Free Assessment

Learn the Language of Your Nervous System

Discover your primary protective response and understand why you react the way you do under stress.

Tori Gordon

Why Understanding Your Nervous System Changes Everything

Your nervous system is the operating system behind every decision you make, every relationship you navigate, and every pattern you can't seem to break. It's not about willpower. It's about wiring.

Most people spend years trying to "fix" behaviors that are actually protective responses their nervous system developed to keep them safe. The anger that pushes people away. The anxiety that keeps you moving. The shutdown that makes you disappear. The people-pleasing that erases your needs.

These aren't character flaws. They're survival strategies.

When you understand the language your nervous system speaks—fight, flight, freeze, or fawn—you stop fighting yourself and start working with your body's wisdom. You learn to recognize when you're operating from safety versus survival. You build the capacity to choose your response instead of being hijacked by it.

What You'll Discover

Your Primary Response

Identify whether your nervous system defaults to fight, flight, freeze, or fawn when you feel threatened or unsafe.

Your Secondary Pattern

Understand your backup protective strategy—what happens when your primary response doesn't work.

How It Shows Up

Recognize the specific markers, behaviors, and patterns that signal when you're in a protective state.

Regulation Strategies

Learn personalized techniques to help your nervous system return to safety and regulation.

There Are No "Good" or "Bad" Responses

This assessment doesn't measure health, wellness, or how "regulated" you are. It identifies your nervous system's protective strategies—the patterns your body learned to keep you safe.

Fight isn't "aggressive." Flight isn't "anxious." Freeze isn't "weak." Fawn isn't "codependent." These are intelligent adaptations your nervous system created in response to your lived experience.

The goal isn't to eliminate your protective responses or achieve some "perfect" regulated state. The goal is awareness—to recognize when you're operating from survival versus safety, and to expand your capacity to choose your response rather than being hijacked by it.

Your nervous system isn't broken. It's doing exactly what it was designed to do. This assessment simply helps you understand its language.

How It Works

1

Answer 12 Questions

Reflect on how you respond to stress, uncertainty, and relationships. Takes about 5 minutes.

2

Get Your Results

Receive a personalized assessment identifying your primary and secondary nervous system responses.

3

Start Regulating

Apply the specific regulation strategies designed for your nervous system configuration.

Ready to Understand Your Wiring?

This free assessment is the first step toward nervous system mastery. Discover why you react the way you do—and learn how to regulate from the inside out.