Exploring the Shadow with Jonathan Merritt (Enneagram 3)

Typology

Ian Morgan Cron

Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Christianity

4.7 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Whether there's a three in your life or you are a three yourself, you're probably aware that threes are not naturally self-reflective. They tend to be externally focused rather than internally focused. The big message that threes receive growing up is that it's not okay to have your own feelings and identity, so they expend a lot of energy creating, projecting and maintaining a false image in order to be admired and accepted.

Projecting this false image makes it very challenging for three's to answer the question, "Who am I behind the mask?" Let's face it, self-acceptance is difficult for all of us, but it is particularly difficult, for twos, threes and fours in the feeling space. So, I think a very important part of the journey for threes is reclaiming and integrating that splintered child that got thrown into the shadow large pieces of him that need to be owned again.

This week, author/writer Jonathan Merritt joins me in a discussion about processing the pain behind the mask and pushing past the lies we tell ourselves in order to move closer to self-acceptance.

A contributing writer for The Atlantic and a contributing editor for The Week, Jonathan Merritt is one of America's most prolific and trusted faith and culture writers. He has published more than 3,000 articles in outlets such as the New York Times, USA Today, National Journal, Christianity Today, Washington Post, and CNN.com and is the author of numerous critically acclaimed books including Jesus is Better Than You Imagined.

Jonathan holds graduate degrees from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and Emory University's Candler School of Theology. He resides in Brooklyn, NY.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey folks and welcome to typology. The show in which you explore the mystery of the human
0:10.3	personality through the lens of the Enneagram. I'm Anthony Skinner, producer of the show and
0:15.7	we want to congratulate Ian on the success of his book The Road Back to You and Enneagram
0:22.0	Journey to Self Discovery having sold over 200,000 copies now. If you haven't read The Road Back
0:29.2	to You, you can grab it at Amazon, iTunes or wherever your local books are sold so make sure
0:33.9	you grab a copy. And we recognize that we have a large worldwide listening audience, but for those
0:40.1	of you who live in the US and have just finished celebrating the Thanksgiving holidays or those of
0:46.4	you who are traveling abroad and celebrate Thanksgiving, we hope you had a happy holidays and
0:51.8	you are recovering from all that turkey and stuffing that you have eaten. Hey lastly before we get
0:58.3	to today's show, we want to thank our listening audience for helping typology to become such a
1:03.7	success with over 3 million downloads. That's right. Thank you all so much for listening and for
1:10.0	sharing with your friends and with your family all of the great work that Ian is doing. Speaking of
1:15.7	Ian, that's it for me Anthony Skinner and without further ado, now here is the host of our show, Ian
1:22.4	Cron. So our guest today is Jonathan Merritt and for those of you who don't know him, he's a
1:35.3	contributing writer for the Atlantic and a contributing editor for the week. He's one of America's
1:42.2	most prolific and trusted faith and culture writers. He's published more than 3,000 articles,
1:47.5	3,000 articles Jonathan. That is the count. Somebody did that somewhere. Man you got you got to get
1:54.7	out a little more. He's published more than 3,000 articles and outlets such as The New York Times,
2:00.0	USA Today National Journal Christianity Today, Washington Post and CNN dot com author of numerous
2:08.7	critically acclaimed books including his latest Jesus is no that's not your latest your latest book
2:15.8	the latest book is is learning to speak God from scratch. Oh what a great title but your last one
2:21.7	was Jesus is better than you imagined. Yes that's correct. Wow great great titles man. Well
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ian Morgan Cron, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ian Morgan Cron and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.