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When Maud Newton read about the traits of the Enneagram Four, she had to laugh out of pure recognition. \u201cOn my mother's side, there was this impulse toward larger than life stories. There wasn't really shame around difficult histories and that sort of thing. The greatest sin was to be boring.\u201d

Maud\u2019s ancestors were anything but boring. In this episode, Maud shares what she\u2019s learned about herself through exploring her ancestors' lives, and explains how we\u2019re setting ourselves up to repeat our ancestors\u2019 trauma and toxic patterns if we aren\u2019t able to acknowledge them first.\xa0

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Maud Newton has written for The New York Times Magazine, Harper\u2019s, The New York Times Book Review, and Oxford American. She grew up in Miami and graduated from the University of Florida with degrees in English and law.