The Comprehensive INFP Survival Guide

by Heidi Priebe

achieving validation from others at all costs. More so than other INFP types, type 2s are likely to compromise their own desires in order to please others and receive positive validation. In an unhealthy state, Type 2 INFPs project blame externally. They place fault on others for behaving immorally, being unappreciative of the INFP and lacking compassion for others. They may shame or condemn those around them for not being more involved in the community or world issues that the INFP personally advocates for. They may also behave passive-aggressively towards loved ones, believing that the help they have given them ought to have been reciprocated without them having had to voice it. The Type 2 INFP’s route to personal growth lies in the development of their inferior extroverted thinking. The more confident the INFP becomes in their ability to set boundaries and tend to their own needs, the less reliant they