Your Ni Dom

Epistemic Power

In reflection I process a pattern with my friendships around who gets to name an offence and whose emotions are valid.

 

Supporting themes:  Power; Soft dominance; Hard dominance; Social hierarchies; Communication; Self-advocacy; Holding two competing needs equally.

 

Typology:  INTJ, Enneagram 8; ISFJ

A Spiritual Calling

In this reflection I consider a spiritual calling from a neurological perspective, a psychological perspective, and an environmental experience. 

Mind Over Matter

In this reflection I discover core truths that had been hidden within.

 

Supporting themes: Body intelligence; Emotions; Teaching; Leadership; consider the pull of the body as an intelligence center. 

 

Topology: INTJ8; Te; Fi

Learning, Affect and ZPD

This reflection is Part II to last week's episode: "A Rock and a Hard Place."  In it, I discuss the dark side to a recent decision I made.

Supporting themes:  Love, pride and logic; Learning affect; Professional development; Culture, family and Black space; Race and Gender; Feminism; Authenticity and Autonomy; Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD); Teaching and Leading.

 

Typology:  INTJ8

 

A Rock and a Hard Place

In this reflection, I explore what feels like the necessity of an unfortunate decision. 

 

Supporting themes: The classroom; Authenticity within context; Accessible authenticity vs inaccessible authenticity vs entitled accessibility; Authenticity as an inner experience or an outer experience; Breakthroughs in my grief (clarity); Therapy; Black spaces; and much more.

 

Typology: INTJ8

Low Places- Part 2

In this reflection, I do a meta-reflection to last week's "Low Places" episode.

 

Supporting themes:  Juxtaposition between joy and optimism.  Garth Brook's lyrics to "Low Places."

Low Places-Part 1

In this reflection, I am in a low place and I introduce a strategy I am starting in route to my big (my mastermind).

 

Typology:  INTJ8; ESFP

An Amendment

In this reflection I revisit the idea of liking and/or not liking a person.

 

Typology:  Te linked to Se (INTJ) vs Te linked to Ne (ISTJ). 

Taking Action

In this reflection I talk about the moods that impact taking action.

 

Supporting themes:  Returning to employment (although it feels like I am selling myself into slavery); The Trump administration; Mood (or emotions) that causes action paralysis.

 

Typology: INTJ8

Leadership Orientation

In this Take 2 reflection, I explore leadership as an issue of positionality vs orientation. Supporting themes: Racial and cultural implications of leadership; Leading upward; Song writing; The White coding of AI; Teaching and learning; Impostor syndrome. Special note: This reflection replaces a recording I did on August q8, 2025. Typology: INTJ8