The Hive Cast

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Episode Four: The Heart Remembers – Exploring Types 3, 2, and 4 05/07/2025

Episode Four: The Heart Remembers – Exploring Types 3, 2, and 4 Podcast Series: The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self: A Book Club Series Host: Alicia Divers | Somatic Practitioner & Enneagram Teacher Guest Author: Sandra Smith In This Episode: This week, we move into Chapters 3, 4, and 9 of Sandra Smith’s The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self—exploring the Heart Center types: Three, Two, and Four. Alicia guides us through the tender terrain of the Heart Center—where image, identity, and emotional attunement shape our inner stories. You’ll hear how each type seeks love and connection in distinct ways, and how the journey back to the heart begins with reclaiming self-worth. With somatic insight and personal reflection, Alicia brings Sandra’s “compassionate entry points” to life—offering gentle practices and embodied invitations for each type to soften performance, over-functioning, and comparison. You’ll learn: How Type Three’s drive for achievement can soften into authentic presence How Type Two’s desire to be needed can open into the spaciousness of receiving How Type Four’s longing for depth can root into grounded belonging How shame subtly shapes Heart Center strategies—and how the body holds its residue Why equanimity, Holy Freedom, and Holy Source name the deeper spiritual journey of these types Whether you resonate with the Heart Center—or love someone who leads with image or emotion—this episode offers a warm, invitational space to remember: You don’t have to earn your belonging. You already have it. Reflection Question: Where are you still trying to prove your worth—and what might shift if you trusted that love doesn’t have to be earned? Resources Mentioned: 📖 The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self: Living Beyond Your Type by Sandra Smith Learn more about Sandra Smith at Explore somatic work and Enneagram coaching with Alicia at ------ Support The Hive by becoming a Patreon member: Visit our website and join our Membership Community! Subscribe to the Hive's email newsletter for more great content: Join the Hive's Facebook Group: Follow the Hive on Instagram: @thehiveapiary Get in touch: /episode/index/show/thehivecast/id/36470830

Episode Three: Body Wisdom and the Gift of Stillness – Exploring Types 9, 8, and 1 04/30/2025

Episode Three: Body Wisdom and the Gift of Stillness – Exploring Types 9, 8, and 1 Podcast Series: The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self: A Book Club Series Host: Alicia Divers | Somatic Practitioner & Enneagram Teacher Guest Author: Sandra Smith 🎙️ In This Episode: This week, we move into Chapters 6, 7, and 8 of Sandra Smith’s The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self—and begin our exploration of the Body Center types: Nine, Eight, and One. Alicia introduces the core patterns of the Body Center—how instinct, resistance, and groundedness shape our inner worlds—and how each body type carries a unique relationship to anger, fairness, and autonomy. You’ll also hear how Sandra’s idea of compassionate entry points invites a kinder, more relational path to growth—and why connecting with your body’s knowing is essential for real transformation. You’ll learn: How Type Nine’s habit of self-forgetting shows up in the body How Type Eight’s armor can soften into openness without losing strength How Type One’s striving can give way to the serenity of self-acceptance How anger lives differently in each type—and how to meet it with curiosity How Sabbath practices and reflection can create space for real change Whether you resonate with the Body Center yourself—or you’re learning to love someone who does—this episode invites you to slow down, listen inwardly, and discover how the body holds both our defenses and our way home. Reflection Question: Where do you notice resistance, urgency, or self-criticism living in your body—and what happens if you meet it with curiosity instead of judgment? Resources Mentioned: 📖 The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self: Living Beyond Your Type by Sandra Smith Learn more about Sandra Smith at Explore somatic work and Enneagram coaching with Alicia at ------ Support The Hive by becoming a Patreon member: Visit our website and join our Membership Community! Subscribe to the Hive's email newsletter for more great content: Join the Hive's Facebook Group: Follow the Hive on Instagram: @thehiveapiary Get in touch: /episode/index/show/thehivecast/id/36373185

Episode Two: The Enneagram as a Compassionate Map – Understanding the Shape of the System 04/23/2025

Episode Two: The Enneagram as a Compassionate Map – Understanding the Shape of the System Podcast Series: The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self: A Book Club Series Host: Alicia Divers | Somatic Practitioner & Enneagram Teacher Guest Author: Sandra Smith 🎙️ In This Episode: This week, we step into Chapters 2 and 3 of Sandra Smith’s The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self—shifting from presence to pattern, and beginning to explore the shape of the Enneagram itself. Alicia walks us through the deeper purpose of the Enneagram—not as a typing system, but as a compassionate, psychospiritual map. She introduces core elements of each type’s structure (ego ideal, focus of attention, defense mechanism) and reflects on how these patterns live in the body. You’ll also learn how the three centers—body, heart, and head—shape your instinctive responses, and how the triads can illuminate the ways we move, relate, and protect ourselves. You’ll learn: What ego patterns look and feel like in the body How the Enneagram reveals our inner landscape—not just our behavior Why naming your center of intelligence can bring type clarity How the Enneagram is both spiritual and somatic work Whether you’re new to the Enneagram or returning with fresh curiosity, this episode invites you to meet your patterns with compassion—and to remember that you are more than your type. Reflection Question: What does your ego structure feel like in your body—and where might you begin to meet it with more kindness? Resources Mentioned: 📖 The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self: Living Beyond Your Type by Sandra Smith Learn more about Sandra Smith at Explore somatic work and Enneagram coaching with Alicia at ------ Support The Hive by becoming a Patreon member: Visit our website and join our Membership Community! Subscribe to the Hive's email newsletter for more great content: Join the Hive's Facebook Group: Follow the Hive on Instagram: @thehiveapiary Get in touch: /episode/index/show/thehivecast/id/36268405

Episode One: Before the Map – Presence, Pause, and the Starting Point of Inner Work 04/16/2025

Exploring Hope and Spirituality in Uncertain Times 03/12/2025

Wintering - Episode 4 01/26/2025

Welcoming Winter - Week 3 01/15/2025

Welcoming Winter - Week 2 01/10/2025

Welcoming Winter - Week 1 01/04/2025

The Great Wait - Introduction Class 11/25/2024

Fear, Mist, and Monsters - Job: Chaos, Monsters, & Unification 11/05/2024

Fear, Mist, and Monsters - Job: Chaos, Monsters, & Unification Class 4 In the Book of Job, we hear God ask, “Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope? Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?" (Job 41:1) The Leviathan is just one of the metaphorical chaos monsters that are mentioned in the book and they show us just how unknowable the whole universe is. In Job, we learn that true union with God is a STAGE of spiritual development and not a one-time STATE. But we are asked to enter into the mystery of God’s wisdom even further as we learn to let go of our preconceived expectations of life. Activity: Contemplation Want the full course including the associated activities? Become a at The Hive and gain instant access to this and many other incredible courses in our Membership-exclusive library! Course Description: In our lives, we face real fears, pain, and suffering. These things can feel like metaphorical monsters lurking in the shadows and mist of a murky reality. It can seem wherever we turn, there are people who can only seem to offer Hallmark-esque platitudes and even toxic positivity in response to the actual help our souls desire. The Biblical Wisdom tradition takes the opposite approach to pain and suffering. Through Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Job (three of the classic Wisdom books in the Bible), we can find a pattern that has been time-tested to help us find deep growth, even when we're facing the things we fear most in this life. Taking an in-depth academic and spiritual approach to these three Book of the Bible, we can learn to grow in wisdom and hope. Visit our website and join our Membership Community! ------ Support The Hive by becoming a Patreon member: Subscribe to the Hive's email newsletter for more great content: Join the Hive's Facebook Group: Follow the Hive on Instagram: @thehiveapiary Get in touch: /episode/index/show/thehivecast/id/33570437