EMOTIONAL ARCHETYPES
Understanding your current response mechanisms is the 1st step to powerful change.
Discover your Emotional Archetype and learn how to work with your nervous system - not against it.
WHAT DRIVES ALL OF YOUR REACTIONS?
We all have emotional reflexes - the automatic ways we protect ourselves when our nervous system perceives threats.
There are various ways that humans subconsciously seek safety. Some of us disassociate, others go into overdrive, or focus on controlling other people or situations.
These mechanisms are at the root of all your fears, worries, doubt, and frustrations, but they aren’t who you are - they’re how you learned to stay safe.
The Archetype Quiz is your first step in understanding them so you can meet the core underlying emotions in new ways.
The Emotional Archetype Quiz helps you uncover:
✅ The core pattern your nervous system runs when you’re under stress
✅ The beliefs and fears driving that pattern
✅ The cost of staying in it — and what freedom might look like
✅ Simple ways to start rewiring your responses for more freedom, choice, and power.
Your triggers aren’t the problem - they’re the messengers
THE 8 ARCHETYPES
When you know which ones run the show, you can develop new ways to find safety that don’t cost your energy, connection, or peace.
Do any of these seem familiar to you?
Fixer/Caretaker
Super reliable, eldest-sibling energy. The stabiliser of the friend-group/family, organising and doing everything that others don’t, won’t, or can’t.
emotional safety net
being needed
Performer/Achiever
Smart, successful, and likely athletic too. Extremely capable, with a relentless spirit. Celebrates other people’s outcomes, but rarely their own.
emotional safety net
achievement
Forecaster
High anxiety from constantly thinking of worst-case scenarios, and inability to rely on others. Can be controlling and intimidating.
emotional safety net
prediction & control
Escape Artist
Avoiding unpleasant emotions and difficult situations, seeking out positive extremities, and distractions. Procrastinates.
emotional safety net
distance
Peacekeeper/Pleaser
Regulates other people’s nervous systems to regulate their own. Adept at helping, pleasing, or making others feel happy, often at the hidden cost of their own needs.
emotional safety net
belonging
Closed Book
Avoids getting too close to people, and rarely opens up. Has a hard time understanding their own emotions, resulting in a proportionate lack of empathy for other people.
emotional safety net
emotional unavailbility
Joker/Mask
Uses their quick wit and humour to keep emotional distance while retaining positive connection.
emotional safety net
deflection & lightness
Critic/Judge
Critical and particular about how things should be, and is intolerant when things are not the way they’d like them.
emotional safety net
righteousness
SECURITY GUARD TURNED PRISON WARDEN
These mechanisms kept us safe when we were still completely dependant on our caretakers.
They are coded deep in our subconscious and grew stronger each time they were proven right.
However, they work by avoiding emotions out of fear, rather than inspiring action from a position of choice.
One feels like a prison, the other has the energy of Freedom and Power.
EMOTIONAL MATURITY
Emotional maturity is being able to recognise, discern and RESPOND to things - no exceptions.
Recognising our default programming creates the space to press pause, recognise what emotions are present, and choose new ways to engage with, not instead of them.
There is no judgement for how anyone handles emotions. Maturity is having control and choice, while allowing others to have their own.
STEP 1
IdentifyIdentify how your nervous system currently responds to threats.
Realise it doesn’t know the difference between real vs perceived danger.
STEP 2
ConnectConnect with underlying emotional needs that have been ignored, repressed, or avoided.
Build healthy relationships with them - treat them as your best friends.
STEP 3
ChooseChoose how you respond, and be conscious of what narratives you want to protect.
Your mind can either be a prison or your playground.
EMOTIONAL SECURITY
Imagine your feelings as different people. Can you be a big enough human being that if you were to throw a house party, they would all be welcome?
Can you be such a space space for yourself that you are able to meet all of your aversions without dismissing/ hiding/ fearing them?
What kind of relationships could you build from this place? Who would you be surrounded by?
UNCOVER YOUR EMOTIONAL ARCHETYPE
Take the quiz today and get your detailed results emailed directly to you.
💫 Your Dominant emotional response archetype
💫 The fears and beliefs beneath it
💫 What freedom from it looks like
💫 A micro-practice to start re-programming it