Isabel “Belly” Conklin Personality Type, MBTI
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INFP (9w1)
Isabel “Belly” Conklin personality type is INFP, and she’s been writing about her experiences as a trans woman for the past few years on her blog The Belly of the Sun. She’s also the author of the book The Church of Perpetual Motion, which she says is “a meditation on moving through life in the face of adversity, finding beauty and truth despite inevitable pain.”
When Belly first started dating, she says she was desperate to find someone who would love her as herself. “I wanted them to see me as they do — as someone who is beautiful and kind, someone who is capable of love, who is capable of giving and receiving love. And when I finally did find someone who saw me that way, I was so happy, so grateful.”
The problem was that their relationship “didn’t last long.”
“My partner became increasingly withdrawn from me, and when I reacted to this seemingly uncharacteristic behavior with hurt and concern, she would get angry and accuse me of having ‘issues.’ ”
Belly says that many trans people struggle with self-esteem issues because our society shuns us for being different.
