Instructions: I like to have my clients go to the 16 Personalities website (link button is above) and take their version of the popular Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. They will send you a report that I would like to encourage you to take time to read and reflect on. You might want to print it out and highlight or underline everything that you can connect with. Then, choose one of the journal pages below to write down the sentences or words that best describe who you know yourself to be.
Reflections: Throughout life’s different seasons we find ourselves lost, stuck, stagnant, wondering who we are? How we got lost? What causes us to get stuck? And, why we sometimes can’t feel ourselves or be open to being with others… Perhaps, we do not enjoy the things that used to bring us so much joy and happiness.
Connection to our self and others and the things we enjoy becomes harder—but it used to come so easy.
I believe that childhood is the season of the discovery of who we are! With each rotation around the sun, we slowly grow to know more of ourselves, without knowing or understanding we are also growing out of this season. Soon, we learn that we love being adults but the connection to ourselves, and our internal world, is not the focus anymore. Our focus becomes fixed to connecting us to the outside world and adjusting to the everyday stress of providing for ourselves.
Some of us seek higher education and enjoy connecting with the external world of college, and some of us immediately enter the workforce and begin the long journey of providing for ourselves. We grow our friendships and create our own families. Just as the seasons roll by each year, I believe there is a purpose for re-visiting the childhood of growth and reconnecting to ourselves to begin to know and be known, again...
Connection to our self and others and the things we enjoy becomes harder—but it used to come so easy.
I believe that childhood is the season of the discovery of who we are! With each rotation around the sun, we slowly grow to know more of ourselves, without knowing or understanding we are also growing out of this season. Soon, we learn that we love being adults but the connection to ourselves, and our internal world, is not the focus anymore. Our focus becomes fixed to connecting us to the outside world and adjusting to the everyday stress of providing for ourselves.
Some of us seek higher education and enjoy connecting with the external world of college, and some of us immediately enter the workforce and begin the long journey of providing for ourselves. We grow our friendships and create our own families. Just as the seasons roll by each year, I believe there is a purpose for re-visiting the childhood of growth and reconnecting to ourselves to begin to know and be known, again...