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In this episode, Joel and Antonia talk with Profiler Training alumni, Dana Jacobson about her lived experience as an INFP personality type.
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In this podcast you’ll find:
- Guest Host Dana Jacobson, INFP, joins.
- Download our INFP Personality Type Handy Guide to learn about the INFP functions.
- How did Dana discover her personality type?
- How does Dana’s Effectiveness (Extraverted Thinking) 3 Year Old help her in her job as a home organizer?
- What was the most impactful piece for Dana when she discovered that she was an INFP?
- Dana explains how she uses Authenticity (Introverted Feeling) to make the best decisions for her.
- How has Dana incorporated her Exploration (Extraverted Intuition) Copilot into her life?
- What are some of the components that Dana finds essential for living her best life?
- What are some of the sacrifices that Dana has made in order to create her chosen lifestyle?
- Dana shares her life journey of how she got to where she is today.
- How did Dana experience letting go of emotions that had become habituated in her Memory (Introverted Sensing) 10 Year Old?
- What advice would Dana give to her younger self?
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Wow! Thank you, Dana, for sharing some of your experiences as an INFP. So much of what you said resonates with me. Its as if you were verbalized my own feelings. Your advice for your 15 year old self is exactly what I needed to hear at that age as well. I was going to almost write the same thing even the WOW weird. The thing is at the start she said about standing there looking like she is doing nothing and then putting everything in to place and it looks amazing this is what i do empty fields into gardens try to make houses look better also practical all in my head no plans i have had to become my own boss as well to become an INFP school was shit.. Also yeah depression hit me hard for 3 years or so when my grandad died and he left me is business the responsibility and the lack of understanding from others was hard to take huge random heart beats anxiety they say. I dealt with it myself but my advantage was i knew why it was happening its a funny thing to feel so bad and know why and it does not change. I believe future planning sense of purpose and setting life up to how you want to live. Do all INFPs think things and it happens?
Wow! Thank you, Dana, for sharing some of your experiences as an INFP. So much of what you said resonates with me. Its as if you were verbalized my own feelings. Your advice for your 15 year old self is exactly what I needed to hear at that age as well. I grew up in a household where doing the right thing and the socially expected thing was tantamount. I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I had the talent. But I was told that I would be wasting my intelligence and making a selfish decision because dancers don’t help people in their job and can’t support a family. Then I said I wanted to study psychology. My parents didn’t think that was acceptable either. Then I wanted to get a doctoral degree in ecological parasitology and that wasn’t allowed. So I went to medical school. When I told my parents I didn’t want to go to medical school and my reasoning was that it didn’t feel right, I was told that wasn’t a logical reason. So I stuffed my own desires down and did my duty while trying to convince myself I was doing what I liked. I suppressed my authenticity to such a degree that I was nervous when we had ice breakers in class and we had to share our favorite band or favorite color. I didn’t know the answer.
Eventually it caught up with me. I even picked my 2nd preferred specialty because I was discouraged against choosing psychiatry because I was told I would be wasting my medical school degree. 5 years after completing residency I ended up in a psychiatry ward as a patient for severe depression and suicidality as a result of essentially mourning the loss of my own self and my own authenticity. It took months of guided self evaluation to understand what was happening.
I can’t thank you enough for sharing your story and particularly your experience with depression as it relates to your type.