In this reflection I consider dysfunction as different and owning one's difference versus being different and trying to fit in.   Supporting themes:  Sisterhood, enmeshment, love and growth; Judging friendships and conflicts; Reviewing 2025; Leadership and vulnerability; Facebook and personal growth; Sitting on a nail; Design living; Ground Zero; Dignified income;  Personal accountability.   Special note: This is the final episode of Season 11. Will see you for Season 12 in February (2026)!!!  Until I come back, be well!  :)   Typology: INTJ; Enneagram 8; INTJ8

In this reflection I discuss epistemic grief and disconfirming recognition.     Typology:  INTJ8

In this reflection I explore a radio as a "vehicle" exploring two metaphors: a) Growth; and b) Encrypted communications.   Supporting themes:  Metaphors (significant and basic); Cell (a metaphor for systems theory); RICO law (a metaphor for psychologically harmful systems); Spaceship launch (a metaphor for outgrowing friends); Learning theory and growth; Songwriting; Emotional awareness; Emotional growth; Emotional needs; Responsible self acceptance; An evolving/maturing thesis (T0; T1; etc).    Special note:  The second metaphor (regarding encrypted communications) was rushed and incomplete (I ran out of time). I am looking forward to returning so I can linger in it and discover its hidden goodies.     Typology:  INTJ8; Ni; Te; Fi; Type 8 and Type 5. 

In this reflection I push through a potpourri, myriad and tapestry of thoughts and discover a hidden denominator impacting my interactions with women. Supporting themes: Insecurities with accuracy, Consistency and knowing; Being effective vs being accurate; Theory building; Conflict and intimacy; Vulnerability and feelings. Topology: INTJ8; NI domness; Ti; Te; Fi

In this reflection I use an email that I received a few days ago to expand the conversation around interpersonal conflict.  Supporting themes:  Enmeshment; Epistemic equality; AI analysis.   Typology:  INTJ; Enneagram 8; ISFJ; ISFP; INFP.  

In reflection I process a pattern with my friendships around who gets to name an offence and whose emotions are valid.   Supporting themes:  Power; Soft dominance; Hard dominance; Social hierarchies; Communication; Self-advocacy; Holding two competing needs equally.   Typology:  INTJ, Enneagram 8; ISFJ

In this reflection I consider a spiritual calling from a neurological perspective, a psychological perspective, and an environmental experience. 

In this reflection I discover core truths that had been hidden within.   Supporting themes: Body intelligence; Emotions; Teaching; Leadership; consider the pull of the body as an intelligence center.    Topology: INTJ8; Te; Fi

This reflection is Part II to last week's episode: "A Rock and a Hard Place."  In it, I discuss the dark side to a recent decision I made. Supporting themes:  Love, pride and logic; Learning affect; Professional development; Culture, family and Black space; Race and Gender; Feminism; Authenticity and Autonomy; Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD); Teaching and Leading.   Typology:  INTJ8  

In this reflection, I explore what feels like the necessity of an unfortunate decision.    Supporting themes: The classroom; Authenticity within context; Accessible authenticity vs inaccessible authenticity vs entitled accessibility; Authenticity as an inner experience or an outer experience; Breakthroughs in my grief (clarity); Therapy; Black spaces; and much more.   Typology: INTJ8

In this reflection, I do a meta-reflection to last week's "Low Places" episode.   Supporting themes:  Juxtaposition between joy and optimism.  Garth Brook's lyrics to "Low Places."

In this reflection, I am in a low place and I introduce a strategy I am starting in route to my big (my mastermind).   Typology:  INTJ8; ESFP

In this reflection I revisit the idea of liking and/or not liking a person.   Typology:  Te linked to Se (INTJ) vs Te linked to Ne (ISTJ). 

In this reflection I talk about the moods that impact taking action.   Supporting themes:  Returning to employment (although it feels like I am selling myself into slavery); The Trump administration; Mood (or emotions) that causes action paralysis.   Typology: INTJ8

In this Take 2 reflection, I explore leadership as an issue of positionality vs orientation. Supporting themes: Racial and cultural implications of leadership; Leading upward; Song writing; The White coding of AI; Teaching and learning; Impostor syndrome. Special note: This reflection replaces a recording I did on August q8, 2025. Typology: INTJ8

In this reflection, I explore wellness as relating to neuroticism (in how the Big Five treats neuroticism).    

In this reflection I consider a low-frequency event from a month ago and consider it within my discovery of self worth. Supporting themes: Structural harm; College dorms; Pro- Black politics; Black belongingness; Bullying as play and the psychology of passive aggressive behaviors; Emotions. Special note: This is a re- recording of a failed episode I did a month ago. Typology: INTJ; Enneagram eight regression to the five.

In this reflection I work through a conflict that occurred while on travels.     Typology:  INTJ, Enneagram 8