What's Your Stress Response?
Discover whether you tend to Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn when facing stressful situations. Answer honestly for the most accurate results.
🕐 Takes about 3 minutes
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Your Primary Response:
Fight
Your Response Breakdown
🔥 Fight 0%
🏃 Flight 0%
🧊 Freeze 0%
🤝 Fawn 0%
🔥 Fight Response Tips
- • Practice pausing before reacting to give yourself time to assess
- • Channel your energy into constructive problem-solving
- • Learn to recognize when backing down is strategic, not weakness
- • Try physical exercise to release built-up tension healthily
🏃 Flight Response Tips
- • Practice sitting with discomfort in small doses
- • Set boundaries instead of completely avoiding situations
- • Identify what specific triggers make you want to flee
- • Build a toolkit of grounding techniques for when you can't leave
🧊 Freeze Response Tips
- • Practice grounding exercises like the 5-4-3-2-1 technique
- • Give yourself permission to take time before responding
- • Work on reconnecting with your body through gentle movement
- • Prepare responses in advance for predictable stressful situations
🤝 Fawn Response Tips
- • Practice saying no in low-stakes situations first
- • Check in with your own needs before attending to others
- • Recognize that setting boundaries is not selfish or mean
- • Work on identifying what YOU actually want in situations