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"How are you feeling?"
Christine Yi Suh says that this has always been a hard question. She writes: "The more accurate question for a Four may be, 'What aren't you feeling?' I can grab my prevailing emotion and tell you how I'm doing from that emotion's point of view (joy, elation, sadness, grief, confusion-you name it!). I live and breathe a kaleidoscope of living, feeling, conflicting emotions."
Many times Fours are labeled "emotionally intense" or "too much," but for a Four this is just how life is. This is why Fours are ideal companions in the midst difficult times: the death of a loved one, the birth of a baby, transitional seasons in career, relational conflict, and so on.
The Enneagram is a profound tool for empathy, so whether or not you are a Four, you will grow from your reading about Four and enhance your relationships across the Enneagram spectrum. Each reading concludes with an opportunity for further engagement such as a journaling prompt, reflection questions, a written prayer, or a spiritual practice.
Christine Yi Suh says that this has always been a hard question. She writes: "The more accurate question for a Four may be, 'What aren't you feeling?' I can grab my prevailing emotion and tell you how I'm doing from that emotion's point of view (joy, elation, sadness, grief, confusion-you name it!). I live and breathe a kaleidoscope of living, feeling, conflicting emotions."
Many times Fours are labeled "emotionally intense" or "too much," but for a Four this is just how life is. This is why Fours are ideal companions in the midst difficult times: the death of a loved one, the birth of a baby, transitional seasons in career, relational conflict, and so on.
The Enneagram is a profound tool for empathy, so whether or not you are a Four, you will grow from your reading about Four and enhance your relationships across the Enneagram spectrum. Each reading concludes with an opportunity for further engagement such as a journaling prompt, reflection questions, a written prayer, or a spiritual practice.
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"Informative and insightful, Christine Yi Suh invites the reader not only into the complex world of the Enneagram Four but also the lived experience of a Korean American woman. The growing popularity of the Enneagram has lacked the nuances of how culture impacts the Enneagram learner. Christine masterfully adds layers and texture in her writing through history and personal examples of struggle and
Vivian Mabuni, host of the Someday Is Here podcast and author of Open Hands, Willing Heart
"Christine Yi Suh's wonderful Forty Days on Being a Four helps us explore our gloriously tumultuous inner worlds, motivations, and emotions . . . the natural habitat for those of us who engage the world as Enneagram Fours. Reading this book helped me feel seen and a little less weird. But more importantly, in sharing her experience as a Korean American woman, Christine invited me outside my limite
Aaron Niequist, liturgist and author of The Eternal Current
"I am not an Enneagram Four, but I was drawn to this book (and indeed the entire series) because as Christine Yi Suh writes, the Enneagram doesn't bring me greater self-awareness but is 'a tool to bring greater understanding, empathy, compassion, and grace to one's self and one's neighbor.' What I didn't anticipate was how disarmingly tender this book of daily reflections would be. When Christine
Jo Saxton, speaker, leadership coach, and author of Ready to Rise