The Stress Response Quiz: Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn?
Your stress response isn’t random - it’s a survival pattern.
We all fight, flee, freeze, or fawn to protect ourselves unconsciously & which shows up depends on who you’re with and what feels like a threat mentally, emotionally, or physically.
This quick quiz helps you uncover the why behind your reactions, how they shape your relationships, conflict style, emotional world, and get a free guide with steps to start shifting the cycle. PS - there’s no gatekeeping behind credit cards over here!
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Nervous System Stress Responses Explained
Your nervous system uses stress responses to keep you safe in overwhelming situations, but they often run on autopilot. Over time, these patterns may quietly shape your emotions, relationships, and choices without you even realizing it.
Stress & You
Triggers activate stress & sends signals that change every part of you
Mind
The way you think & view yourself, others, and the world
Body
How your body reacts to stress & how you manage conflict
Soul
Your emotions, personality and all the things that make you unique
Spirit
How you connect with yourself, your environment, & those around you
Take the quiz to receive your free guide & discover how stress changes your mind, body, soul & spirit when activated .
Nervous System Stress Responses Explained
Meet the Team of Chaos
Why You’re Reactive, Become Defensive, & Get Misunderstood
Meet Fight: The Protector
Quick to react, strong-willed, and sometimes guarded. Your nervous system learned that power and control keep you safe...whether the threat is emotional, physical, or mental. You crave connection, but your strength can be misunderstood as defensiveness, leaving you feeling unseen even when you just want to be understood.
Why You Overthink, Stay Busy & Can’t Rest Even When You’re Exhausted
Meet Flight: The Navigator
Restlessness is your body’s safety strategy. The flight response fuels movement...running from discomfort through busyness, perfectionism, or planning. It often hides behind success, yet nothing ever feels like enough. Your nervous system believes that staying one step ahead will keep you safe from chaos or failure even when you want to rest.
Why You Shut-Down, Can’t Make Decisions, Go Numb or Feel Stuck
Meet Freeze: The Stabilizer
When escape or defense feel impossible, your body’s last line of protection is slowing everything down. While it helps you endure the unbearable, living in this state too long can leave you feeling foggy, disconnected, and emotionally numb. You may forget simple things, feel exhausted or struggle to find motivation.
Why You People-Please, Burn-Out, Avoid Conflict, & Lose Yourself
Meet Fawn: The Harmonizer
Your nervous system learned that peace equals safety. Seeking security through harmony...anticipating others’ needs, softening your tone, or masking yourself in to prevent rejection. It keeps you connected, but often at the cost of your authenticity. You may have a hard time identifying your sense of self & desires.
Your dominant stress response is only one piece of your story. Train your stress response in our game to discover how your response changes in boundaries, relationships, and life transitions - because your body activates a different response with different people and contexts.