Chapter 4 | "Personality and Wholeness in Therapy" | Why You Became Your Enneagram Type

Reading Room | An Enneagram Podcast · Sep 16, 2026 · 1h 1m

In this episode of Around the Circle’s Reading Room, Jeff continues through Chapter Four of Personality and Wholeness in Therapy, digging into one of the densest—and potentially most useful—sections of Daniel Siegel’s Enneagram theory.This time, we look at how the three Centers organize themselves around the primal needs for agency, bonding, and certainty, and how anger, shame/separation distress, and fear function as protective emotional responses. From there, Siegel proposes three different ways we handle that emotional energy: experiencing and expressing it, containing and channeling it…