For Bonnie Smith Whitehouse, Wonder is An Antidote to Toxic Certainty (Type 2)

Typology · Jan 19, 2023 · 30m

Throughout her 20+ years of teaching, Professor Bonnie Smith Whitehouse, has seen a significant change in her students' ties to religion.

"I've seen them completely abandon spirituality because that drug of certainty has just gotten too toxic for them," says Whitehouse. "And so, what is really powerful to me is wonder. It's always been really powerful to me, as an Enneagram 2."

This week, we talk to Bonnie Smith Whitehouse about how being an Enneagram 2 has opened her eyes to an alternate posture toward spirituality.

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Bonnie Smith Whitehouse, PhD, is a writer and professor who studies…