Stress and Security | "Personality and Wholeness in Therapy"

Reading Room | An Enneagram Podcast · Sep 20, 2026 · 29m

In this episode of the Reading Room, Jeff steps away from the text of Daniel Siegel’s Personality and Wholeness in Therapy to ask whether Siegel’s framework might help explain one of the strangest—and most important—features of the Enneagram: our movements in stress and security.This time, Jeff proposes a simple theory. When we move along the Enneagram’s traditional lines, we aren't mysteriously becoming another number. Instead, just one element of our personality pattern changes: either our center of intelligence shifts or the direction of our energy shifts. Jeff works through all nine types…