Your Healing Is Personal
Why understanding your Enneagram type leads to deeper, more sustainable growth
Healing isn’t one-size-fits-all—and that’s actually the good news.
Over the past decade, I’ve walked alongside people navigating grief, burnout, life transitions, and tender reawakenings. And while their stories were unique, I noticed a pattern: the way we heal is deeply shaped by how we relate to our mind, heart, and body—the three centers of intelligence in the Enneagram.
Some of us need to pause and learn to trust.
Others need to feel what we’ve long avoided.
And some of us? We already know what needs to change—we just need the courage to move.
This post offers a map—a soulful guide to three healing paths I see again and again in my work. Rooted in the Enneagram, each path honors your nervous system, your growth style, and your inner wisdom.
But first, a reminder
The Enneagram isn’t just a personality system. It’s a map of how we cope, connect, and grow.
It helps us understand the core patterns we default to under stress—and the direction of our wholeness.
When you know your Enneagram type, you begin to recognize the inner dynamics that keep you stuck—and the practices that can gently move you forward.
Not sure what yours is? Discover your Unique Healing Code here.
This free quiz will help you uncover your Enneagram type, understand your healing style, and explore the kind of support your nervous system actually needs.
Here are the three healing paths for the nine enneagram types, each one working to strength one of the three centers of intelligence: the mind, the heart, and the body.
The Mindful Healing Path
(Enneagram Types 1, 2, and 6)
Coming home to trust.
If you're on this path, your mind likely works overtime.
You might find yourself constantly scanning for what could go wrong (6), wondering if you’re doing enough for others (2), or trying to get it perfect before you can rest (1).
You might even be deep on a healing journey—reading the books, listening to the podcasts—but still feel anxious and disconnected.
That’s because your healing doesn’t come from gathering more information from outside of you.
It comes from learning to pause, soften, and look within so you begin to trust what you know to be true.
Your work isn’t to do more.
It’s to shift from bring mind full to mindful.
What supports these types on their path:
Grounding practices that bring you into the body
Breathwork to interrupt spirals of anxiety or people-pleasing
Self-compassion and boundary work
Tools that help you release the need to control
The Feeling-Based Healing Path
(Types 3, 7, and 8)
Coming home to emotion.
If you're on this path, you might find yourself constantly in motion.
Achieving (3), seeking stimulation and possibility (7), or holding power and intensity (8).
You may appear confident and capable—but beneath the surface, there’s often a long-avoided emotional landscape.
You’ve learned to be strong. To move fast. To keep going when things get tough.
But to slow down and feel your feelings? That part may still feel foreign.
Your healing doesn’t happen when you’re performing.
It happens when you let your guard down and feel what’s real.
To cry. To soften. To speak the truth that scares you.
To learn that vulnerability isn’t weakness—it’s the doorway to connection.
What supports types on this path:
Somatic awareness practices (like placing your hand on your heart or belly)
Safe spaces to process emotion
Breathwork that opens you to what’s underneath
Journaling or voice notes that name the unspoken
Moving away from intensity to lean into intimacy
The Embodied Action Path
(Types 4, 5, and 9)
Coming home to movement.
If this is your path, you likely spend a lot of time in your inner world.
You feel deeply (4), think deeply (5), or prefer to keep the peace and avoid disruption (9).
You may have incredible insight—but often feel stuck when it comes to actually changing your life.
You know what you want.
You just don’t know how to move.
Your healing happens when you begin integrating what you know into how you live.
When you take one embodied step—and then another.
Not perfectly.
Not all at once.
But one step at a time, knowing that movement creates momentum.
What supports this path:
Nervous system regulation to reduce overwhelm and inertia
Creative rituals that include a physical component
Small, steady actions that match your values
Gentle accountability and structure
Movement practices that stir emotion into motion
Why This Matters
Most of us have tried to heal by copying what worked for someone else.
But real healing doesn’t come from following a rigid formula.
It comes from understanding your unique wiring—and choosing tools that support your growth, at your pace.
The Enneagram doesn’t just describe your personality.
It reveals your default coping strategies—and the direction of your wholeness.When you know your type, you begin to see:
Why you shut down under stress
Why some practices feel nourishing and others just feel like pressure
And how you can return to a more authentic, resilient version of yourself
Next Steps
Not sure which healing path is yours?
Take my free quiz: Discover Your Unique Healing Code
It’s a soulful spin on the Enneagram that helps you uncover your growth style, stress patterns, and the support your nervous system actually needs.
Know your type and ready to take the next step?
To start to move through your life in new ways, all nine types need to learn to pause, creating more space between what happens and how you respond to it. That’s why I created The Sacred Pause—a 7-day audio journey of breathwork, stillness, and somatic reflection designed to meet you right where you are on your healing path.
Because healing isn’t something you push through.
It’s something you return to—one breath at a time.
Take my free quiz to Discover Your Unique Healing Code. It’s a soulful spin on the Enneagram that helps you uncover your growth style, stress tendencies, and what your nervous system truly needs to feel safe and alive.
