The Achilles Heel of Every Enneagram Type (And How to Heal It, Including The Five Stages of Grief)

So Hari, could you get us started by sharing what is the Achilles heel in the context of the Enneagram?

Yeah, this is something that we've been looking forward to introducing to our listeners.

It's something that we created actually many years ago based on our understanding of the Enneagram as taught by Don Riso and Russ Hudson at the Enneagram Institute.

And we were trying to boil down what is the suffering that is our undoing.

There is a way in which I cannot accept my and which sheds a lot of light.

So we had processed many, many things to try to come to this point of what is it about ourselves according to our type that we cannot accept? Something inherent to our being that is the cause of our downfall, it's our undoing.

He was completely invulnerable except for his heel.

There's apparently a story that his mother had dangled him into the river Styx and his body became invulnerable through the contact of that river.

But the heel was the means to defeat him because she was holding him by the That was not dipped in the invincible making waters.

So there's something about us, which is so deeply vulnerable.

It's the means of our being undone.

It is how we can never become our real self.

It's because we cannot accept this thing about ourselves.

And we recently were sharing about this in our Upbuild Enneagram training.

And we felt that the impact of to be able to share with you.

So how does the Achilles heel relate to the basic fear of each of the types? Because you could also think of the basic fear as the thing that causes our downfall.

The basic fear is that fear which runs my life, it governs me.

So it is a very, very vital primordial lens for understanding the type.

Now, there's something that that brings about a way that I cannot accept myself because of that fear.

And so it pivots us in a direction which illuminates more insight about the type and what it is that we're struggling with, why we are blocked from being ourselves.

I think the idea of acceptance is a very big part of understanding the Achilles heel.

And each type, as we see, fails to accept their core vulnerability.

And what we will highlight as we go into the types is the idea of acceptance and not acceptance.

The idea of when we don't accept when we have not reached a place where we accept our vulnerability as a type, then we are resisting.

And when we resist, we are making ourselves more vulnerable, more susceptible to the fear.