The Inner House and the Seven Residents

Most of us talk about ourselves like we're one person. "I want this." "I feel that." "I don't know what's wrong with me." But what if the problem isn't that you're inconsistent or broken—but that you're a whole inner house, with different "residents" asking different questions?In this introductory episode of The Mind Enclosure, Dr. Toye Oyelese, a family physician in West Kelowna, BC with four decades of practice, walks through the core framework of the Inner House and its Seven Residents using the original written text. He explains how Trust, Autonomy, Initiative, Industry, Identity, Intimacy, and Generativity each hold a single driving question, how they sometimes align and sometimes clash, and why the "House Leader Problem" makes us feel like different versions of ourselves at different times.This episode stays close to the foundational writing—no added theories or metaphors—just gentle transitions and pauses to make the material conversational and easy to follow.