Finding Beauty in Imperfection, feat. Amy Julia Becker (Enneagram 1) [S02-023]
Typology
Ian Morgan Cron
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Enneagram Ones, or the Perfectionists, often have an idealized view of how things should be and constantly strive to improve themselves, others, and the world. With a strong desire to do the right thing and not make mistakes, Ones tend to control feelings that they deem inappropriate to the point that it is difficult for them to access or express negative emotions, such as anger, fear, or even anxiety. But learning to understand that all emotions are actually very human and a part of each of us can be very healing and freeing for a One.
On today's episode, Ian sits down with friend and author, Amy Julia Becker, to talk about how admitting her own needs, and learning to accept herself as beautiful and broken, vulnerable, needy and gifted has been a huge life lesson in perfectionism.
About Amy Julia Becker
Amy Julia Becker is the author of White Picket Fences: Turning toward Love in a World Divided by Privilege (NavPress, 2018). She is also the author of Small Talk: Learning From My Children About What Matters Most (Zondervan, 2014), A Good and Perfect Gift: Faith, Expectations and a Little Girl Named Penny (Bethany House), named one of the Top Books of 2011 by Publisher's Weekly, and Penelope Ayers: A Memoir. A graduate of Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary, her essays about faith, family, and disability have appeared in the Washington Post, USA Today, Christianity Today, the Christian Century, and online for The New York Times, ABCNews, the Atlantic, Vox, and The Huffington Post. Amy Julia is a member of INK: A Creative Collective. She lives with her husband Peter and three children, Penny, William, and Marilee in western CT.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody to the typology podcast. I'm Ian Morgan-Kron and I am so glad to be on the show this week and of course my my good friend producer engineer my |
| 0:16.1 | spiritual |
| 0:17.3 | Guide Anthony Skinner right here in the the studio with me Anthony you good? |
| 0:21.9 | I'm good. He and it's good to be back in the studio with you. Hey, I'm excited about today's show |
| 0:26.2 | Yeah, tell us about our guests. Oh man. We have on our shirt today an old friend of mine actually Amy Julia Becker |
| 0:32.0 | And she is a one on the anyogram a perfectionist |
| 0:36.3 | Fantastic and did you know Anthony that a huge |
| 0:40.5 | According to analytics and everything else a huge |
| 0:44.1 | Number of people who listen to our show are nines and ones nines and ones. That's right and my youngest daughter is a one |
| 0:49.4 | So I'm really looking forward to this episode. All right, so let me tell you guys about Amy Julia Becker often |
| 0:55.0 | Goes by the name AJ |
| 0:57.2 | So Amy Julia is the author of a new book white picket fences turning toward love in a world divided by privilege |
| 1:04.6 | And she's also the author of small talk learning from my children about what matters most that came out in 2014 |
| 1:14.1 | A good and perfect gift faith |
| 1:17.7 | Expectations in a little girl named Penny and well, I hope we're gonna get into a conversation a little bit about Penny with AJ |
| 1:24.0 | And that book was named one of the top books of 2011 by publishers weekly |
| 1:28.7 | I also wrote Penelope Ayers a memoir of faith family and disability |
| 1:33.0 | That's appeared in the Washington Post USA today Christian. Oh, I mean the list goes on and on the Atlantic blah blah blah |
| 1:39.4 | She and her husband Peter who is also an old friend. They got three kids |
| 1:44.0 | Penny William and Merrily and they live in Western Connecticut. That's my old home turf |
| 1:48.1 | It's gonna be a good show |
| 1:49.8 | It's gonna be a good good show today for any of grand ones or for anyone who loves them. AJ. Welcome to typology |
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