“Before I love someone else, I’ve got to love myself.” Recognize that line from the song “Save Myself” by Ed Sheeran? Or maybe you have heard “Lose You To Love Me” by Selena Gomez? Those two songs talk about loving yourself before you get into a romantic relationship.
But how do I love myself, and why is it important to love yourself before going into a relationship? Like a lot of teens, I have questions on this topic, so I decided to invite my crazily artistic, fun-loving and beautiful aunt to coffee to talk about it.
Hannah Johnson has an undergraduate degree in psychology and was recently accepted into Gonzaga to pursue a masters in school counseling and become a licensed professional counselor. We decided to go to The Garden Coffee and Local Eats, and she brought along her 5-year-old son, Oakley, who was kind enough to take our picture for this story. The coffee was so good! I was trying hard to focus on the subject at hand, but my mind would go back to my delicious blended mocha.
Hannah wisely approached this subject with a definition.
”I think it’s important to define self love as valuing yourself as a whole and having confidence in who you are; it’s important to recognize that it’s different from simply comparing yourself to others or being self-focused,” she said. “Some people think it’s narcissistic, but it’s really just having a value of yourself and where you’re at. Self love is just a healthy view of yourself; it’s healthy for everybody.”
Hannah Johnson and Kylie Johnson enjoy chilly beverages and meaningful conversation at The Garden Coffee and Local Eats (prior to recent COVID-19 restrictions). Photo credit: Oakley Johnson, 5-year-old master photographer
How could I build my self love? Like a lot of people, I can be pretty hard on myself, and I could work on building my self-compassion. Hannah gave multiple great points, such as following positive accounts on Instagram, doing fun leisure activities and building social connections.
“Your peers can influence you even more than a trusted adult, parent or guardian,” she said. “If your peers are not boosting your self-esteem, then you need to notice that and maybe put some distance there.”
What does self love look like when you’re ready to go into a romantic relationship? Hannah listed three areas to get right first. The first one is self kindness; don’t criticize yourself for your flaws. Then you need to realize your common humanity, which is that everyone makes mistakes and acknowledging the weaknesses you have makes you human. The final step is mindfulness, which is to be aware of negative self talk. All of us can grow in an area or two, but that’s no reason to beat yourself up about it.
Wait … if you don’t love yourself and you dive into a romantic relationship, is that really a bad thing? How would it affect the relationship? Would it affect the relationship?
”It can totally affect your relationship because if you don’t recognize your own self worth then you can begin to expect others to fill that hole,” she said. “You also won’t be able to protect yourself and stand up for yourself in tough situations.”
“Some people think it’s narcissistic, but it’s really just having a value of yourself and where you’re at. Self love is just a healthy view of yourself; it’s healthy for everybody.”
Hannah Johnson
Hannah also said that if your self love is at an unhealthy spot it will negatively affect both sides of the relationship. One person will need to take more than they can give, which is exhausting for both people.
That makes sense, but what should I do if I’m in a relationship when one person does not have a healthy amount of self love? Hannah suggested that in these seasons, the healthier partner needs to have sensitivity and awareness and help the other person practice self love. Self love isn’t going to be natural for everybody. If it’s at a really unhealthy point, then you may need to break it off and give them time to focus on themselves. If they are hurting themselves, then it will be harder but still be the right thing to do.
”In the end, everyone is responsible for their own actions,” Hannah said.
If you need to work on self love and you’re in a romantic relationship, you need to realize that it’s not selfish to take time to yourself and break it off, if that’s what you feel like you need to do. You should know that it’s not the other person’s responsibility to carry your negative self talk burden and that you can’t rely on them to feel good. In either situation, it’s never bad to go and talk to a counselor or someone you trust so they can give you input.
Hannah and I sure had some deep conversations about this topic while little Oakley played on his tablet and my phone. Our drinks were amazing, and I absolutely loved the vibe and atmosphere of The Garden. It was a great place to just share a treat with a loved one and talk. I learned so much more about this topic because of Hannah and give her much thanks. I’m glad I could show myself a little love with the blended mocha and whether it’s with a coffee or just giving myself grace, I think I’m going to start treating myself more often.
Guest contributor Kylie Johnson is a freshman at Mica Peak High School in Spokane Valley. She drinks blended mochas, eats ice cream by the pint and plans to marry Five Seconds of Summer drummer Ashton Irwin. Until they get the chance to actually meet, she is focusing on self-compassion.
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Three things a Valley trio learned opening a coffee shop far from home
Before they wanted to quit 5,000 times, a trio of Spokane Valley residents set out to open a coffee shop in Costa Rica. Since that moment nearly three years ago, a combination of perseverance and “pura vida” resulted in the popular San Ramon destination, Elements Coffee House.
It’s a decision that has impacted thousands of lives for good: The team of eight local employees they treat like family; the community of Ticos (Costa Ricans) who pack the venue for their most important celebrations; the Gringos (expats) who have found “a perfect combination of the comforts of home with the taste of Costa Rica,” as one five-star reviewer put it.
The layout of Elements Coffee House …
… includes beautiful second-floor views.
The coffee house and adjoining TEN Degrees Coffee Roasters have enjoyed acclaim for excellent customer service and sourcing local ingredients and products. Even so, Spokane Valley’s Kent and Dina Johnson and partner Malcolm Wicks will tell you there are far less time-consuming — and far more lucrative — ways to achieve ROI than Costa Rican cafes.
“We thought about closing it 5,000 times, 20 times a day,” Kent said.
For Kent, perhaps it was the fact he worked remotely for his full-time “real job” at Liberty Lake-based Itron while simultaneously building a coffee shop from scratch in a foreign country. (The Johnsons lived in Costa Rica from February 2012 to June 2019.)
For Malcolm, maybe it was the three-week window he chiseled to be away from his Spokane Valley coffee businesses to travel to Costa Rica, set up the shop and train employees — only to have all the equipment he needed stuck in customs until the day after he returned home. (Malcolm owns Grinders Coffee and its next door roaster, Bumper Crop Coffee, at 14505 E. Trent Ave.)
For Dina, it might have been the hundreds of hours waiting in line at third-world government offices to meet always-shifting requirements and obtain ever-elusive approvals. On one such occasion, a contextual misunderstanding of the Spanish word “timbre” had her thinking she needed to complete an application by providing the clerk with a doorbell. The woman was actually asking Dina for a 10-cent stamp, and eventually cleared up matters by providing it for her.
“I’m so thankful she had one, because I probably would have gone down to the hardware store and actually brought back a doorbell to give to her, because it seriously would not have surprised me,” Dina said.
Not that this marathon of hurdles has seen its finish line. In the week of our November interview, the Spokane Valley owners were troubleshooting a wonky ice machine from 3,200 miles away and finalizing details for a vacationing friend-of-a-friend to deliver a commercial grade kitchen mixer to Costa Rica as an extra suitcase.
Has it all been worth it? If life is to be measured on a spreadsheet, the jury is out. But like explaining that perfect cup of coffee, there are layers of this experience that run deeper: notes of deep fulfillment and accomplishment, fresh textures of the human experience, and — best of all — a richness in relationship.
So here are three of Kent, Dina and Malcolm’s favorite takeaways from their experience — in case, you know, you don’t get around to opening a coffee shop in Costa Rica yourself.
1. Embrace the ‘Pura Vida’ perspective
Ask an American teenager, and Pura Vida is a bracelet company. But in Costa Rica, it’s everything. Translated with expressions like “pure life,” “positive vibes” and “no worries,” it serves as an aloha-like greeting, but it’s also used as an attitude-checking response to the ups and downs of living.
“We used it a lot when we came up against those different obstacles, like, ‘Pura Vida, what are you going to do about it? This is life, and you have to just accept it and walk through it,’” Dina explained.
But it’s more than a Costa Rican spin on the “no worries” catchphrase — it’s regularly lived out in the culture.
When Malcolm was in Costa Rica for three weeks, unable to do any of the most pressing tasks on his itinerary, he was staying with the 25-year-old manager of Elements Coffee House, Jeanka, a longtime family friend of the Johnsons.
In Malcolm’s own words, Jeanka got to see the “chop-chop-chop” American culture coming out of him: “I was raving about something, not happy with how things were going, and he was like, ‘Look, man, there’s only one thing in life you can’t fix.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, what’s that?’ And he said, ‘Death.’ That was his response to me getting wound up. … It made me sit back and put things in perspective. Nobody’s dying, so yeah, I do need to chill out a little bit.”
Not that Jeanka lacks zeal for his work.
“He is passionate about things, but I’ve also heard him say a number of times, ‘Well, what can I do about that?’” Kent recalled. “And literally if there is nothing you can do about it, then why do you freak out about it and spend that much energy on it?”
“Pura Vida”: Perhaps another translation is “lower blood pressure.”
Elements Coffee House in San Ramon, Costa Rica is owned by Spokane Valley partners Kent and Dina Johnson and Malcolm Wicks.
2. Ask yourself if you need it
About 90 percent of Costa Rican coffee is exported. The 10 percent that remains for local consumption is affectionately referred to by Ticos as “the garbage,” Kent explained. Not to be fooled, the coffee that doesn’t pass muster for export is still very good, and it’s widely consumed as part of a true “coffee culture.”
“The toddlers drink coffee; (people) drink it all day and all night,” Kent said.
They enjoy this “garbage” with milk and sugar, if available, or drink it black. Skimping on unnecessary ingredients is part of a cultural value of getting by simply.
When Malcolm moved in with Jeanka for his first three-week stint in country, the young man lacked a refrigerator. Malcolm wondered how he would store the groceries during his stay, so he bought Jeanka a fridge. Two or three days later, Malcolm approached Jeanka about the rag they used to wipe down the glass door on the apartment shower.
“I said, ‘Jeanka, we need to go get you a squeegee and wipe this down with a squeegee,’” Malcolm said. “What’s a squeegee — three bucks? … And he was like, ‘Look man, if you don’t have it, you don’t need it.’ That was his response. And it’s just the way they live.”
Look man, if you don’t have it, you don’t need it.
Jeanka, Manager of Elements Coffee House
The response made a deep impression, causing Malcolm to wish this minimalist perspective would not only rub off on him, but on the America he would soon be re-entering.
For Malcolm, the lesson was more than a conviction about personal consumption. He also noticed this perspective caused people to treat one another with greater humanity. While there isn’t a middle class to speak of in Costa Rica, the rich and poor seem to coexist without stigma, not measuring their human success in terms of wealth.
“There’s a different way than what we typically see done, and it’s OK,” Malcolm said. “It’s like, ‘If you need it and I have it, then it’s yours.’”
3. Place proper priority on relationships
In Costa Rican coffee culture, you don’t grab and go; you sit and talk, Dina explained.
“Every day, they drink at 9 o’clock and 3 o’clock; it’s coffee hour for them,” she said. “It’s relational. This is what they do. They invite you over for coffee.”
The busiest day of the year for Elements Coffee House? Mother’s Day. Indeed, the culture seems intent on making a statement that people are not part of a checklist, but simply the priority that will always trump the checklist. In this way, the coffee and relational aspects of Costa Rican culture are linked.
Living with Costa Rican neighbors for seven years, the Johnsons’ decision to move back to Spokane Valley in June caused no shortage of mourning for the relationships that had been formed. Perhaps the hardest goodbye was to their longtime neighbors, Jeanka’s family.
“The dad was just sitting by the curb and crying,” Kent recalled. “He just said thanks for all you have done for Jeanka.”
Malcolm Wicks and Kent Johnson, at left, tour a Costa Rican coffee farm with its owner (standing) and Jeanka, the now 25-year-old manager of Elements Coffee House.
While Malcolm was never a longtime resident of the country, Jeanka’s family left a similar impression on him. On his first day in Costa Rica, Jeanka asked him what he wanted to be sure to do or see on his visit. His only request: An authentic meal. Jeanka said he would have his mom cook him something, and then Malcolm thought he must have forgotten about it, because he didn’t hear another thing about it the entire three weeks.
While eating dinner on his final night before returning to the States, Jeanka suddenly showed up and interrupted the meal.
“We got to go to my mom’s right now,” he announced. “My brother is coming to pick us up.”
Malcolm asked if they could just say goodbye to her in the morning before heading to the airport.
“No, you don’t understand,” Jeanka shook his head. “She cooked; we got to go.”
An hour later, Malcolm walked into the humble Costa Rican home.
“It dawned on me at that point what had transpired over the course of the last three weeks. It literally took her three weeks to source the ingredients she wanted to prepare this one meal for me,” Malcolm said, explaining how she had likely had to save money to purchase some of the ingredients and bartered for others. “In that moment, it was the best food I’d ever eaten, and I sat there and bawled for probably 15 minutes in front of this lady I’d met once. But she understood it; Jeanka understood. And the bond with that family for my family will never be broken.”
In the Beginning
The makings of an unlikely Costa Rican coffee partnership
Malcolm Wicks spent the better part of four hours scaring his friends away from the coffee business.
The owner of Grinders Coffee and its next-door roaster, Bumper Crop Coffee, at 14505 E. Trent Ave., Malcolm knows firsthand how complicated and financially uncertain the industry is in Spokane Valley, let alone Costa Rica.
Kent Johnson showed up for that February 2017 conversation in the Bumper Crop loft with “four or five questions” connected to his dream of opening a coffee shop in San Ramon, Costa Rica, with his wife, Dina.
“I left with the biggest pit in my stomach I’ve ever had in my life,” he recalled.
Dina could see the reality check written all over his face.
“He came home to me, and he said, ‘We don’t know what we’re doing. There’s no way we can do this. We do not know enough,’” Dina remembered. “And he said, ‘I think we just need to hold off on this.’”
Kent’s recollection was even more blunt: “I was done.”
He prayed about it that evening, effectively handing the dream off to the Lord with the acknowledgement that resuscitation would require a miracle.
At approximately 9:30 the next morning, he received a text message. The dream was back on.
* * *
Malcolm and Kent first connected on Newman Lake in the 1990s over a shared love of wakeboarding. As their families grew, so did their friendship. Highlights include the year Malcolm’s wife, Dani, had the Johnsons’ daughter in her fourth grade class. The families spent years barbecuing and snowboarding together before Kent and Dina vacationed to Costa Rica in June 2011 — and fell in love with the country. By the following February, Kent had gained permission to work his Itron HR job remotely, and the Johnson family became full-time residents in the hills northwest of San Jose.
Since their first trip in 2011, Kent and Dina Johnson’s Costa Rica experience has been a family affair, shared with two adult children (27 and 24), and their two youngest sons, ages 14 and 10.
The fateful meeting with Malcolm came five years into their Costa Rican adventure, with the Johnsons well along in the process of investing in a local business. They had looked into vacation homes and private car rentals, but nothing appealed to them quite like the idea of starting a coffee shop. On a vacation to visit family and friends back in Spokane Valley, Kent looked to his friend Malcolm to help sharpen the idea.
“I left the meeting going, ‘Those guys are going to fail. They can’t do this,’” Malcolm said. “My whole mission was to talk them out of doing it.”
But then a strange thing happened. He found himself thinking about how some of the best coffee in the world is farmed 30 minutes up the hill from the Johnsons’ proposed venture, how he owned a backup roaster that was just taking up space in the Bumper Crop shop, how many of the pitfalls awaiting his business-savvy friends were tied to their lack of coffee experience — experience he had in spades.
“The next morning I woke up, and I said, ‘Dani, I think we should try to partner with these guys and do this down there,’” Malcolm said. “I was thinking she would be like, ‘What? Why would we do that? We don’t want to get involved in that.’ But she was just like, no hesitation, black and white, ‘Yeah, I think you should do that. That’s a great idea.’ So I took that as like, ‘OK, I should at least propose this.’”
And he sent a text.
Coffee Notes
When we met in November in the loft of Malcolm Wicks’ Bumper Crop Coffee on Trent, he had just finished roasting a batch of beans from China. My first experience with the rare Chinese coffee industry, these beans showed hints of blueberry and left me wanting to waltz into Malcolm’s roastery more often.
Kent and Dina Johnson’s favorite coffee in the world is, of course, their own TEN Degrees variety. The beans are purchased 30 minutes up the hill from a collection of small farms that specialize in growing high-altitude Arabica coffee in Costa Rica’s famous West Valley growing region. The Johnsons roast the beans at TEN Degrees, which has its own space next to Elements Coffee House in San Ramon.
For coffee that doesn’t require travel to Central America, the Johnsons recommend picking up one of their two favorite Bumper Crop single origin roasts: Santa Rosa (from Honduras) and Sidamo (a popular coffee-growing region in Ethiopia). Find them at bumpercropcoffee.com.
Huge thanks to Dina and Kent Johnson for sharing their Costa Rican adventures with me, as well as Malcolm Wicks (not pictured) — Josh Johnson (soccer jersey: Borussia Dortmund)
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Twos, I need your help. A friend of mine is trying to track down a specific T-shirt to wear to an upcoming Enneagram training at his workplace.
It reads, “I’m whichever number doesn’t care about the Enneagram.”
Yeah, he’s that guy. (Cough: What an Eight! … Or maybe a Four who doesn’t want to be put in a box?)
By now, I have either caught you completely Ennea-unaware, or you’re rightfully accusing me of drive-by typecasting — totally misusing what has become one of my favorite aids for personal and relational growth. Kim and I picked up a book about the Enneagram this summer. Reading it together was like fog lifting out of San Francisco Bay.
Rachel Briscoe
An experience like that makes you want to engage further, so we scheduled coffee with Rachel Briscoe, a personal and business coach, at The Garden Coffee & Local Eats in Spokane Valley. Rachel is passionate about “digging in deep with people and helping them go from where they are now to where they were created to go,” and the Enneagram is one of her favorite vehicles to aid this transformation.
“When I was first introduced to the Enneagram, I tried it on, and it fit so well,” she said. “It’s like somebody lifted the veil, and all the work I needed to do in my own heart to take that next step was just laid out.”
The Enneagram breaks down nine basic personality types.
“It’s an intimate way of understanding who you are, how you show up in the world and how the world best receives you,” Rachel said. “Once you have that understanding, it gives you more compassion for yourself and more compassion for others.”
“It’s an intimate way of understanding who you are, how you show up in the world and how the world best receives you.”
Rachel Briscoe
What happened next in our conversation was equivalent to a 5-year-old picking up a running chainsaw at a Christmas tree farm.
I was the 5-year-old, and I essentially said: “That’s so cool Rachel guess what I’m a Nine and so how can I be a better parent and friend and husband and if it helps Kim’s a One (makes sense, huh) — oh, and then tell me the same thing about all the other types so I can help all my friends and then write about it.”
Then my Nine kicked in: “But whatever you think would be best.”
Fortunately, Rachel knows how to handle kids with chainsaws. The Enneagram is a tool, and like any tool it can be used poorly — in ways that are inefficient at best and destructive at worst. So before Rachel answered all my questions, she shared some guidelines for wise use of this powerful tool in relationships.
Leave room to be different Ever been confused why your spouse or friend isn’t showing up the same way you are showing up for the relationship?
“The Enneagram gives us the power to have compassion and to understand that there are nine ways to be normal,” Rachel said. “When we understand this is just another normal way to show up for the world, then it leaves room for both of us to be different.”
Relationships have two people When I asked Rachel my probable parenting strengths and blind spots as a Nine, she offered an important clarifier. Just considering my own strengths and weaknesses as an individual is not enough information to understand my strengths and weaknesses in a relationship.
“As parents, it can be easy to forget that our kids are their own people, and who they are has just as much to do with the success of the relationship as who we are,” she said.
Only with that dual knowledge will our own strengths and blind spots in a particular relationship come into focus.
When your strength is also your blind spot “The best teachers are those who had to learn it first,” Rachel said. Which is why she is going to have a hard time teaching you how to “read a room.” She’s a Two, a type that “walks into a room with a thermometer,” able to intuitively look around and sense how people in the room are feeling, what kind of day they are having.
It’s an intuitive thing for her, but if she tried to teach some other number something that she never really had to be taught?
“I can show my kids what it looks like to serve others in an intuitive way, but my blind spot is I can’t teach them something I’ve never learned how to do,” she said.
It’s draining not to be you Sometimes the demands of life — a job, a relationship, a conflict — will ask us to play a role that really isn’t in our sweet spot. Sacrifices like this might be sustainable for the moment, but they are not a healthy lifestyle decision.
“We can all hold a role that is needed for the environment around us, but if we are not energetically in tune with who we are and how we are created, it will drain us so fast,” Rachel said. “When you meet people who are burned out, it’s probably because they have been operating at a level that they are not supposed to be operating at. Leave that for someone else who is supposed to show up that way.”
The nine types Of course, another tip might be this: Don’t trust a single article to plumb the depths of the Enneagram. It can’t. That’s why links to Rachel’s favorite resources are included at the end of this story.
The names for each of the nine numbers are taken from one of those links, yourenneagramcoach.com, a site where Rachel has gained training and resources to help in her coaching practice. This quick overview of each type is followed by insight from Rachel regarding what each type can bring to a relationship.
Ones: The Moral Perfectionists Responsible, Idealistic, Self-controlled, Purposeful, Fair “(Ones) are able to really help people understand a clear direction. … They can compassionately come into a relationship and guide it in the right direction, helping someone understand what is a good and right path to go down. When it’s healthy, it comes across as guidance, not nagging.”
Twos: The Supportive Advisors Caring, Generous, Nurturing, People-Pleasing, Warm “Twos bring a deep sense of service to a relationship. They need to feel like they are serving someone or something outside of themselves. … They want to play a starring role in someone else’s story! (Healthy or unhealthy — you can see how that could be a problem.)”
Threes: The Successful Achievers Competent, Productive, Driven, Image-Conscious, Adaptive “I believe the energy of a Three is what makes it possible for things to move forward efficiently. … If you are around a healthy Three, you are going to want to achieve something big in your life. They probably aren’t the ones who are going to help you step by step get there, but a three is your walking vision board.”
Fours: The Romantic Individualists Deep, Unique, Tasteful, Expressive, Emotional “Fours are the friends who want to try new things with you just to have that experience with you. … In a relationship, they bring a certain amount of creativity and beauty that other types can’t. Envy is something to watch out for as Fours can show up competitive in relationships.”
Fives: The Investigative Thinkers Cerebral, Perceptive, Innovative, Introspective, Private “Fives are happiest when they are collecting data, even if that’s people watching in a coffee shop. … It is one of the highest compliments if a Five lets you into her inner circle, because it is exceptionally, intentionally small. If Fives aren’t careful about their own boundaries, they can drain themselves quickly.”
Sixes: The Loyal Guardians Prepared, Hard-working, Committed, Security-oriented, Responsible “A Six is someone who will go to bat for you. They are so loyal. … They want to have a deeper understanding of people in their circles, and they want to protect the relationship. … If they don’t feel security in a relationship, it feels like everything is going to fall down around them.”
Sevens: The Entertaining Optimists Fun-loving, Spontaneous, Creative, Imaginative, Inspirational “Sevens bring the fun. They are the ones who want to help you find the fun. An average to unhealthy Seven is more self-serving — what feels fun to me — but in a healthy relationship, they want to find out what fills you up and is fun for you, and they will do that thing.”
Eights: The Protective Challengers Direct, Bold, Decisive, Powerful, Self-Confident “Eights bring strength to a relationship. They are good at saying, ‘No, you need to advocate for yourself.’ They won’t take over your life and do it for you if they’re healthy. … An eight in a healthy relationship will empower. When it’s not healthy, it’s controlling.”
Nines: The Peaceful Mediators Agreeable, Calm, Enduring, Easygoing, Receptive “There is something about a Nine in a relationship that they tend to fill in the gaps of what a relationship needs. It’s almost like the Nine will wait and see. ‘OK, I’m in a relationship with a Two. What does the Two bring to the table? I will fill in the blanks.’ … They need to watch out for losing themselves.”
For more on the Enneagram …
Rachel recommends the following online resources for further learning on the Enneagram:
For people wanting to learn more without committing to paid online evaluations, she likes the free Enneagram test at yourenneagramcoach.com.
Curious to take the next step in learning more? Head to go.oncehub.com/rachelBcoaching and sign up for a complimentary Enneagram conversation with Rachel. You can also connect with her at rachelBcoaching@gmail.com.
Rachel Briscoe is a personal and business coach, team development trainer — and a Two. She and her husband run four local businesses.
Coffee Notes
Rachel likes to meet clients at The Garden, where she orders a Spiced Chai Tea Latte with Oat Milk. “It tastes like Christmas!” she said. “I literally order this everywhere I go, and it’s the best at The Garden. Hands down!”
Thanks so much to Rachel Briscoe for sharing her Enneagram wisdom for this story! — Josh Johnson (soccer jersey: Huddersfield Town)
Feature image credit: “Enneagram clock” illustration (which creatively shows a Type 5 with a 4 Wing — confused? ask Rachel! — courtesy of www.fitzel.ca/enneagram
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Kylie, this is beautiful. So on point and a much needed topic in today’s world. I am glad you are sharing this with others and hope many young people will ready this and learn the lesson early in life. You are gifted with words and I hope to see more guest spots from you!
Kylie, this is so well done, I’m very impressed! You have your dad’s gift for words and organized and expressed yourself so well. Plus, what an important topic! Your Aunt Hannah sounds like a wonderful person. And coffee from The Garden IS delicious.
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Kylie, this is beautiful. So on point and a much needed topic in today’s world. I am glad you are sharing this with others and hope many young people will ready this and learn the lesson early in life. You are gifted with words and I hope to see more guest spots from you!
Kylie, this is so well done, I’m very impressed! You have your dad’s gift for words and organized and expressed yourself so well. Plus, what an important topic! Your Aunt Hannah sounds like a wonderful person. And coffee from The Garden IS delicious.