Unique Self Institute Blog
Heart Wisdom and the Unique Self Core need to be Loved/Adored
By Claire Molinard Exploring the False Core Patterns of Types 2, 3, and 4—and the way home to genuine connection, value, and identity This week, we turn toward the Heart Center of the Enneagram—a center animated by the Unique Self’s core need to be loved, adored,...
From Noise to Signal: Attuning to Your Unique Self in Turbulent Times
https://youtu.be/ObBR8QEIlgY The world is loud right now—louder than ever. It’s not just the global instability, climate collapse, AI-driven acceleration, or systems breaking down. It’s also personal. So many of us are walking through financial stress, health...
Learning to Trust Your Gut: Accessing Hara Intelligence to Awaken Your Unique Self
by Claire Molinard As we’ve begun to explore, we each arrive whole and then—life happens.Something gets interrupted. Something goes unseen, unfelt, unmet and a wound forms. And while these wounds are not always dramatic, they are significant enough that we begin to...
The Enneagram: Unmasking the False Self & Revealing Our Path to Unique Self
By Claire Molinard As we explored in previous articles, we each come into this world whole, yet life’s experiences imprint wounds that shape our sense of self. From these wounds, we unconsciously form a False Core—a deep-seated belief about our fundamental inadequacy....
Immunity to Change: Why We Resist Our Unique Risk
By Claire Molinard Each of us carries a Unique Gift—something only we can bring into the world. And yet, when the moment comes to step into that gift and take our Unique Risk, something inside holds us back. We hesitate, procrastinate, fall into old patterns. We tell...
The False Self Pattern: The Hidden Barrier to Your Unique Gift
By Claire Molinard If each of us has a Unique Gift to bring into the world—something only we can offer—then why do so many of us struggle to fully live and express it? Why do we hesitate to take our Unique Risk, the bold step that allows us to become who we are meant...
Emerging as Your Unique Self: Embracing Your Gift and Risk
by Claire Molinard “Unique Self begins with the recognition that every individual is both part of the one and uniquely incarnates the personal face of Essence, or God.”— Marc Gafni When we arrive in this world, we are still bathing in the oceanic consciousness from...
Your Unique Risk: The Only Call You Need To Answer
By Claire Molinard Embracing What Is Yours to Do Each of us holds a deep, untapped potential, waiting to be fully expressed. There is something that only you can bring into the world—something so essential that, if left undone, no achievement could truly satisfy you....
The Field
by Claire Molinard Where Aliveness Meets Heartbreak Deep within each of us lies a sacred space—a field—where the light of our unique essence resides. This is the place, as Frederick Buechner once said, “where your greatest joy meets the world’s greatest need.”...
The Evolutionary Journey of the Unique Self
"Unique Self begins with the recognition that every individual is both part of the one and uniquely incarnates the personal face of Essence, or God.”Marc Gafn To understand the journey within the Unique Self Coaching Process, we can visualize the Four Experiences of...