#Lauren Sapala

[princessoftheroad]

When you feel like no one understands you, but at the same time you understand so many people to the core of their soul - and your values clash with just about everything else on earth - the outlook can appear pretty grim.

#lauren sapala #loneliness #lonely #isolated #struggling #no one understands #only you #frustrated #keep going #don't give up #don't be afraid #you are strong #you can do it #you have the power #keep searching #you are not alone #believe in yourself #infj #introvert #beyond your age #beyond your awareness #rest if you must #you will find what you're looking for #believe #you are gonna make it #you're stronger than you think #limited beliefs

[goblinscribe]

I'm an INFP, and this advice kind of flies in the face of conventional writing wisdom. Essentially, don't be afraid to juggle between as many as 5 or 10 writing projects at once, because that keeps the creative process new and novel for you, and your intuition will guide you to what you need to be working on at any given time. Part of me finds that prospect terrifying, while another part of me thinks it sounds exciting.

Could this be exactly what the doctor ordered? I don't know! I'll try it for a while and report back...one day. This feels like the kind of thing that could take months, if not years, to determine how well it's working.

#wisdom #lauren sapala #infp #writing #Youtube #video

[mevsimsizcicek]

Haziran'22

Bazen içime bir duygu gelip yerleşiyor, saatlerce nereye gittiğimi bilmeden çılgınlar gibi ağlayarak koşsam geçecek sanıyorum.

Ayy terapi iyi gidiyor, hiç ağlamıyorum dedikten sonraki ilk görüşmemden itibaren ağlamaktan konuşmaya fırsatım kalmamaya başladı. Bir kere be bir kere maşallah dediğim yaşasın.

Aslında yazmak istediğim çok şey vardı ama hiç enerjim yok. Bir haftadır ajandamı da dolduramıyorum galiba. O kadar yok enerjim.

Koşuya başladım milyarıncı kez yeniden. Koştuktan sonra beyin hücrelerime bir şeyler oluyor, bunu nasıl anlatsam acaba? Hislerimin rengi değişiyor sanırım. Siyahtan yeşile dönüşü tüm hücrelerimle hissediyorum. Kısa sürüyor ama olsun nefes almaya yetiyor.

Okuduklarım

-The INFJ Revolution ( Lauren Sapala)

-The Miracle Morning (Hal Elrod)

#aylık

[jacobnordby]

I’m so excited to offer this retreat as host and teacher with Anne Lamott, Julia Cameron, Lauren Sapala, Linda Jones, and Sam Lamott.

Click here to learn more and join us

#jacob nordby #amwriting #creativity #healing #trauma #writing #writers #writers block #writersociety #anne lamott #julia cameron

[sticky-nits]

In all my years of coaching, I’ve run into a definite pattern with INFJ and INFP artists and writers. It seems that most of us don’t decide to pursue our true calling until later in life. Usually, it’s after 40. Now, this doesn’t mean that we don’t feel the stirrings of inspiration or the pull to create long before then, but it’s not usually until we’re entering the latter half of life that we make the conscious decision to take the plunge and just do it, whatever “it” may be. Why does it take us so long? Is it true that most INFJ and INFP personality types are just late bloomers and need more time than the rest of the population to figure out what they really want to do in life? Well, I would say that this is part of it, but only part. There is another, deeper, reason that so many sensitive intuitive people seem to have a whole lot of trouble with picking one path and then taking it. Because that’s not the way our brains work. Although there are differences between how INFJs and INFPs process information, there is one big similarity that affects our ability to choose one story, one project, or one trajectory. It’s that—always—we go deep, and we go wide. Our minds are like giant nets that we’re constantly pulling through the ocean of the world, always hoping to catch the sparkling, luminescent sea creatures for which we never stop searching. Those glowing evasive creatures are the ideas that turn us on and light us up from the inside out, and to capture them we instinctively know that we need to focus on expansion, not limitation. Expansion…not limitation. This is the way we are wired, to see all  the possibilities at once, even if some of them are maybe less “possible” than others.

Lauren Sapala, https://laurensapala.com/?p=7994

#infp #infj #infp personality #infj personality #infp writing #infj writing #infp literature #infp creativity #infp music #infp art #procrastination #infp poetry #infp procrastination #dreamer #infp dreamers #writing #lauren sapala

[leoandsapphire]

Anyone else out there an intuitive writer? I’ve only recently stumbled upon this definition, but it’s been an amazing revelation to me. I’m an infj, and though I had purchased The INFJ Writer, by Lauren Sapala, I’d never read it. Then I watched her three short videos below (scroll down to the third one on the page to start). It’s opened up and improved my writing process so much that I wanted to share it. Each video is prefaced by information about a class that Lauren is teaching, but what she talks about afterwards is really enlightening. Quick clues that you might be an IW: outlines and diagramming stymie you, when you write it may feel like you’re translating what you observe and feel from the characters and the surroundings. You may also have difficulty finishing stories you start (ahem). If you identify as strongly with what she says as I did, I’d love to know about it.

http://laurensapala.com/?p=11231

#lauren sapala #intuitive writers #intuitive writing #infj #infp #and i daresay a few intj types as well.

[survivingmexico]

The INFJ Writer: Cracking the Creative Genius of the World’s Rarest Type by Lauren Sapala

The INFJ Writer: Cracking the Creative Genius of the World’s Rarest Type by Lauren Sapala

First, I need to preface that according to the Meyer-Briggs assessment, I’m an INFP-A so I’m not exactly the target audience this book was aiming at. However, it was a recommendation from the Introvert Writer Summit I enjoyed at the beginning of March and being introverted, I hoped that there would be something useful for me in it. And there was! I felt validated as both an introvert and writer…

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#book review #books for writers #The INFJ Writer: Cracking the Creative Genius of the World’s Rarest Type by Lauren Sapala

[awriterspath]

What Self-Pubbing Authors Need to Know About Getting the Best Book Cover

What Self-Pubbing Authors Need to Know About Getting the Best Book Cover

  by Lauren Sapala   Studies have proven again and again that humans make purchasing decisions based on emotional factors. This probably happens most frequently in the glittering online jungle known as Amazon.com. I read recently that Amazon is the only search engine people use with the mouse in one hand, and a credit card in the other. (more…)

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#Authors #blog #blogging #books #fiction #literature #publishing #Writers #Writing

[16th-cornelia-street]

Made this post on my patreon [https://www.patreon.com/WishaDream] (thought I’d share it with you)

I've always had trouble with marketing, with "selling" myself. It doesn't come naturally, it doesn't feel natural, or right.

Recently I took the MBTI test and found out I am an INFJ, that might not mean anything to you, but to me it meant a lot. I've never understood myself, why I do things, why people don't understand me. I spend so much time caring about others, but no one else seems to take the time to learn about me.

Anyway, that also lead me to a podcast "The INFJ personality show by Bo Miller" where one of his guests talked about her book on Marketing for INFJ writers. "Firefly Magic" by Lauren Sapala.

At this point I'm still reading it, but a lot of what she says vibes with me. So if you are in the same boat, you might check it out. At the time of this post she has the book available to all who sign up for her newsletter.

#patreon #mbti #marketing #writing

[thestoryreadingape]

5 Best pieces of advice for aspiring writers- by Lauren Sapala...

5 Best pieces of advice for aspiring writers- by Lauren Sapala…

I get emails and messages from aspiring writers all the time asking me for the one thing they should know, or the one thing they should do, in order to be a successful writer. Well, there’s never just “one thing,” but I’ve taken all my very best writing advice and distilled it down into five things that will help any aspiring writer along on their way to success. Continue reading HERE

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#Informative

[princessoftheroad]

The INFJ Revolution: Reclaim Your Power, Live Your Purpose, Heal the World

For my whole life, in one way or another, it seemed like everyone around me was always trying to convince me to settle. All sorts of people had told me that I had to be content with a job I hated, or a relationship that was mediocre. Or they let me know that they didn’t think my big idea (whatever that big idea was at the moment) would work and listed all the reasons why. I didn’t get it. I never did this to people. Even in my darkest days when I was full of self-loathing, I still never shot down the hopes and dreams of others. Quite the opposite. When someone had what they thought was a big, brilliant idea, it turned me on and got me excited. I wanted to hear all about it. I wanted to dream about all the possibilities with them.

#lauren sapala #books #don't put a label on yourself #don't settle #darkestdays #hope #dreams #don't give up #excited #all about it #i wanna hear you #all the possibilities #fight for me #fight for my life #fight for my future #whole life #new things #new beginnings #start again #optimism #you are not alone #keep discovering yourself #self discovery #patience #you can do it #your reasons #find your tribe #find your thing #trust your heart #hear me out

[earthsickwithoutyou]

“One of the main problems Sensitive Intuitives have in writing, as well as in general, is that they try to make themselves fit into the patterns that the larger culture has taken on.  This is why so many Sensitive Intuitives are busily engaged trying to grow that thick skin in order to take harsh critiques, or trying to learn how to think up snarky, witty zingers to fire back at people in conversation.  These types of behaviors are damaging to the Sensitive Intuitive because they interfere and conflict with the inherent, deeply held values that fuel [their] purpose in life.  Limitless compassion.  Finding beauty in the underappreciated.  Patience devoted to a job well loved.  These are the values that set Sensitive Intuitives on fire.  Not competition and not reward-based approval systems.  It only follows that the ideal writing group for the Sensitive Intuitive will be one that integrates the values of the Sensitive Intuitive, and leaves unnecessary aggression and judgement behind in the mainstream culture.” -from The INFJ Writer: Cracking the Creative Genius of the World’s Rarest Type, by Lauren Sapala

#infj mbti #infj #infj quotes #writing stuff #writing groups #critiques #values

[weirdletter]

I Transgress: An Anthology of Transgressive Fiction, edited by Chris Kelso, Salò Press, 2019. Cover painting by Hieronymus Bosch, internal illustrations by Nick Patterson, Jim Agpalza, info: salopress.weebly.com.

“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth. — Georges Bataille”

Contents: Introduction – Chris Kelso Solidarity Forever – Nick Mamatas from: Fifty Catacomb States – Iain Sinclair Torns From Something – Dennis Cooper Apologies – Michael Salerno California Night – Lauren Sapala From All The Ugly Things – Gary J. Shipley The Healer And The Ailing Archer – The Residents The Cinematographer – Thomas Moore I Am Genghis Cum – Violet LeVoit Brian’s Girl – Garrett Cook Half-Hearted Confessions of a Gelignite Dolly-Bird – Andrew Gallix Old Blue Eyes – Scott Philips Regard It As Bread – Matthew Revert Puppies – Samuel R. Delany The Small Space Fuck – Laura Lee Bahr The Ushers – Edward Lee Sangomas – Joshua Chaplinsky Will to Fuck All – R.G. Robertson Baby Hater (excerpt) – C.V. Hunt A Little Cloud – James Joyce Support the Troops by Giving them Posthumous Boners – Tom Bradley

#book #weird fiction #dark fiction #horror fiction #transgressive fiction #transgression #anthology

[hurlinkandwit]

#me #infj #my posts

[straydog733]

2019 Reading Resolution!

It is 2019 and I'm ready to hit the ground running with a new Reading Resolution! My friend and I modified last year's list a bit, replaced a couple categories and modified others, and I'm excited for what the year can bring.

If anyone has recommendations for some good books that would fit any of these categories, let me know!

2019 Reading Resolution


A book written in North America: Hell is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement edited by Jean Casella, James Ridgeway and Sarah Shourd

A book written in Central America: Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya, translated by Katherine Silver

A book written in South America: The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto “Che” Guevara

A book written in East Asia: Confessions by Kanae Minato, translated by Stephen Snyder

A book written in South Asia: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

A book written in Africa: Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan

A book written in the Middle East: Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World edited and translated by Niloufar Talebi

A book written in Australia/Oceania
: Cocaine Blues: A Phryne Fisher Mystery by Kerry Greenwood

A book written in Russia:

A book written in Europe: Red: A History of the Redhead by Jacky Colliss Harvey

A biography: Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life by Marta McDowell

A non-fiction book: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 by Anna Deavere Smith

A collection of short stories: Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung

A collection of poetry: Not My White Savior: A Memoir in Poems by Julayne Lee

A play: M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang

A book you’ve seen adapted: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

A graphic novel: In Real Life by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang

A children’s book: Matilda by Roald Dahl

A book older than 100 years: Utopia by Thomas More

A debut novel: The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting by Alanna Okun

A novel by a famous author, other than the one(s) they are best known for: Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

A book we’re intimidated by*:

A book we read in high school/college and hated: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

A book we read in high school/college and loved: Children of a Lesser God by Mark Medoff

A book by an author you’ve never given a fair shot: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

A book you’ve heard bad things about: Vox by Christina Dalcher

A book released in 2019: The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark

A book you’ve started but never finished: The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

A book that has been sitting on your shelf for a while: Disobedience by Naomi Alderman

Wild Card: The Secret Life of Clowns: A Backstage Tour of Cirque du Soleil and The Clown Conservatory by Jeff Raz

Books Outside of the List:

31. Bonus book: Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisley

32. Bonus book: West Is San Francisco by Lauren Sapala

33. Bonus book: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

List Progress: 28/30 (+3)

And despite not completing it at all last year, I'm going to take another shot at my film list. Wish me luck and send your recs!

2019 Film Watching Resolution

A foreign film: The Handmaiden (2016)

A black and white film: 12 Angry Men (1957)

A silent or dialogue-free film: Deafula (1975)

An animated film: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

A film based on a true story: Other People (2016)

A documentary: Period. End of Sentence. (2018)

A film based on a book: Gerald’s Game (2017)

An Oscar-winning movie: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

A trashy movie: Murder Party (2007)

Your best friend’s favorite movie: Velvet Goldmine (1998)

A children’s film: Detective Pikachu (2019)

A film released in 2019: Isn’t It Romantic (2019)

Films Outside the List:

13. Tell It To The Bees (2018)

14. We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2019)

15. And Then There Were None (2015)

16. Greta (2018)

17. Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)

18. Knives Out (2019)

19. The Princess Switch (2018)

List Progress: 12/12 (+7)

*#22 on the reading list was originally “a book we’ve lied about reading”, but I realized that I had run out of books for that category. It is now replaced with a category from previous years, “a book we’re intimidated by”.

#straydog's reading resolution #let's go!

[discover-love-heal]

Fierce Introverts

The thing that make me different are the things that make me - Winnie the Pooh.

Introverts are misinterpreted frequently. Often known to be the “odd balls” of the world. Good news! The following books suggested speak solely to ALL introverts. Especially, fierce introverts. We desire to contribute in this world.

Fierce introverts strive to be the “go getters” of the world, but are often chosen over, or “steamed rolled.”  It is our confusing personality. I’m sure some introverts can relate, because we don’t conform.

Never judge an introvert. While our personality may confusing to some - we are NOT challenging to understand. We deliver heart, intelligence, and adversity than most would believe to be true. Luck favors the brave. Fierce introverts are brave. The world is starting to recognize an introvert’s unique personality. Please keep being the dreamer, harmonizer, healer, doer, and intuitive guru in this world.

These books are meant to explain an introvert’s personality and vision for life. Being an introvert, I found these two books useful.

1. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking.

Author. Susan Cain.

Book Review: The book is pretty much the “holy grail” for introverts. The author’s writings are researched while delivering a wonderful analysis about the meaning behind being an introvert.

Author quote: “I’ve seen first hand how difficult it is for introverts to take stock of their own talents and how powerful it is when they finally do.”

The INFJ Revolution.

Author: Lauren Sapala

Book Review: This book I found to be insightful, because the author helps introverts discover their truth while stepping into their empowerment.

Author Quote: “If we have the courage to own what we are and fully tap into it, there is no telling what a profound impact we could have on the world.”

Like many introverts, I love reading books while being entangled in my sacred space. Truly, both authors pulled several mesmerizing ideas to guide us introverts. It is possible us introverts leave a new mark on the world during a new decade full of transformation. Embrace being an introvert. Nobody can compare.

Blogger: Lindsey Hayes

#book introvert lifestyle selfdevlopment