This makes so much sense. I'm an ENFP too and I've been in an Fi haze for years at various points in my life b/c I'm trying to deal with an emotionally overwhelming situation and it makes me withdraw and seem very introverted. But I just can't handle any more input, and when I'm interacting with people who don't understand what I'm going through, it feels like an obligation to manage their experience of me and not overwhelm them. So I withdraw but it has nothing to do with not liking anyone, I just know the experience is not going to be great for either of us because of the place I'm in. But other Fi people can sometimes hold space without trying to fix anything and that helps. I need to be around people who take my experience seriously without taking every specific emotionally laden thing I say seriously, if that makes sense. Like see beyond what I'm saying and just sit with me as a person going through something and not try to figure out everything I'm saying because it might not even make sense to anyone else and it doesn't have to.
I keep joking with my roommates that BC and AC is Before Cheese and After Cheese, but Crystal works too 😂. I love your negligence vs suffocation dichotomy, I tend to think of functions with opposing orientations like that. I really like how you explained the “social bars,” and how Fi sees two people as having separate emotional bars and Fe sees two people as working on one social bar together. I think sometimes its hard to find good ways to explain how different functions are from one another, but this strikes me as a really good way to differentiate Fi and Fe.
oh my goodness, I relate to Kat so hard about sensing people’s emotions and then wanting people to coharmonize. I also have to remind myself to set boundaries when it comes to my emotions vs others’ emotions. It’s really helpful to hear Fe and Fi differentiation.
Hearing the functions in application + analogies helped me understand them much better. I'm not learning via embodying, but I'm learning via YOU TWO embodying. Which is the next best thing. It's juicy and alive in a way that books about abstractions are not. Looking forward to more : )
This makes so much sense. I'm an ENFP too and I've been in an Fi haze for years at various points in my life b/c I'm trying to deal with an emotionally overwhelming situation and it makes me withdraw and seem very introverted. But I just can't handle any more input, and when I'm interacting with people who don't understand what I'm going through, it feels like an obligation to manage their experience of me and not overwhelm them. So I withdraw but it has nothing to do with not liking anyone, I just know the experience is not going to be great for either of us because of the place I'm in. But other Fi people can sometimes hold space without trying to fix anything and that helps. I need to be around people who take my experience seriously without taking every specific emotionally laden thing I say seriously, if that makes sense. Like see beyond what I'm saying and just sit with me as a person going through something and not try to figure out everything I'm saying because it might not even make sense to anyone else and it doesn't have to.
I keep joking with my roommates that BC and AC is Before Cheese and After Cheese, but Crystal works too 😂. I love your negligence vs suffocation dichotomy, I tend to think of functions with opposing orientations like that.
I really like how you explained the “social bars,” and how Fi sees two people as having separate emotional bars and Fe sees two people as working on one social bar together. I think sometimes its hard to find good ways to explain how different functions are from one another, but this strikes me as a really good way to differentiate Fi and Fe.
Thanks for commenting Jess!!!! I always love hearing your thoughts and am excited for you to hopefully hear more about what’s in store
oh my goodness, I relate to Kat so hard about sensing people’s emotions and then wanting people to coharmonize.
I also have to remind myself to set boundaries when it comes to my emotions vs others’ emotions. It’s really helpful to hear Fe and Fi differentiation.
Hearing the functions in application + analogies helped me understand them much better.
I'm not learning via embodying, but I'm learning via YOU TWO embodying. Which is the next best thing.
It's juicy and alive in a way that books about abstractions are not.
Looking forward to more : )
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Very interesting 👍🏼
this was so wholesome and insightful. i’m gonna go hug an enfj 🥲
Infp next 🤞