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<b>From Instagram’s snarkiest Enneagram expert comes a hilarious and insightful book that shows how embracing our shadow side is our best path toward greater self-awareness and compassion.</b><br><br>Most Enneagram books focus on stroking ego rather than challenging it. Elizabeth Orr’s <i>The Unfiltered Enneagram</i> offers practical strategies for liberating yourself from your own garbage. It’s a humorous, no-frills reckoning with our shadow side—the ways we cope with stress or fear—that unlocks the life-changing wisdom of this popular personality typology system. Readers will discover that courageously and comically acknowledging the worst attributes of their Enneagram Type can bring out the best in themselves.<br><br>Filled with laugh-out-loud descriptions, sobering truths, and inspiring prompts, each chapter is an under-the-rug look at the nine Enneagram Personality Types:<br><br>• <b>Type One—</b><i>R</i> Is for <i>Reformer</i> (and <i>Resentment</i>)<br>• <b>Type Two—</b>Self-Sacrifice with Some Serious Strings Attached<br>• <b>Type Three—</b>Hall of Mirrors in a House of Cards<br>• <b>Type Four—</b>Feelin’ Misunderstood (and I’m Going to Make It Your Problem)<br>• <b>Type Five—</b>When Intellectual Maximalism Meets Emotional Minimalism<br>• <b>Type Six—</b>Who Needs Trust When I’ve Got Projection?<br>• <b>Type Seven—</b>The Paradoxical Paralysis of Making Too Many Awesome Plans<br>• <b>Type Eight—</b>Large, in Charge, and <i>Just</i> This Side of Belligerent<br>• <b>Type Nine</b>—Comfortably Numb (and Impressively Stubborn)<br><br>Insightful for long-time Enneagram enthusiasts, pragmatic for newer fans, and hilarious and accessible for everyone, <i>The Unfiltered Enneagram</i> shines a generous light on the good, the bad, and the ugly sides of us all—inviting us to see that the only way to find self-compassion is to embrace wholeness.