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EPISODE · Jun 4, 2026 · 12 MIN

Enneagram 2 & People-Pleasing: Finding My Real Self After 40 Years of Performing

from The Joyful Rebel Podcast · host Rachel Harris

Send us Fan MailYou've taken the assessments. You know your type. But what if the personality you've built your whole life around isn't really you — it's the version you learned to survive as?In this episode, Rachel gets honest about the day she found out she'd been ghosting herself: confusing a survival strategy for her identity for four decades, and calling it personality the whole time. She shares why most of us take personality tests the wrong way — your first answer might not be your truth, it might be your training — what happened when she fed five different assessments into AI and asked where they all pointed to the same woman, and why the joy she spent years apologizing for turned out to be the very thing she was made to offer. Because childlike isn't childish, and being too much, too bright, too playful was never the problem.This is the heart of Good Girl Ghosting: the socially approved disappearing act — the gold-star-earning, box-checking, don't-make-waves version of yourself that everyone rewards, right up until you realize she isn't you. And it lands somewhere lighter than you'd expect, because reclaiming yourself isn't always deep excavation. Sometimes it just looks like finally dressing like the woman you actually are.If you've been calling your real self "too much" for too long, this one's for you.In this episode:Why your personality might be a survival story wearing your faceThe one question that separates what's true from what's automaticHow to take a personality test so you get your answer, not your conditioningWhat five assessments plus AI revealed about the real youChildlike vs. childish — and the joy you were never meant to apologize forThe socially approved disappearing act, and the way back to yourselfA few lines worth remembering: "What you thought was your personality was actually your survival story wearing your face." "I wasn't managing my personality — I was suppressing my calling." · "Childlike isn't childish."Next steps:The founding group for the Good Girl Ghosting Reset is open!! Comment RESET and I'll tell you about it.For the exact scripts for the next time you go blank or catch yourself saying an automatic yes, comment the word KIT for the Rebel Response Mini Kit or find it on Amazon here: https://a.co/d/0cMYC5fX#midlifewomen #GoodGirlGhosting #Enneagram #midlifeawakening #selfdiscovery #selfgrowth #christianwomenResources:The founding group for the Good Girl Ghosting Reset is open!! Visit https://bit.ly/4v7OmWd or Comment RESET and I'll tell you about it. For the exact scripts for the next time you go blank or catch yourself saying an automatic yes, grab the Rebel Response Mini Kit here: https://a.co/d/0cMYC5fXMy Substack Page, Goodbye, Good Girl: https://joyfulrebel.substack.com/Are YOU A Joyful Rebel? https://rachelharrisonline.com/joyful-rebel

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