A Change of Habit: Sister Monica Clare's Journey from Advertising to Nunhood

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Ian Morgan Cron

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🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to this enlightening episode of Typology! Join us as we explore the life and journey of Sister Monica Clare, an Enneagram 6 and author of the memoir A Change of Habit: Leaving Behind My Husband, Career, and Everything I Owned to Become a Nun.

In this episode, we explore:

Sister Monica's experiences growing up in a chaotic environment and how it shaped her Enneagram type.
The unique challenges and joys of being an Enneagram 6 in a religious community.
The intersection of spirituality and personality, and how the Enneagram informs her spiritual practices.
Insights from her journey in Al-Anon and the lessons learned about control and boundaries.
The role of fear and anxiety in decision-making and how she navigates these feelings in her leadership role.

Sister Monica shares her candid reflections on her path to becoming a nun, the importance of community, and the spiritual practices that ground her amidst uncertainty.

Don't miss this heartfelt conversation filled with wisdom, humor, and inspiration!

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0:00.0	Well, okay, Typology family, welcome back. Today's a big day. I've been looking forward to it.
0:08.2	This book written by this author has been sitting on my bedside table. My wife has already
0:13.9	devoured it. Now it's my turn. And I am so stoked today to have with us, Sister Monica Claire,
0:21.6	Enneagram 6, an author of this wonderful new memoir, A Change of Habit,
0:26.0	leaving behind my husband, career, and everything I owned.
0:29.7	Monica, welcome to the show.
0:31.3	Thank you so much.
0:32.8	It's great to be here.
0:34.7	So let's talk about being an an aneogram 6.
0:37.4	It's one of my favorite enneagram types in all of the
0:41.0	world. So glad to hear that. Are you at six? No, I'm a four. A four. Oh, that's great too.
0:48.3	Yeah, yeah, I'm a four. And I'm just curious to know what life has been like for you as aneogram six and how it has
0:58.2	affected your spiritual journey.
1:00.8	Well, as a six, I've discovered there are a lot of other sixes in religious communities.
1:06.7	We seem to be drawn to order and calm.
1:11.6	We seem to want to separate everything into categories.
1:14.6	It can look a little bit like OCD.
1:16.6	And I've been that way ever since I was a kid.
1:19.6	I've always been obsessed with keeping things organized.
1:23.6	And of course it's a way of dealing with anxiety, but also just the way my mind works. I have to organize things in a certain way. And when I was a teenager, my aunt came over to our house, and my mother was showing her around, and she showed her in my room. And my aunt said, this is a teenager's room? Because it was immaculate. Like, everything was put away. It was all organized. My mom said, I know.
1:44.6	She's weird.
1:45.2	She's always been like that.
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