Beyond Your Number
You’re not just a type — you’re a whole story. Beyond Your Number is a conversational Enneagram podcast where Damon & Kelly explore real-life growth through personality. From relationships to team dynamics, we help you go deeper than the label. New episodes every Wednesday. Formerly EnneagramU.
Beyond Your Number
Enneagram Core Fears, Type 1–9 (What Each Type Avoids and How It Drives Behavior)
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Okay BYN friends, this one’s a little ominous, in a helpful way. Damon and Kelly walk through the core fear underneath each Enneagram type, and how fear becomes a “silent motivator” that can hijack your tone, your choices, and your relationships when you’re not paying attention.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
- Why core fears often run the show subconsciously, especially under stress
- The core fear for each type (1–9) and what it tends to look like in real life
- A simple awareness prompt to use this week: “Where am I noticing this fear driving me?”
Core fears by type:
- Type 1: fear of being wrong (or corrupt)
- Type 2: fear of being unwanted (and abandoned)
- Type 3: fear of being worthless (or unseen)
- Type 4: fear of having no identity (being ordinary)
- Type 5: fear of depletion (energy, time, resources)
- Type 6: fear of being unsupported (leading to loyal-to-a-fault patterns)
- Type 7: fear of pain (leading to avoidance and distraction)
- Type 8: fear of being harmed (driving control and protective walls)
- Type 9: fear of conflict (driving self-forgetting and disconnection)
Share this one with a friend, unless you’re a 9 and you’re afraid it’ll cause conflict. (Damon said it.)
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