Main Type: 2

Strengths

• Helpfulness: Twos are amazing helpers that are able to tune-in to your specific needs and provide the exact kind of help needed to move forward.
• Sensitivity: Twos are deeply in touch with the feelings of those close to them. This allows Twos to anticipate the needs of their loved ones.
• Connection: Twos are great at connecting and forming bonds with others.
• Intimacy: Twos are able to get to know people intimately, helping others feel seen and understood.
• Selflessness: Twos can put others before themselves, focusing on making sure everyone’s needs are getting met.
• Generosity: Twos provide others with a great deal of time, energy and attention.
• Positivity: Twos often express a positive attitude that’s uplifting to those around them.

Achilles Heel

• The Achilles Heel for Type 2 is the fear that they're not worthy of love. When Type Twos succumb to their Achilles Heel, their strengths become the following weaknesses.

Weaknesses

• Manipulation: Twos can manipulate others using complaints and guilt when others aren’t returning the love that they expect to receive.
• Neediness: Everyone has needs, but Twos can become overly needy in their search for appreciation, attention and gratitude.
• Insincerity: Twos can display feelings that seem overly loving and saccharine sweet, leading others to mistrust their sincerity.
• People-pleasing: In the effort to be seen as worthy of love, Twos can say things that others want to hear and lose themselves in pleasing people.
• Possessiveness: Because Twos put so much time and energy into others, they become possessive of those people.
• Intrusiveness: In the search for ways they can help, Twos can become overly intrusive in the lives of those close to them.
• Self-Sacrifice: The downside of being selfless is that Twos often end up sacrificing themselves and denying their own needs.
• Resentment: When Twos don’t communicate their needs, their loved ones naturally are unable to meet those needs. The Two can become resentful when they’re giving so much but it seems like nobody cares about their needs.

Winged Type: 2w1 or 2w3

There are two adjacent types next to your main Enneagram type. For Type 2, those types are Type 1 and Type 3. Each of these types influences your main type, but for most people, one of those types is dominant. This is known as your wing and it "flavors" your main type.

Your wing is Type 1 or 3, which makes your full winged Enneagram type 2w1 or 2w3. This is prounounced "Two with a One wing".

You can also read about Type 1 in The Ultimate Guide to Enneagram Type 1 and Type 3 in The Ultimate Guide to Enneagram Type 3.

Tri-Type: 217

Enneagram theory recognizes that we all have three centers of consciousness: mind, heart, and gut. All nine types of the Enneagram fall into one of the three centers:

• 5, 6, and 7 in the mind center.
• 2, 3, and 4 in the heart center.
• 8, 9, and 1 in the gut center.

According to tri-type theory, we all have one type in each of the three centers.

Your tri-type is 217, which means you are a Type 2 in the heart center, a Type 1 in the gut center, and a Type 7 in the mind center.

Read More about the 217 Tri-Type in The Ultimate Guide to Enneagram Type 2.

You can also read more about Type 1 and Type 7.