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Courtney Smith is a highly effective and unique coach who helps people get unstuck using a wide variety of tools, including the Enneagram. After my book On Our Best Behavior came out, people fairly asked me, okay, so now how do I evolve beyond this framework? And that's what I've been creating with Courtney, an actionable workbook with a set of practical tools that will come out next year: Choosing Wholeness Over Goodness: A Process to Reclaiming Your Full Self I'll say a little bit more about our workbook, but I wanted to have Courtney back on the podcast in this post-election period to share a perspective and some tools that I think many of us could use right now when collective anxiety is running high. Ee're going to try to get a handle on how we're reacting to situations in this moment. We're going to talk about being below versus above the line and how we can get above the line once we're ready to go there. We're going to talk about recognizing when we're being motivated by anticipatory fear or a desire to prove our goodness and how we might feel and show up if we chose to be motivated by something else. Instead, we'll also do a review of the drama triangle. We did a whole episode on it: Understanding the Drama Triangle. And most importantly, we'll consider when we're willing and not willing to alter our stories and why both positions can be powerful.

OUR WORKBOOK: Choosing Wholeness Over Goodness: A Process to Reclaiming Your Full Self

Second Pulling the Thread episode: “Understanding the Drama Triangle”

First Pulling the Thread episode: “The Practical Magic of the Enneagram”

Courtney’s Website

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