I read Elizabeth Gilbert’s book on the creative process, Big Magic, yesterday and something she wrote stood out to me as talking to me directly as an INFP. Sparks shot up in her writing when she discussed how we hold ourselves back as sensitive creatives, how we confuse what creativity really means. […]
An Exercise for Authenticity
When I was younger, not sure what to wrap myself around and grow, I listened to the cacophony of different voices inside and couldn’t figure out how to reconcile them all. They all seemed so different from each other, these different parts of me. I couldn’t hold this tension, this feeling that inside me were many different people. I couldn’t see how to bring them all together. And so, I flattened parts of me into one. […]
Being an INFP Writer
As writers, we all struggle with different parts of the writing process. As we continue with our artistic journey, different tendencies within us stop us in our tracks. Sometimes, it feels like we are trying to move a mountain outside, when the real problem is the way we are relating to our work. […]
Coming out as an Introvert
“All this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn’t think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhardy to me, like an uncooked egg deciding to come out of its shell: there would be a risk of spreading out too far, turning into a formless puddle” Margaret Atwood. […]
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