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Christopher L. Heuertz

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Enneagram Teacher | Bestselling and Award-Winning Author | Speaker | Non-Profit Consultant | Smitten Puppy Papa Author of 7 books, including "The Sacred Enneagram" and "The Enneagram of Belonging." https://linktr.ee/chris.heuertz

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Insight Timer Embed: Introducing the Enneagram with Chris Heuertz | Thomas J Bushlack

If you’re new to the Enneagram or still trying to figure it out, here’s a quick 7-minute overview of the types that’s actually a really good place to start.

12.11.2025 17:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Conversation with Richard Rohr -Part 1 - Enneagram Monthly Father Richard Rohr interviewed by Andrea Isaacs and Jack Labanauskas in the fall of 1997 Enneagram Monthly: What have you been doing with the...

This is old interview, but still a great conversation with my mentor and friend, Father Richard Rohr.

11.11.2025 19:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Where Roots Learn to Hold Each Other I thought I was planting trees. What I was really doing was remembering what it means to not grow alone.
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When the Water Clouds: The Necessary Unsettling Clarity almost always comes after the cloud.
04.11.2025 15:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When Self-Improvement Becomes Self-Rejection We talk a lot about growth, but sometimes our striving to “be better” becomes the very thing that keeps us from belonging to ourselves.

When Self-Improvement Becomes Self-Rejection

We talk a lot about growth, but sometimes our striving to “be better” becomes the very thing that keeps us from belonging to ourselves.

31.10.2025 16:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Listening to What We’ve Learned to Ignore: The Enneagram’s Centers of Intelligence The Enneagram shows us not just our strengths, but also what we silence. The repressed center doesn’t vanish; it waits, carrying the medicine for our healing.
26.08.2025 14:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Gilmore and The Enneagram as a Map for Unlearning: What Each Type Must Let Go Of The one thing your type must unlearn to be free.

What does Happy Gilmore have to do with spiritual growth?
Turns out, the Enneagram is less about learning and more about unlearning.

25.07.2025 13:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Wounded Healer: Chiron, the Enneagram, and the Invitation of Your Deepest Pain He was the healer who couldn’t heal himself. And yet, Chiron’s wound became his legacy—and his liberation.
22.07.2025 16:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Enneagram of Belonging Workbook: Mapping Your Unique Path to Self-Acceptance The Enneagram of Belonging Workbook: Mapping Your Unique Path to Self-Acceptance - Kindle edition by Heuertz, Christopher L., Zandee, Estee. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Enneagram of Belonging Workbook: Mapping Your Unique Path to Self-Acceptance.

Summer's the perfect time for some inward reflection. If you've read "The Enneagram of Belonging," now's your chance to deepen that journey. The companion Workbook is on a Kindle flash sale for $0.99. It's an amazing tool to integrate the book's material + apply it to your own life.

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21.07.2025 17:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Beyond the Badge the Enneagram Certification Dilemma: A Guide to Making an Informed Choice To certify or not to certify? That is the question. Let’s reflect on navigating the Enneagram’s professional landscape.

I get asked this question all the time: “Where should I get certified in the Enneagram?”

Over the years, my answer has stayed pretty consistent, and I’m glad I finally took the time to put those thoughts in writing. If you’re curious about my take or considering certification yourself read this:

08.07.2025 14:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Myths We Live By: The Hidden Stories of Each Enneagram Type We are all shaped by stories, some told to us by culture, others whispered by the soul. The myths we carry—often unexamined—hold the power to bind us or set us free.
19.06.2025 19:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Enneagram and the Four Loves Part 1: Storge (Affection) Rooting Ourselves in Belonging Storge shows us that love often begins in the ordinary places we call home.
10.06.2025 03:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Weight of Mercy: The Enneagram and the Art of Forgiveness True forgiveness doesn’t just heal the other person, it liberates the one who dares to offer it.
30.05.2025 19:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Birth Order Bias: Does Our Place in the Family Shape Our Enneagram Type? As a firstborn Eight, I’ve long wondered if family roles shape more than just our childhood. Could they echo in our Enneagram type too?
27.05.2025 19:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Wounded Healer: Chiron, the Enneagram, and the Invitation of Your Deepest Pain He was the healer who couldn’t heal himself. And yet, Chiron’s wound became his legacy—and his liberation.
22.05.2025 11:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Reflections and Rejections: Exploring the Enneagram’s Avoidance Strategies Through Echo and Narcissus In the wild and whispering woods of ancient Greece, there was a mountain nymph named Echo.
15.05.2025 14:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Existential Hole and the Invisible Lines of the Enneagram (Part 1 of 3) Hidden within the Enneagram’s structure is a break—the Existential Hole—where separation and longing reside. This first installment explores the Invisible Lines, lost pathways that once shaped our int...
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The Enneagram Isn’t a Shortcut—It’s an Invitation We love quick answers, neat labels, and easy explanations. But what if the Enneagram wasn’t a tidy personality system, but the doorway to something deeper?
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Reclaiming Your Light: The Golden Shadow and the Enneagram The strengths you admire in others—the confidence, creativity, or wisdom you long for—are already within you. The Enneagram and Jung’s golden shadow reveal how to reclaim the best parts of yourself
05.05.2025 17:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Slaying the Messenger, Befriending the Dragon: Rethinking the Enneagram’s Call to Growth The Monsters We Fear, The Messengers We Need: The Enneagram’s Hidden Wisdom
02.05.2025 14:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Loving Yourself as You Are: The True Work of the Enneagram Loving Yourself Through the Enneagram: Understanding Your Type & Embracing Your Own Growth. We spend so much time using the Enneagram to understand ourselves—but do we ever use it to truly love oursel...
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The Overlooked Enneagram Theory That Changes Everything: Claudio Naranjo’s Confluence Model Claudio Naranjo’s “confluence” theory is perspective that challenges the way we think about our Enneagram type, suggesting that our core Passion isn’t just a product of our dominant type but an emerge...
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Desire, Fantasy, and Fear: The Unspoken Enneagram Connections in Primary Speech Most books on prayer ignore the messy, complicated reality of being human. Primary Speech doesn’t—offering a profound, Enneagram-adjacent approach to integrating desire, fantasy, fear, and even sexual...
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The Enneagram Explorer’s Toolkit: Three Books Moving the Conversation Forward It’s getting wild out there.
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The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth - Kindle edition by Heuertz, Christopher L., Rohr, Richard. Religion & Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

Bam. The Kindle gods are smiling on the Enneagram today—"The Sacred Enneagram" is just $1.99 right now on Kindle. That’s less than your oat milk latte, friends. Snag it, gift it, reread it, annotate it wildly. Score that already!

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10.04.2025 19:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Nine Rivers of Hades and the Enneagram: Emotional Undercurrents and Transformations There are some rivers you choose to cross, and others that pull you under before you realize you’re drowning. The nine rivers of Hades—like the nine Enneagram energies—mirror a journey of the soul.
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Owning Your Gold: A Reflection on Father Richard Rohr We often think of mentors as wise figures who dispense knowledge, but the best ones do something far more profound—they reflect back what we are meant to see in ourselves. My relationship with Father ...

The best teachers don’t hoard our admiration—they hand it back. Father Rohr reflected my reverence in a way that helped me recognize what had been mine all along. The real work of a mentor isn’t to hold power, but to empower. Not to create followers, but to make them unnecessary.

02.04.2025 21:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Enneagram of Belonging by Christopher L. Heuertz | Substack Charting the unexplored contours of our Enneagram types by mapping the self, shedding the ego, and finding transformation through shadow work. Click to read The Enneagram of Belonging by Christopher L...

Haven't found or followed my Substack "The Enneagram of Belonging" yet? Here's your chance. One of my favorite posts drops tomorrow morning—don’t miss it. Subscribe and stay tuned! 🖤✨

31.03.2025 17:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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To all who fasted, your sacrifice and prayers are a gift to the world. May the strength of your journey bring peace, healing, and renewal to all. As you celebrate Eid al-Fitr, may your heart be full of joy, your home filled with love, and your days be blessed with hope and promise. Eid Mubarak!

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Enneagram Apology Languages: How Each Enneagram Type Gives & Receives Apologies What if the way you apologize isn’t actually an apology at all? What if, despite your best intentions, your attempt at repair feels hollow, off-target, or even frustrating to the person you’ve hurt? T...
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