The Enneagram Six and Faith | Church, Community & "All Shall Be Well" with Sarah Jackson

Who can I trust? Is this community safe? Is this the leader they say they are?

Wholehearted Enneagram: A Year Through the Types | Type 6 | Episode 4 of 4

These aren't just anxious questions for the Enneagram Six; they're the constant, exhausting background hum of how a Six moves through the world. And nowhere does that hum get louder than in the church.

In this closing episode of Six month, Amy sits down with Sarah Jackson, licensed pastor, spiritual director, seminary graduate, and Type Six, for one of the most theologically rich conversations in the entire series. Sarah brings both her professional formation and her lived experience as a Six navigating church hurt, leadership dynamics, and the lifelong work of learning to trust God, community, and herself.

She talks about the Six's defense mechanism of splitting, how it quietly applies to God himself, and what it means to hold nuance instead of constantly dividing the world into safe and unsafe, good and bad. She introduces the grief practice that quiets the inner committee when nothing else will. She draws on Julian of Norwich, "all shall be well" as the deepest expression of what a Six most longs to believe. And she offers one of the most practical spiritual tools in the series: the welcoming prayer.

This is a beautiful close to a month that has asked a lot of the Six and offered even more in return.

In this episode:

• Why the Six is one of the hardest types to self-identify, and why the Six resists hearing descriptions of herself
• Church hurt through a Six lens on how to differentiate the institution from the people in it
• The Six's constant "vibe check" all in or deeply skeptical, with not much in between
• Performance community vs. genuine community and why the distinction matters so much to a Six
• Anger as anxiety in disguise, what Sarah's husband sees when she's scared
• Grief is the quieter of the inner committee and the most unexpected spiritual practice in the episode
• Splitting as the Six's defense mechanism and how it applies to God
• Julian of Norwich and the Six's deepest longing: "All shall be well"
• The welcoming prayer, a practical liturgy for releasing control and receiving love
• Moses, as the Six's biblical hero, was scared but went in anyway

Sarah Jackson is a licensed pastor, spiritual director, and Enneagram practitioner serving with her husband who leads the Communion of Saints church in Colorado Springs.

Connect with Sarah: https://threehere.com/