Today’s episode is part 2 of 3 on Attachment Types (3-6-9). Rev Nhien, J.D., M.Div. (E3) chats informally with friends & Enneagram-informed relationship & sex therapists Valerie Wanaker, LCSW (E6) and Lyndsey Fraser, MA LMFT CST (E9). Listen in as Nhien, Valerie, and Lyndsey explore Enneagram Attachment Types 3, 6, 9, including the the concept of a “belonging figure,” how the point of learning object relations is to go BEYOND seeing people (and ourselves) in an objectified way. Nhien, Valerie, and Lyndsey share personally about how they have shown up ( grown up and woken up!) in their intimate relationships, in love and sex.

Learn more about Nhien and her work here: https://www.evolvingenneagram.com/

Learn more about Valerie and her work here: https://www.valeriewanamaker.com/

Learn more about Lyndsey and her work here: https://lyndseyfraser.com/

Note from Nhien:

"The world as experience belongs to the basic word I-It. The basic word I-You establishes the world of relation." (Martin Buber, I and Thou, 56)

"Every You in the world is doomed by its nature to become a thing or at least to enter into thinghood again and again. In the language of objects: every thing in the world can—either before or after it becomes a thing—appear to some I as its You. But the language of objects catches only one corner of actual life." (Martin Buber, I and Thou, 69)

What does it mean to go beyond Object Relations? To another as a You and not an It? This is an inquiry I’ve been engaging for years. I’m delighted to share we got to touch on it a bit in this latest episode of our Evolving Enneagram interspiritual podcast.–Nhien