Kat & Christy Interview Michelle Dunn-Loveless, Enneagram 8, Yogi & Co-Owner of Outshine Adventures

In this interview we spend time exploring the Enneagram & Yoga with Michelle Dunn-Loveless. She is a recovering rebel with an outlaw spirit, your typical Enneagram 8 who lived life in the fast lane and has been cultivating growth towards her inner two since the birth of her darling daughters. This passion to leave an imprint on the world led Michelle into teaching where she taught in the public schools for over ten years. A life-long learner and educator, Michelle earned her masters in education, a 200-hour yoga certification, and most recently a 500-hour certification specializing in Kundalini Yoga. She teaches paddle board yoga with Outshine Adventures, Yin + Meditation and Kundalini Yoga at Yoga landing. Not only does Michelle teach, she and her wife own Outshine Adventures: Eco Tours + Travel to inspire others to adventure differently. Full-time, Michelle works as an educator at a local nonprofit that removes barriers to birth control by providing education, outreach, and access to free birth control - proving to the world she can do it all! Here are some of the questions we asked Michelle of you want to spend time meditating on them. 1) What does being bold mean to you? 2) How challenging is it to let your walls down? 3) Do you resist being vulnerable because vulnerability equals weakness? 4) Oftentimes, passion and intensity of 8’s is wrongly perceived as aggressive and controlling. How do you deal with this misconception, especially as a woman? 5) Advocacy, fairness, honesty, authenticity are just few things that are very important to an 8. What area of life would you like to leave the most impact in? 6) Oftentimes, 8’s struggle with asking for help. When was the last time you asked for help? What was it for? How did it make you feel? 7) Sometimes 8’s struggle with showing emotion out of fear of being weak. When was the last time you got really emotional? What was it about? 8) Enneagram 8s struggle with vulnerability. What are some emotions that you wish you had expressed to others in the past, but have been too afraid to? 9)Enneagram 8's are known for loving the intensity of a good argument and like a 1 they can be prone to black and white thinking when they argue. Is this true for you and if so how do you tone down the intensity in an argument and also the need to be right? 10) The arrow of growth for the Enneagram 8 is the two and so 8's benefit from softening their hearts. What yoga pose opens up your heart and moves you from being a bear to a teddy bear? 11) The deadly passion of the Enneagram 8 is lust. This lust is necessarily sexual and can most often be defined as a lust for power and control. How has the Enneagram helped you to let go of power and control and be more collaborative? 12) The needed childhood message of the 8 is you will be protected or you will not be betrayed. Were either if those messages ones you could have heard more of as a child or even as an adult?