The Blindspot An Enneagram Podcast
The Blindspot is an Enneagram podcast that explores the way the instinctual drives impact the manifestation of Enneatype. We specifically focus on ways of working with the instinctual blindspot to support personal growth. The host is Kara Nance who uses Jungian psychology, Marshall Rosenbergs Nonviolent Communication, Sarah Peyton’s Resonant Healing, and mindfulness based techniques to support her clients.
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Saturday Mar 09, 2024
Saturday Mar 09, 2024
Meet Karl Hebenstreit, Author, International Speaker, Executive Coach, and Human Resources and Organization Development Leader with 25+ years of experience in the biotechnology, healthcare, telecommunications, high-tech, pharmaceutical, and real estate services industries. . Karl has just released the third edition of his book "The How and Why: Taking Care of Business with the Enneagram". Karl and I discuss some commen Enneagram patterns he sees in the corporate world and how he works with them. Karl is also the author of the children's book, "Nina and the Really, Really Tough Decision."
Get Karl's book here https://www.amazon.com/How-Why-Taking-Business-Enneagram-ebook/dp/B0CJLQGS3K?ref_=ast_author_mpb
Saturday Mar 16, 2024
Saturday Mar 16, 2024
Denzel Mensah is back on the show with me for a series on how typology can be a powerful tool for finding your romantic relationship blindspots. Meet Marlene, an INFP on the journey towards finding her Enneagram type and instinctual stack. Marlene vulnerably shares her experience of infidelity and the unraveling of her long term relationship. Please visit my website at KaraNanceMD.com and contact me if you are interested in sharing your story and learning and growing with Denzel and I.
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
Marlene is back to hear the reflections that Denzel and I have about her typology session. Enneagram type and instinctual stack are clarified.
Sunday Mar 08, 2026
Sunday Mar 08, 2026
Damian Russel, author of Enneagram Through the Ages, and Krista Hand join Dr. Kara Nance in a discussion abut the Enneagram's three instinctual drives—Self-Preservation, Sexual (or attraction), and Social—and their profound impact on our psychological, physical, and spiritual well-being. Rooted deeply in our neurobiology and evolutionary survival, these instincts dictate how we meet our basic human needs and react to the world around us. The discussion highlights that individuals prioritize these drives in a unique hierarchical "stack," consisting of a dominant instinct that acts as a core defense system, a supportive secondary instinct, and a neglected "blind spot". Furthermore, the episode examines how cultural conditioning, modern daily stress, and trauma can cause these primal drives to become imbalanced or lead to dysregulation and addictive behaviors. Ultimately, the conversation emphasizes that by engaging in somatic practices like mindful breathing and bodily awareness, we can regulate our nervous systems, balance our instinctual stack, and integrate our primal animal nature with our higher spiritual consciousness.
Monday Mar 16, 2026
Monday Mar 16, 2026
The Self-Preservation instinct is the fundamental drive for physical survival, well-being, and aliveness, operating primarily across three practical zones: self-care, resource maintenance, and domesticity. Although naturally designed to help human beings thrive and evolve, this instinct frequently becomes distorted by early childhood trauma, emotional wounding, and unconscious autonomy conflicts, causing the ego to co-opt it through fear, scarcity, and rigid habits. Consequently, people often mistake mere familiarity and comfort for genuine well-being, leading to extreme behaviors that range from obsessive hoarding and health anxiety to the complete neglect of their physical needs. Ultimately, transforming this drive requires specific practices—such as deep bodily sensing and grounding—to liberate it from past conditioning, allowing our natural life force to harmonize with our spiritual development and support a truly balanced, awakened life.
What are Enneagram Blindspots?
The instinctual drives, self preservation (SP), social (SO), and sexual (SX) are the three forces that fuel every aspect of human behavior. A person’s Enneagram Type is the strategy that the personality has chosen to meet the instinctual needs. Personal growth happens when we can learn to become more aware of these patterns so that we can have more freedom from our identity structure.
Becoming conscious of the instinctual blindspot is one of the most practical, effective ways of getting out of the habitual patterns created by a person’s instinctual stack plus Enneatype. Working with the blindspot not only allows us to express a more balanced expression of the instincts, but also frees the heart, mind, and body from the forces that constrain their true expression. Working with our blindspots allows our three centers to integrate and come into their own, rather than being hi-jacked by the agenda of our dominant instinct. In addition to the instinctual blindspot, our Enneagram types, object relations, and past trauma also create an array of other blindspots, or shadows. It is important to acknowledge that we cannot become aware of what we are blind to, or can’t see, which is why this work can’t be done in isolation. Because we all have an instinctual blindspot, we need mirroring, modeling, and support from other people. While there is a portion of personal growth work that we must and can only do by ourselves, a portion must also be done with other people because our personality is set up to prevent us from seeing our blindspots. John and Kara are deeply committed to their own personal work, and are passionate about supporting others, and creating learning communities in which we can learn and grow together.