Overview: Too Much and Not Enough is a therapeutic memoir and an explorative narrative about a particular type of personality structure known as Enneagram 4 and its borderline characteristics and emotional dis-regulation.

This population has been known to be difficult for therapists to treat and families to tolerate and, most importantly, to accept and embody. Often asked to consult and work with these clients, Dr. Sattler knows this personality from the inside.

Verdict: For anyone who is currently suffering from, or is still caught in the web of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), it is books like this that make all the difference to their lives, of that you have my word.

Here in Too Much and Not Enough: Healing for the Enneagram Four or Borderline-Style Personality by Dr. Tamra Sattler, she eloquently describes her very own East-West balanced approach to topics that affect intensely feeling people.

Thus, these impassioned thoughts are not only insightful and groundbreaking, but are all-encompassing in the way that they offer a rare look into the inner workings of borderline features; which can appear in any of the nine Enneagram points, and the characteristic worldview of point Four.

For those unaware, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a condition that affects how you think, feel and interact with other people. Symptoms of borderline personality include being emotionally unstable, having upsetting thoughts and acting without thinking.

Indeed, the main treatment for borderline personality disorder is a type of talking therapy called psychotherapy. The cause of borderline personality disorder is unclear. It has also been linked to traumatic events during childhood, such as neglect or abuse.

Highlighting Identity Disturbance, a trait that troubles many people with BPD, as she does with everything on the table, Tamra talks passionately constructively and wholly informatively about the dialectic, and how a lack of identity can be challenging in a Western context.

In closing, this book will not only provide a genuine hope and inspiration for anyone suffering from these personality features, but also constructive insight and beloved suggestions for those of us living and working with such individuals in our daily lives.

About the Author - Tamra Sattler, PhD, MFT is a therapist, professor, dog mom, change agent, and entrepreneur who loves to serve in the cultivating of the deepest Self and all the layers of conditioning. She lives in Boulder, CO.

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