Episode 7 show notes:

* Mochi, our special canine guest.

* Looking back at Victoria’s *thrilling* last episode.

* Our podcast intent: Laying out what it is to be identified with our type and run by our instincts - and, what it is to be in the practice of untangling ourselves from the bind of our personality.

* Re-cap of self-pres instinct in health and distortion.

* Really good work has been happening for Bryce, in relationship with his dominant instinct.

* And what follows is more “Bryce in his past, more in his personality”.

* Bryce’s shame of having the preserving drive dominant.

* Unconscious denial of envy.

* Feeling not-so-expressive as a self-pres Four artist.

* Self-censorship, riskiness, carefulness.

* Holding in, embarrassment, shame, not wanting to “cause a problem”.

* Fear in the body.

* Envy has Bryce denying his self-pres fear, as it sounds gross and weak!

* Not so good at handling self-pres needs - why?!

* Abandoned by God, spirit, creation.

* Victoria brings in some political humor:)

* Oy! the tension in Bryce’s body!

* The self-pres instinct - as a Four - running deeper than a focus on the material things.

* Perennial battle around self-worth.

* Not looking for your sympathy!!!!!!!!!!!

* The end of endless journeying, introspecting, selfing.

* Service to others is the medicine for Bryce.

* Feeling invisible, particularly with a repressed sexual instinct.

* Fear of rejection vs. feeling chosen and safe.

* Paralleling Victoria’s last-episode share of her biggest previous relationship, Bryce tells the story from his 20s of meeting his now-ex-wife.

* The story includes flavors of “The Sensualist” - experiencing the sensuality of his body, pleasure, pain.

* Self-pres dominant instinct pulls Bryce inward to his Four psyche, soul, and also his body.

* Victoria speaks to Bryce’s “too cool for school move”, which he explains as being terrified on the inside.

* Bryce’s perplexing mix of self-pres Four attraction-toward, self-isolating-away, and just-general-humanness.

* The self-pres instinct mixing with the Four: “protecting the heart”.

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