Your Ni Dom

Start, Stop and Beyond

In this reflection I wrestle with more bad news and consider this thing called life and whatever is beyond. [This episode is the start of Season 6.] Supporting themes: Identity; Self-actualization; The intuitive struggle (living in a sensory world); The politics of heaven; Aloneness; Living a purposeful life; and Race and the minoritization of subgroups. Content referenced: @JustCallMeJohn (YouTube) [Note: I recorded and published a YouTube response to an argument he makes about the INTJ mastermind.] Typology: Introverted intuition: Sensing; and INTJ

Totem Living

In this reflection I contend with social-emotional wellness as a collective experience. [This episode marks the close to Season 5.] Supporting themes: #BlackGirlFollowTrain on Tiktok; Public shaming as acts of accountability; Trauma bonding; Leadership vs supervision; Emotional wellness and reciprocity: Emotional wellness as relating to race and race work. Typology: Enneagram 8, 5 and 2; Social 8 with strong self-preservation instincts.

Racial Reconciliation

In this reflection I consider the different ways I have experienced a racialized existence with other racialized humans. Supporting themes: Class; Religion; LGBTQIA rights; Private school education and public school education; Equity work; Language and thinking; Monoculturalism and diversity; and The racial elite. Typology: INTJ

Understanding the Problem

In this reflection I attempt to create a new theory: Blended Living (assuming the problem was with Te-Fi conflict). I ended the reflection with a different consideration: Conjoined Living (accepting the problem as Ni-Te disjointedness). Supporting themes: Te at work; Te and power; Te in intergenerational trauma; and Friendship, family and romance. Typology: Extroverted thinking (Te); Introverted intuition (Ni); INTJ, Enneagram Type 8.

Repositioning the 8

In this reflection I do a little storytelling to wrestle with a contradiction, a discovery and a missing piece (all contending with the Enneagram 8 part of me). Supporting themes: Intergenerational trauma; Healthy and unhealthy being; Loving while healing; Fighting for self vs fighting for justice. Resource mentioned: "I Hate You-- Don't Leave Me" by Jerold Kreisman. Typology: Instinctual stack; Social Self- Preservation 8; Type 5; the INTJ8.

Integration

In this reflection I identify the pieces to my desired life. Supporting themes: Independence and freedom; Security, creativity and ambition; Non- traditional romance; Healing from trauma; NT community; Entrepreneurship (individual-ship vs institution-ship); and Being bivocational as a maximized strategy for retirement. Typology: Ni domness and INTJ.

The Executive

In this reflection I wrestle with a conceptual self in the backdrop of contending with a physical self and a psychological self. This exploration is done through a theme I've named as "The Executive". Supporting themes: Writing genres and a writerly life; Survival and wellness; Power and social hierarchies; and Strategizing and masterminding. Typology: Ni; Te; Fi; Si; ENTJ; INTJ variance; and Enneagram Type 8.

Motivation, Desire and Passion

In this reflection I confront motivation, desire and passion as missing elements in my life. Supporting themes; Memoir writing; Darkness, Short and cold days; Cultural disconnection; Top of the stack repression; and Lower stack adventure. Typology: Ni; Te; Fi and Se.

First and Second

In this reflection I strategize for the long game and confront some competing priorities. Supporting themes: Espoused values vs applied values; Work and family; Loving that doesn't hurt; Racism and classism; People and social narratives; and Alpha status and dominant behavior. Typology: Enneagram; Three clusters and three instincts; Core emotions (fear, loneliness and anger); Social 8 vs Self Preservation 8; Ni; Te; and Fi.

Behaviorism

In this reflection I explore the relationship between intention (attitudes) and action (behaviors). Typology: INTJ8, INTJ5, INTJ6, ISFP, ESFP, ENTJ