness to stay in discomfort, especially during hard conversations, emphasizing curiosity, directness, and kindness. They discuss practicing timely conflict repair (a 48-hour rule), how twos may keep score and struggle to ask for needs without feeling selfish, and how eights’ directness can mask fear of vulnerability. They note head types can intellectualize patterns without embodying change, compare discomfort training to cold plunging and running, and end relieved that Tannah’s AC is working.
00:00 AC Panic Cold Air
01:23 Lake Trip Recap
03:27 Chaotic Family Schedule
05:47 Podcast Intro Enneagram Basics
07:18 Courage Hard Conversations
08:58 Workplace Conflict Skills
12:05 48 Hour Rule Resentment
15:52 Brave Words Kid Boundaries
17:54 Write It Down Dont Send
21:02 Eights And Vulnerability
22:35 Directness Without Cruelty
26:18 Calling Out Judgment
27:48 Curiosity And The Stories We Tell
30:52 Twos Asking For Needs
32:12 Breaking Childhood Patterns
34:35 Letting Others Find Their Way
37:57 Knowing Versus Feeling It
39:40 Training Discomfort Tolerance
42:16 Workout High And Rewards
43:14 AC Update And Wrap Up
45:07 Listener Questions And Goodbye
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