Comments on: Challenges and Guardrails/Bumpers https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2023/04/13/challenges-and-guardrails-bumpers/ A Global Immersion Site Fri, 21 Apr 2023 01:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Lin Preiss https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2023/04/13/challenges-and-guardrails-bumpers/#comment-277 Fri, 21 Apr 2023 01:13:00 +0000 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/?p=1326#comment-277 Oh my fellow Enneagram 4, ours is a wild, spicy and confounding journey. From what I understand, we who identify as type 4 compare with others as a way of “trying” on pieces to discover our “authentic” self (read: our unique belovedness). And (speaking from my experience at least) it puts us in a lose-lose of riding the high’s of what others tell us and the lows of what we feel we can’t measure up to. Belovedness is the antidote. Yes, to speak it to others but yes, more so, to fortify it internall, letting its truth into the cracks of our tender spaces. This is easy for me to type, and is a daily (moment to moment) habit of leaning into the source of belovedness. So “dive into the word and be back on track” right?!
What I want to know is if you can recall times when you have felt connected to your belovedness; held, known, alive, free? How would you describe it? Do you feel it in the quiet of the winter white trees? What is your body doing? Are there words you’ve ever heard about yourself that came from inside you, but were not “from you”?

]]> By: Lin Preiss https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2023/04/13/challenges-and-guardrails-bumpers/#comment-276 Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:58:08 +0000 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/?p=1326#comment-276 In reply to Jen Manlief.

Amen to that Jen.

]]> By: Jen Manlief https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2023/04/13/challenges-and-guardrails-bumpers/#comment-273 Fri, 14 Apr 2023 06:12:04 +0000 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/?p=1326#comment-273 Brandon, I experience you as thoughtful, introspective, kind, and a comfort to those around you. I see you as a unique voice, and have appreciated each time you share your thoughts and insight. I am glad you are on a journey of seeking to believe in your own belovedness- while I want to reflect that to you, it seems like that feeds into the first part of your post of being unfulfilled by external comparisons- so instead I will pray that you will find that knowledge from within. Regardless, you ARE beloved.

]]> By: Hannah Lutz, NA-23 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2023/04/13/challenges-and-guardrails-bumpers/#comment-270 Fri, 14 Apr 2023 01:52:25 +0000 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/?p=1326#comment-270 Hi Brandon, I really resonate with this. I, too, am a “words of affirmation” person–in the language of The Five Love Languages. It’s so much easier to share those words with others than it is to believe those same words about yourself!

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