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Thanks for joining us for today's tangents! Joining us for this episode is our guest Marika Litz, who helps us explore the gifts of the Enneagram as a self-awareness tool, the centers of intelligence, the angst of Enneagram 6s, and much more.

01:30 Diving right into Enneagram talk / Lisa’s official Enneagrammer typing

05:15 Marika’s Enneagram type and reevaluation

06:50 Oh - welcome to our awesome guest Marika Litz

07:15 How Emma and Marika met

08:55 Marika’s background

11:40 Marika’s Enneagram study journey and feeling a sense of belonging

17:20 Why we are afraid of speaking up in groups and taking up space

22:20 Lisa’s 7 wing and discussion about overlays

24:25 Marika’s recap of and takeaways from the Enneagram School centers of intelligence class / Josh Lavine’s developmental model and object relations

31:15 Full-on rejection mode and body center observation

34:25 Enneagram 1s can’t numb themselves to an irritant

35:20 The gifts of the Enneagram

37:13 Lisa interjects with a question: What was Marika’s first impression of Emma?

40:10 Marika’s family discussion about anxiety and innate sense of ungroundedness as Enneagram 6s

42:56 Marika describes their sense of anxiety and preference for “angst” as a descriptor

48:00 Overcoming the idea of “what is wrong with me?”

49:00 “We are a part of the creating…”

49:54 Feeling that the heart is untrustworthy and what happens when we experience identity shifts

52:00 Does Lisa relate to any of this 6 stuff?

58:00 The scrambling of the centers of intelligence

01:02:10 The role of self-observation and when established Enneagram language doesn’t resonate

01:07:13 The Enneagram and awareness of “what’s going on behind the curtain”

01:08:48 Our ego is set up to protect us and appreciating when it performs its function

01:11:35 Inner authority and state of feeling unsettled

01:14:26 One of the gifts of the 6

01:15:25 The beauty (and traps) of the head center

01:21:13 Overlapping wisdom traditions on the three centers of intelligence

01:23:09 Wrapping up the convo

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