104. The Enneagram: React Less, Connect More with Vrin Rao
In this episode, I invited Leadership and Mindfulness Coach Vrin Rao to explain how to use the Enneagram to become a more intentional and less reactive parent. We explore how understanding your own Enneagram type can offer insights into your parenting style and tendencies. Through real-life examples and practical tips, Vrin provides a roadmap for parents to navigate the challenges of raising teens with mindfulness and empathy. Topics in this episode include: How to use the Enneagram as a tool for understanding personal motivations and reactivity. How the Enneagram differs from other personality frameworks by focusing on inner motivations rather than behaviors. The nine Enneagram types, and how each type's basic desires and fears influence behavior. The importance of self-awareness and compassion in managing your reactions and understanding others. Practical ways to use the Enneagram to improve your parenting skills, specifically in becoming a more composed and less reactive parent to your teenager. -- Vrindavan (Vrin) Rao is a Leadership & Mindfulness Coach who specializes in helping individuals, parents, groups, and teams to decrease their emotional reactivity and overcome self-sabotaging tendencies. She uses the framework of the Enneagram, yoga psychology, and meditation practices to help others solve the question of, "Why do I get in my own way?" Vrin is also a meditation teacher and a lifelong practitioner of nada yoga (the yoga of sound), japa yoga (the yoga of meditative mantra recitation), and kirtan yoga.She has been featured in over twenty podcasts, has been an expert contributor to Career Contessa and Girlboss, and was selected as one of the top meditation coaches by Coach Foundation in 2022. Website: www.illuminate.nyc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/illuminate.nyc/Enneagram Consultation (figure out your Type and/or learn more about it): vrin@illuminate.nyc Receive reflections, and prompts and be the first one to hear about upcoming workshops and events here: https://app.flodesk.com/form/5f3a97529cf975002baa09fd/build -- Apply to work with me Join my free parent group