What if understanding your Enneagram type could help you grieve with more self-compassion and support others without trying to fix their pain? In part two of this heartfelt conversation, Sarah Peterson and The Unfiltered Enneagram author Elizabeth Orr explore how Enneagram Sixes and Sevens respond to loss, fear, control, and emotional pain. They also explain how every Enneagram type can offer care while staying aware of their own habits. From setting healthy boundaries and releasing perfection to sitting with discomfort and knowing when humor is helpful, this episode offers honest, practical guidance for showing up during life’s hardest moments. Whether you are grieving a death, a relationship, a job, or an unexpected change, you will learn how presence, courage, and compassion can matter more than having the perfect words.

Episode highlights:

(3:27) How Enneagram Sixes experience grief, fear, and powerlessness

(11:49) Why Enneagram Sevens may avoid pain through plans and activity

(18:32) Supporting grief through the lens of your Enneagram type

(18:59) Type Eight: Releasing control and connecting with vulnerability

(24:17) Type Nine: Staying present through discomfort

(28:38) Type One: Letting grief be messy and imperfect

(32:03) Type Two: Setting caring and healthy boundaries

(37:02) Type Three: Moving past performance toward honest connection

(40:32) Type Four: Making room for breaks from emotional intensity

(43:02) Type Five: Showing up without needing all the answers

(48:36) Type Six: Offering courage, loyalty, and practical help

(52:52) Type Seven: Reading the room before reaching for humor

(54:32) How self-awareness helps us offer better grief support

(58:09) Resources for discovering your Enneagram type

Connect with Elizabeth:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/lzjhnsnrr/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/rudeassenneagram/?hl=en

Grab a copy of her book The Unfiltered Enneagram: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9Y3X6MP

Connect with Sarah:

✅ Instagram: instagram.com/clearmourning

✅ Official Website: clearmourning.org

Follow us on Instagram: @ClearMourning

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What happens when grief is not tied to death, but to the life you thought you were going to have? In this honest and moving episode of Enduring Grief, Sarah sits down with Brad to talk about living with schizophrenia, losing confidence, facing stigma, and rebuilding a meaningful life one day at a time. Brad shares how medication, therapy, community, nature, and self-awareness have helped him accept his diagnosis without letting it define him. Together, they explore grief as the loss of dreams, identity, relationships, and independence, while also holding onto hope. This conversation is a caring reminder that healing takes effort, support matters, and even on the hardest days, tomorrow can still be different.

Episode highlights:

(0:00) Learning to let go and trust life

(1:06) Expanding grief beyond death

(2:15) Brad’s story of living with schizophrenia

(4:35) Diagnosis, lost dreams, and rebuilding

(6:48) Reality, medication, and personal responsibility

(10:23) Grieving hopes, dreams, and former expectations

(13:07) Mental health stigma and loss of relationships

(16:41) The role of family, therapy, and community support

(20:24) What Brad would tell his younger self

(21:48) Relax, let go, and keep going

(26:22) How to support someone facing serious mental illness

(31:03) Growth through pain, support, and time

(34:08) Journaling, tracking progress, and finding hope

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✅ Instagram: instagram.com/clearmourning

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What if your grief response is not “wrong,” but a clue to how you learned to survive? In this warm, honest, and funny conversation, Sarah welcomes Elizabeth Orr, author of The Unfiltered Enneagram, to explore how the Enneagram can help us better understand grief, support, anger, love, and emotional shutdown. Together, they look at how different personality types may carry loss, from the fiery anger of Type 8 to the quiet weight of Type 9, the high standards of Type 1, the caregiving struggle of Type 2, and the hidden inner world of Type 5. This episode offers practical, compassionate insight for grievers and the people who love them, reminding us that grief does not have to look one certain way to be real.

Episode highlights:

(4:19) Clear Morning’s mission to shift grief support

(5:50) How the Enneagram helps explain grief responses

(7:11) What the Enneagram is and why it matters

(11:43) Supporting Type 8 grievers through anger

(15:51) How each type offers a gift in support

(18:19) Gut center types: 8, 9, and 1

(23:41) Type 2 grief and learning to receive care

(28:48) Type 3 grief and the pressure to do it “right”

(32:55) Type 4 grief, meaning, and feeling misunderstood

(37:36) Type 5 grief, shutdown, and the need for steady support

(43:03) Enneagram resources and where to learn more

Connect with Elizabeth:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/lzjhnsnrr/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/rudeassenneagram/?hl=en

Grab a copy of her book The Unfiltered Enneagram: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9Y3X6MP

Connect with Sarah:

✅ Instagram: instagram.com/clearmourning

✅ Official Website: clearmourning.org

Follow us on Instagram: @ClearMourning

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