The Comprehensive INFP Survival Guide

by Heidi Priebe

following ways: 1. Obsessing over and/or wallowing in past mistakes. The Fi-Si loop often begins with a period of wallowing. The INFP may retreat to process a recent life upset–a breakup, a move or even a looming feeling of dissatisfaction towards their career–and slowly find themselves veering into obsessive territory. In this stage of the loop, the Fi-Si relationship functions as follows: Fi: I’m unhappy with my current circumstances. Si: It’s because you did x, y and z in the past, which led you here. Fi: I’m a bad person for having done those things. Si: Here are several more examples of times when you’ve proven yourself to be a bad person. The INFP may become fixated on their past actions during a loop, allowing their introverted sensing to feed them an increasing amount of information that corresponds to the perception they have formed about their identity or the situation at hand. 2. Failing to challenge past perceptions. The more the INFP engages in the Fi-Si feedback loop, the more they refuse to challenge the perceptions they’ve formed about their external environments. Introverted sensing will make predictions about how they’ll feel in the future based on how they’ve felt in similar situations in the past and the INFP will assume these projections to be true. In this stage of the loop, the Fi-Si relationship functions as follows: Fi: I wish I had more likeminded people to connect with. Si: The last time you went to a party you didn’t meet anyone interesting and ...

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