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

I've been a big fan of Lauren's work for many years now, and this book does not disappoint. As a 'repressed' creative and writer, her insights into INFJ's like me are uncanny and so very comforting. The way we receive and process information is unique, and instead of trying to change or work around these channels, Lauren encourages the INFJ to embrace these characteristics and use them to your advantage. She encourages you to trust this information and intuition, even if it feels wacky to do so at first, even if it doesn't make sense logically - following the heart, following your interests and obsessions, allowing enough time to process and check in with our sometimes disconnected emotions - all of this is good medicine to the INFJ soul. She explains it all beautifully and her style of writing is warm, intimate, and comforting. INFJ's know they are different, but can't quite put their finger on why, or how, or how to make sense of it all. The author really nails it with this book, and there is no hiding from the truth of it. We are different, and if we want to embrace our full potential, we must use these differences for the betterment of ourselves, and ultimately, humanity. This is a must read!!!

Years ago I took the Myers Briggs test and discovered I was an INFJ. "Oh cool," I thought. And filed that information away.Almost a decade later, I took the test again to reconfirm -- yup, still an INFJ. I read The INFJ writer several months before reading this book, and as a copywriter and writing coach for business owners, this spoke to me on a soul level.I'd put The INFJ Writer at the top of the list of books that changed my life. The INFJ Revolution takes the tie.Just 20 pages into it and I was sad that the book had an ending. Imagine that, feeling sad for the end of a book before even reading the thing! This is THAT good.The interesting thing about INFJs, is that even though we're rare — we're attracted to each other. Many of my clients and closest friends are INFJs, ENFJs, INFPs, and ENFPs.This book served as confirmation and validation -- I am absolutely on the right path.

Like all of Lauren's writing, INFJ Revolution is honest, raw, and compassionate. She writes with admirable clarity on a topic that can be extremely difficult to explain and demonstrates mastery of the subject matter while sharing her own life experiences and baring her soul for the reader. For an INFJ or INFP, reading this book feels like reading a manual on how your own mind works; an experience that is both uncanny and indescribably comforting. The result is a sort of personal and creative enlightenment that, if you choose to harness your newfound knowledge, has the potential to be nothing short of life-changing. I would recommend this book to any INFJ or INFP, and I would even recommend to any other personality type who is simply curious; Lauren's tales of how she was living and then came to recognize the different facets of the INFJ personality type makes this book enlightening for any reader.

I'm a true INFJ. At least, I thought I was, until I started this book. The author rambles on about HER experiences and HER revelations. I endured half the book, still hoping for insight, before I gave up. Don't bother. I only hope, that as a INFJ "counselor" that she has pursued a formal path to education and has credentials.

If you’re one of these personality types she discusses (infj, infp), Lauren’s writing will unlock doors, windows, and paths into your soul. She makes sense of how we work and why. Then explains it with great flow. Her understanding, casual delivery, and explanations are like a Bat-signal for intuitive creatives, blasting a light into the stormy sky, saying “Here I am, here we are, you’re not alone!”. I cannot express how invaluable her insightful gifts are, and how much her two Infj books have helped me understand myself and my creative process. It’s a form of validation to see a reflection of yourself in others. I consumed this book in less than 24 hrs, and it was absolutely worth the sleep deprivation. Her work is worth every cent and every second of time. Stop searching for the next self help book and read this for self explanation. Understanding yourself will take you far further than being told to think in a new way. Thank you, Lauren, you’ve done a great service for us creatives by walking the path ahead and reporting back your findings. You took a spirit journey and I absolutely see you. Thanks for seeing me.

If you are an INFJ, INFP, ENFJ, or ENFP in the MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) OR if you are a highly sensitive, intuitive person, you need to get your hands on this book. I'm an ENFJ that feels more like an introvert and can relate a lot to the INFJ type. I had read Lauren's book, THE INFJ WRITER, and found it incredibly helpful so I figured I might like this book too. I loved it! THE INFJ REVOLUTION helped me feel seen, heard, and validated. There were times when I read passages and I thought, how can Lauren feel the exact way I do?!? I had never thought that other people might feel the exact same insecurities and anxieties in the same way that I did. It was a revelation. I plan on re-reading this book often to remind myself of my strengths and unique gifts, and how much the world needs them. Highly recommended for every sensitive and intuitive person's bookshelf!

I am an INTJ with an INFJ daughter, who found hope, comfort, and some relief while grieving for the people pleasers who struggle for peace and freedom in our mainstream culture, as we transition to a more balanced world. Lauren Salada explains the unexplainable in a dynamic way. I am grateful for her insights and personal stories that help to put the Introverted Intuitive gifts in perspective. This is ultimately an emotional pep talk for trauma survivors of all types and a call for help. For future editions, I would like to see more emphasis on tools for Self Care of the INFJ & INFP, such as the Kriya Yoga meditation techniques taught by Self Realization Fellowship. Never give up; seek and ye shall find.

At this point I'm not sure how many books have been written on this subject, but this is the first one I've either seen or read. The last year of my life has been a complicated mix of emotional turmoil as my life changed in devastating, irreversible ways. I completed therapy to see me through all of this, and went into deep, self-help reading mode where I learned I was a highly sensitive person for the first time in my life - I didn't know what that was until then. I am 48 years old. The only thing I was aware of was a long life of never feeling understood, and as though I was a little bit weird. I never followed, or was even in, the crowd. There were so many AHA! moments in this book I almost couldn't breathe at times. How could someone I never met, who lived hundreds of miles from me, be experiencing an almost identical set of circumstances to my own? Not only that, how can it be true that there are more of us? I can't recommend this book highly enough. Why? Not only for its wonderful writing and thought-provoking content but for its stunning accuracy about the inner and external world of an INFJ person - which I only learned I am from reading this. I already know reading it will be a crucial springboard for me to a very different, more awakened life. The best news? I'm not weird! Or if I am... there are thousands more being weird with me ;) I'm not alone. This was a wonderful book and a wonderful discovery. Thank you to the author for writing it.

As a therapist, master executive coach with 20 plus years’ experience and MBTI practitioner … and, most importantly, as an INFJ I was looking forward to reading Lauren’s book. With the book behind me the empath within me is deeply concerned – this book has the potential to harm a lot of good people. What is good about the book is Lauren captures many of the mostly misunderstood aspects of being an INFJ, something that can be very seductive and disarming for people who feel vulnerable and misunderstood, something narcissists are so good at taking advantage of – and INFJs are mostly misunderstood and we so desperately want to be understood. However, it became increasingly clear that there is no true knowledge, no substance in this book beyond the opinion of someone who things she speaks for INFJs (and INFPs). If you take out all the long-winded stories about herself and the drawn-out claims to answers that don’t materialise, the substance in the book would cover no more than a few pages. Subtly conveyed in the book are inconsistent ideas that dangerously stereotype introversion and extroversion inappropriately. The ideas about creativity only being possible within an unstable environment reflects popularist nonsense – I find my greatest creativity within a state of deep, profound stillness – and there is nothing more stable than stillness. To associate wisdom with the irrational, demonstrates Lauren has no understanding of truth and wisdom – reading her book I find the tell-tale signs of the bandwagon of popularist thinking. The path of wisdom is stillness, simplicity, truth, love, reason, service and self-mastery and is opposite to the path of ignorance characterised by complexity, disquiet, self-absorption, emotional drama and irrationality. The book reflects the bandwagon of gender polarisation that disempowers women and men alike and is exactly the binary sexist gender stereotyping our species does not need. While Lauren seduces the reader with her personal insight into the experience of an INFJ, I found her claims to having the answers have no substance – there are no pragmatic answers that reflect real knowledge and experience in this book. In fact, nowhere in the book does Lauren convey the essential truth that no one is an INFJ or an ESTJ or any other type. We are not the type, we are not the state, the thinking, the feeling nor the associated behavioural profiles for any of the types – we are the consciousness that observes all of that conditioned identity and behaviour. What I have learnt from the book is that it is dangerous, written by an angry person with unresolved issues who is preoccupied with herself in her own narcissism. If you’re thinking of reading this book, make sure you remember to think and discern for yourself … and BTW being an INFJ is not about being ‘weird’, which Lauren repeatedly dramatizes … narcissists are masters at manipulating people and one strategy is to unite people into a following by creating a common enemy … an enemy who labels us as ‘weird’. Subtle 'them and us' manipulation. As an INFJ you have some super-strengths (no different to the other types) and what makes our strengths so unique is that they are outside the normative behaviours throughout our world and so desperately needed by our world (species). Be you on purpose. Discern and think for yourself.

After reading The INFJ Writer I was interested to read more of Lauren's work. Like many of her audience I am an INFJ and find her work uplifting and enjoyed encouraging.

I devoured the book in 1 day. I picked it up in order to understand better what a typical INFJ is like in order to rule it out for me and I am definitely not it. It was nice to read about what INFJs actually go through inside their heads and feelings. I didn't know you are such empaths.Even if you don't buy into MBTI, it's still a great opening into a very unique type of personality.

Lauren really has the nack for writing about INFJs. Will definitely read this book again. Highlighted many notes throughout, which I'm sure I'm not the first INFJ to do, lol! This is the second book I have now read of Lauren's, the first being 'The INFJ Writer' - another great book to read more than once. I think the next I'll read of hers will be 'Firefly Magic'. Happy reading folks!