Hello and welcome to Aniagram and Coffee the podcast. I'm your host

Sarah Jane Case and I am so happy to have coffee with you today.

I am so excited to talk with you today about one of my favorite theories in the

in the inagram. Before we dive in I want to talk a bit about theories surrounding

the inigram in general and why I refer to them as such. Occasionally I get a

comment or a d.m. that says I can't believe you entertain the idea of trittypes.

And then someone else will say, until you dive into trittypes,

you aren't teaching the true in aneagram.

It's funny how both of these commenters feel equally entitled to their understanding of the anagram

and equally perturbed that I don't put a stake in the ground on either. The reality for me is that all of this is theory.

All of this is intended for personal use. Therefore I will entertain all of it and I will take and work with what makes sense for me in my journey and I encourage you to do the same.

I am very skeptical of anyone who claims to have all of the answers, especially on this particular

topic. There are so many different schools of thought that are conflicting, and I enjoy the role of bringing information to you and allowing you to decide for yourself how it fits into your own understanding of you.

With that, I want us to explore the work of Sandra Matry, and now I'm not 100% sure if that's how we pronounce her name because I've only

seen it written but I do love her work so we're gonna explore the work of

Sandra Maci she wrote the books in your Passions and Virtues as well as the spiritual

dimension of the Inigram. One of the theories she kind of brought to the forefront is the theory of the

silk child. The concept here is that we are were as children the number that we go to in

rest and that somewhere along the way we received the message that we couldn't

or shouldn't be that way and so we developed our dominant type pattern as a response.

Have you heard of the idea of being true to and honoring your inner child? It's a common concept

in the work that we do in self-help land and the idea that the more grace and

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