You know the look. That wide-eyed, clenched-jaw, “Nope I’m not dying inside, thank you very much!” expression we’ve all worn at least once (or 472 times) while quietly contemplating how to fake our own disappearance and start over as a goat herder in the Alps. Some people cry. Some people clean. Some people turn into... The post How Each Enneagram Type Tries to Prove They’re “Totally Fine” While Falling Apart appeared first on Psychology Junkie.| Psychology Junkie
There are few things more humbling than babysitting a toddler. You think you’re in control. You think you’re the adult. But toddlers are tiny anarchists with no concept of social contracts, physics, or personal space. They will destroy your dignity one juice-box demand at a time, and they will enjoy it. As a mom of...| Psychology Junkie
You wake up. Your head is pounding. There’s straw in your mouth, someone’s goat is sniffing your face, and a nearby man is dying of what looks like fourteen different illnesses, all of which you’ve only heard about in old-timey novels where everyone is named something like “Willifred the Elder.” You’ve been yeeted, quite unceremoniously,...| Psychology Junkie
Here’s the thing no one tells you about road trips: they’re basically trauma bonding with extra leg cramps. It starts as a cute idea — “Let’s pile into a car and make memories!” — but by hour six you’re 90% beef jerky, 10% passive-aggression, and you’ve stared too long into the void of a Love’s...| Psychology Junkie
As an Enneagram 4 married to a 7 I’ve learned personally that love isn’t one-size-fits-all. What feels like a grand romantic gesture to one person might feel like emotional spam to someone else. And if you’ve ever found yourself trying so hard to love someone well, only to watch them blink at you like you’ve...| Psychology Junkie
“It is not the critic who counts… The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena… who errs, who comes short again and again… and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.”—Theodore Roosevelt We all want to be seen. Understood. Known, without having to contort ourselves...| Psychology Junkie
Find out how each Enneagram type would fare in a zombie apocalypse; who would survive, who would absolutely not make it, and more.| Psychology Junkie
Find out how each of the nine Enneagram types copes with conflict, how they may inadvertently worsen conflict, and what they SHOULD do instead!| Psychology Junkie