If ever you’ve wished for a fast forward button through the painful seasons of your life, this is for you.

You’re full of spontaneous energy and fun ideas. You help the rest of us lighten up and enjoy the adventure of life. You’re bold and bright and brilliant. We’re grateful for your contagious optimism, your eager yeses, your enthusiastic encouragement.

Because of you, we try new things that we’d be afraid of otherwise. We also dream bigger dreams, thanks to you. You connect many a person because you have a special way of making everyone feel welcome. Thank you for the endless ways you enrich our lives!

But friend to friend, can we talk about the anxiety that unsettles you in the quiet moments? The exhaustion that takes over when you slow down? The pressure you feel to always stay positive?

Links mentioned:

1. To learn more about Enneagram 7s–including what we appreciate most about you, how you can use your strengths to mirror God’s grace to your neighbors, and (for the rest of us) how we can best missionally love the Enneagram 7s we know–grab the Enneagram Neighboring Lists. Each list is available both as phone wallpaper and as a printable pdf.
2. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up HERE.
3. Read the written version of this episode HERE.

You’re the hands holding everything for everyone, the arms keeping us safe, the backbone of community, the feet that stand for the good all. You prepare for all the things we miss or underestimate.

Rarely do you rest.

Even when your hands are still, you’re working out potential issues inside your head. Researching the safest option. Eliminating the unknowns.

How long has it been since you’ve had a break from the residual fear that tenses your brow and deflates your smile?

Where does worry catch your breath?

What’s keeping your mind restless when you want to be asleep?

Links mentioned:

1. To learn more about Enneagram 6s–including what we appreciate most about you, how you can use your strengths to mirror God’s grace to your neighbors, and (for the rest of us) how we can best missionally love the Enneagram 6s we know–grab the Enneagram Neighboring Lists. Each list is available both as phone wallpaper and as a printable pdf.
2. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up HERE.
3. Read the written version of this episode HERE.

This is for the planners. The methodical. The curious. The articulate.

This is for those of us who prefer a little more time to process, who sometimes (maybe most times) want to blend in, who run out of words before the day is done.

Links mentioned:

1. To learn more about Enneagram 5s–including what we appreciate most about you, how you can use your strengths to mirror God’s grace to your neighbors, and (for the rest of us) how we can best missionally love the Enneagram 5s we know–grab the Enneagram Neighboring Lists. Each list is available both as phone wallpaper and as a printable pdf.
2. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up HERE.
3. Read the written version of this episode HERE.