Western NY Enneagram Coach || Elisa Preston || When things go C-R-A-Z-Y, how does each Enneagram define comfort? What are their typical expressions of comfort, and how can we bring comfort to our people based on who they are & what they need?

Western NY Enneagram Coach || Elisa Preston || When we’re forced into a change in our daily rhythm, how does each personality type respond? And how can each personality type handle that rhythm change in a healthier, more compassionate way, toward themselves & their people?

Western NY Enneagram Coach || Elisa Preston || How does anxiety show up for each Enneagram type, and what can we each do about it to make our way to peace?

Western NY Enneagram Coach || Elisa Preston || How do our first relationships in life—with parents, peers, siblings, caretakers—impact our adult relationships? Though there are a myriad neurological, psychological, and spiritual reasons for this, the fact remains: we form expectations for our adult relationships (what we can control) based on our life’s first relationships (what we could not control).

Western NY Enneagram Coach || Elisa Preston || When the vending machine of life dispenses disappointment, how do you respond? The Enneagram framework offers three conflict coping styles: reacting, logical, optimistic. We either emotionally react, emotionally withdraw, or reframe the negativity.

Western NY Enneagram Coach || Elisa Preston || How every Enneagram type expresses their ‘people skills’ depends on the interpersonal coping stance they take. Do they move away from people in order to get their needs met? Do they move against people? Or do they move toward people? There is no one right way, but there is a healthy way for each stance.

Western NY Enneagram Coach || Elisa Preston || Your personality has a blind spot. Behaviors that we exhibit is our laziest, most relationally relaxed environments. Every Enneagram type shows different blind spot patterns - find yours along with one practical tip for growing up and out of one of your personality blind spots.

Western NY Enneagram Coach || Elisa Preston || When your life needs a pivot, or when a pivot is forced upon you, how do you react/respond? Every Enneagram type approaches & reacts to life’s many changes differently. Why does a 7 tend to avoid change if they’re all about THE FUN? Why does a 5 like change when they know it’s coming but has a hard time rolling with the punches? Read on to find out and to answer

Western NY Enneagram Coach || Elisa Preston || Every Enneagram type has a core fear, but what does that look like? And how can we each overcome it?

Western NY Enneagram Coach || Elisa Preston || Play should be a daily habit, built into our rhythm. How does every Enneagram type have fun differently? Find out here.

Western NY Enneagram Coach || Elisa Preston || Rest should be a daily habit, built into our rhythm. How does every Enneagram type rest differently? Find out here.

Western NY Enneagram Coach || Elisa Preston || Some relationships are easier than others, but (just about) all are possible if you want them to be. Find out how every Enneagram type works with every other type. What you each bring to the relationship table, based on your personality combo, can be a game-changer.

Western NY Enneagram Coach || Elisa Preston || Just as we approach friendships differently, we approach conflict in those friendships differently. It’s all about what motivates us — why we say, think & do what we say, think & do. Understanding how we & others approach friendship conflict can deepen our relationships, make our world better & brighter, and make the love louder.

Western NY Enneagram Coach || Elisa Preston || The way we each approach the friendships of our lives is vastly different. What matters to us is different, and why we stick around our friendships varies from person to person, and from personality type to personality type. It’s not like when we were 5 & making friends was as easy as A-B-C-1-2-3. Find out how each Enneagram type approaches friendships, how the express it, and one friend pick-up line they might use in the beginning of a new friendship.

Western NY Enneagram Coach || Elisa Preston || The way we mark our seasons & our lives is different from one person to the next. Personality type is a great window into seeing how we and each other mark our seasons & our lives. I consider those markings little breadcrumbs — clues into the deepest parts of who we are & who we’re meant to be.

The Optimist.
The joy-bringer & joy-bearer.
The Entertainer.

The friend who can’t always listen through the tears because she gets bored, but the one who shows up with a million laughs to make up for it.

The Loyalist.
The Guardian.
The Most Prepared One in the Room.

The Enneagram 6 is the mom with the extra snacks, the hiking guide with the extra socks, the friend with the extra whatever you need because they knew what you’d need before you got there. All because they like to be ready for whatever might come their way.

The curious cat.
The Investigative Thinker.
The Energizer Bunny With a Curfew.

The Enneagram 5 is the natural observer in your life. They absorb a lot. They love to learn. They love to know things. They conserve energy by planning & knowing & planning to know.

The romantic.
The individualist.
The deep feeler.

The Enneagram 4 in your life is one who carries a deep sense of being defective. It takes a lot of work and compassion—from self and others—to convince our 4s that they are loved & valued. They have so much to offer, if we would only keep our ear tuned to their words & feelings.

The achiever.
The performer.
The to-do list checker-offer.

The Enneagram 3 is a special kind of energy. It is an energy that can’t stop, won’t stop, until the job is done well and until it’s done very, very well. Also called the shape-shifter, the Enneagram 3 knows how to be who they need to be in the moment they need to be it. A superpower & a burden, all in one.