What You Need to Know About the ISFP Female
What You Need to Know About the ISFP Female
You may already know the standard ISFP (introverted, sensing, feeling, perceiving) personality type, but this post focuses specifically on those traits typical of the ISFP female. Keep in mind that these observations may not apply to all female ISFPs, though you’ll likely recognize a handful if you’re lucky enough to have a female ISFP in your life!
Notable traits of the ISFP female
Highly introspective
The combination of introverted, feeling and perceiving traits makes the female ISFP highly introspective and particularly emotionally. But whether this tendency to look inward benefits the ISFP can depend on several factors.
If the ISFP can easily pull herself out of this introspective state when necessary, it will be to her great advantage, and will develop a positive sense of self-awareness. On the other hand, when some female ISFPs get stuck in their own soul searching, they can begin to neglect the responsibilities and people in their lives.
Processing emotions
Women of the ISFP personality type are often well attuned to their own emotional experiences and adept at processing these emotions through various means. They might, for example, use journaling, exercising, or art to process positive feelings and work through negative ones.
Female ISFPs are also usually good listeners and well attuned to the emotions of others. They may have the necessary toolkit and caretaker's guiding spirit to help their friends or family with their own emotional processing, making them surprisingly good people to turn to after a crisis.
Quiet yet creatively expressive
Female ISFPs are not usually inclined to draw attention to themselves while in groups. This social quietness could be genuine shyness, yet sometimes the ISFP is perfectly confident and just prefers to stay in the background.
Despite this reservation, you’ll find that ISFPs can actually be extremely expressive, they just tend to express themselves through creative means. This means most female ISFPs have artsy or crafty hobbies (or careers!) that they excel at.
Value of alone time
Though some female ISFPs can be quite social in their own demure way, nearly all of them place huge value on spending time alone regularly. They can easily feel drained after spending time with other people, so this solo reprieve is essential to recharging their batteries. How an ISFP might spend their alone time can vary greatly. Some prefer to be active while others are happiest truly putting their feet up to rest.
Defiant of tradition
Female ISFPs like to behave and express themselves in ways that follow their true feelings. Combine this with their non-judgemental outlook, which allows them to easily accept different ways of life, and you get women who feel free to break from tradition when it suits them. This forging of their own unique path can be reflected in their lifestyle, career, fashion, and numerous other ways.
Interest in fairness
Though female ISFPs are more geared toward perceiving than judging, they can be very invested in ensuring fairness. This may be because, as more sensitive and quiet souls, they may have been unfairly overlooked or dismissed at various points in their lives.
The female ISFP and relationships
The female ISFP as a partner
Female ISFPs are prone to falling in love particularly hard. The combination of the sensing and feeling traits makes for feelings that resonate deeply and a need for plenty of physical passion. Furthermore, their perceiving nature means they’ll likely come to know their partner better than anyone else, so they can be excellent confidants and emotional advisors to them.
If a female ISFP is paired with another creative person, they can find themselves fulfilling the muse figure due to their deep soulfulness. Of course, artist/muse relationships are delicate and should be treated responsibly by both parties. Genuine care and compassion are a must.
The female ISFP as a mother
The defining trait of the ISFP mother is the commitment to her children. Though she may not make a song and dance about what a brilliant mother she is, you can be sure that she’s doing everything she can to make sure her children are fulfilled and well supported.
Being a more nontraditional type, it’s likely that an ISFP mother will take a different approach to parenting than that which she was raised under. She seeks to find what works to uplift her children specifically rather than looking for general “one-size-fits-all” methods of parenting. This means she’s a particularly good mother to children who are outliers in one way or another.
Quotes from positive female ISFP role models
Are you an ISFP female? Or perhaps you’re looking for heroic figures to compare to the female ISFPs you know. Either way, it can be good to have some ISFP personality type role models in mind. Here are some ISFP-minded quotes from positive female role models in the ISFP category:
Lady Gaga - “You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.”
Barbara Streisand - “Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.”
Nicole Kidman - “I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back.”
Audrey Hepburn - “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - “I’ll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.”
