The Enneagram and Shame (Curt Thompson, The Allender Center)

What it is

Dr. Curt Thompson, a psychiatrist who works at the intersection of neuroscience, attachment and Christian spirituality, uses the Enneagram here as nine fairly predictable ways people understand and tell the story of their shame. That framing is more useful than personality typing: shame in sexual recovery is not generic, it speaks a specific sentence to each person, and it repeats. Recognizing your own version of it — the particular accusation that always lands — makes it identifiable rather than simply true. Produced with the Allender Center, whose work on trauma, story and sexual brokenness runs closely alongside this directory's better material. Free. Best for someone who has done behavioural work and keeps colliding with the same internal voice.

What it may help with

• I'm struggling with porn or sexual sin
• I want to grow spiritually

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