Author: Susan Storm

Susan Storm is a certified MBTI® practitioner and Enneagram coach. She is the mom of five beautiful children and loves using her knowledge of personality type to understand them and others better! Susan has written over 1,000 articles about typology as well as four books including: Discovering You: Unlocking the Power of Personality Type, The INFJ: Understanding the Mystic, The INTJ: Understanding the Strategist, and The INFP: Understanding the Dreamer. Alongside her writing, Susan has collaborated with Personality Hacker, Introvert, Dear, Joyce Meng, The British Association of Psychological Type, and The Association for Psychological Type International. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Sun, and Yahoo! Lifestyle.

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The Japanese Philosophy You’ll Love, Based On Your Enneagram Type
BySusan Storm January 16, 2026January 17, 2026

I’ve always loved Japanese philosophies. I enjoy discovering proverbs or concepts from other cultures that I can learn from and integrate try to become a better person. Years ago I wrote an article about the Japanese philosophy that would appeal to each Myers-Briggs personality type. Today I thought I’d turn to the Enneagram and find…

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ESTJ Grip Stress: What It Is and How to Cope
BySusan Storm January 12, 2026January 12, 2026

ESTJs get a lot of flack in the type community; some are put off by their take-charge demeanor, others find them too brusque and rough. But at their best, ESTJs are the ones people lean on. They’re the people who take responsibility when no one else will. The ones who notice what’s broken, inefficient, unclear,…

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What Anne of Green Gables, OCD, and Anxiety Taught Me About Living
BySusan Storm January 7, 2026January 7, 2026

Anaïs Nin once said, “Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you.” I used to take this quote to heart in the way I lived my life. Throughout my childhood my seemingly incessant fears put others on edge. I didn’t take elevators. They…

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ESFJ Grip Stress: What It Is and How to Cope
BySusan Storm January 6, 2026January 6, 2026

ESFJs are built for people the way some homes are built for hosting: warm lighting, extra chairs, snacks you didn’t know you needed, and an uncanny ability to sense when someone’s “I’m fine” is actually “I’m not fine but I’m trying to be polite about it.” One of my ESFJ friends used to tell me…

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How to Clarify Your Goals With Journaling Prompts, Based on Your Enneagram Type
BySusan Storm January 2, 2026January 2, 2026

By now, most of us have lived through at least one year where our goals started strong and quietly died sometime around February, buried under laundry, fatigue, and the creeping suspicion that maybe we never really wanted them in the first place. I know I’ve been there. I asked for a habit tracker September of…

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