Longing at the Core: Understanding What Drives You

Each Enneagram type is driven by a core desire that fuels both its greatest strengths and its biggest struggles. We will explore how these basic desires shape our lives and how to work with yours in a healthier, more freeing way.

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At the heart of each personality type is a basic desire, a deep inner longing that organizes how you see the world, make decisions, and relate to yourself and others. This core motivation is not inherently problematic. In fact, it is often the source of each type’s greatest gifts, strengths, and contributions. It gives our lives energy and meaning.

However, the ego can co-opt this desire, turning something healthy into something rigid, distorted, and ultimately self-defeating. What begins as a genuine longing for something good can become a compulsive strategy to secure it, often creating the very suffering we are trying to avoid.

In this Intentional Living Circle, we will explore the basic desire for all nine Enneagram types, how it shows up in both healthy and unhealthy ways, and how to recognize when the ego has taken over. We will also look at practical ways to reconnect with the deeper, more life-giving expression of your desire so it becomes a pathway toward growth and freedom rather than limitation.

You will leave with a clearer understanding of what truly drives you and your loved ones and how to work with your motivation more consciously in everyday life.

Bio: Sophia Carmien is an Enneagram teacher and guide who helps people reconnect with their deeper selves by bringing awareness to inner patterns and expanding what’s possible. After experiencing a profound transformation through her own work with the Enneagram, she now shares this tool of ancient wisdom with others. Through teaching, workshops, and one-on-one work, she supports the shift from habitual reactivity to a life of freedom and empowered authenticity. Website: www.essentialwholeness.life

Connecting You with Your Self (CYWY) is a free online community that has been gathering since 2006. Join multi-level yoga classes, a grief support group, energy alignments, and more, including this Circle.

Intentional Living Circles like this focus on Enneagram teachings that invite self-discovery.

The most important relationship you have is the one with your Self.
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Nancy Markow
Founder of CYWY
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