What if your first move — when life gets hard, overwhelming, or just too loud — is to go inward?
For Enneagram Types 4, 5, and 9, that's not avoidance. That's home.
This episode explores the Withdrawn Grouping of the Hornevian Triads — one of three movement patterns that shape how we seek what we most deeply need. While some types move toward others and some move against, the Withdrawn types characteristically turn inward: into feeling and imagination, into the life of the mind, into stillness and inner sanctuary.
This panel features Eric Blois (Type 9), Brandon Graves (Type 4), and Katarina Bednar (Type 5). Together they explore what this inward movement actually feels like from the inside — and why it's often misread by the world (and sometimes by themselves) as disengagement, aloofness, or passivity. What others may experience as withdrawal is often a genuine search: for identity, for understanding, for peace.
To learn more about Brandon and his music, go to https://brandongravesmusic.com. Find more about Katarina at https://yellowbug.co.
This episode opens a compassionate window into one of the Enneagram's most interior landscapes.
Remember, the map is not the territory. But sometimes a good map helps you finally come home to yourself.
