Step 1 of 3 · Beliefs Quiz + Workbook
The Beliefs Workbook
What keeps showing up for me?
Find words for a familiar feeling.
Begin wherever you recognise yourself.
Choose an entry that feels relevant to your life today and take your time with it.
The quiz and workbook are the two parts of Step 1. If you’re not sure which belief to open, start with the two-minute quiz.
Worth, love and belonging
These entries explore adequacy, acceptance, deserving good things, love, being chosen, feeling significant and finding places where you can be yourself. They are related questions, but they are not interchangeable. Being admired for your work, for example, may feel different from believing you can be loved as you are.
Needs, care and obligation
These entries explore duty, receiving, rest, anger and whose needs get considered. A genuine responsibility can exist alongside an unfair expectation of yourself. Consider what is yours to carry, what can be shared and what support is missing.
Agency, control and responsibility
These entries explore having influence, permission to choose, responsibility for other people’s feelings, preventing bad outcomes and keeping yourself under control. Your actual circumstances matter alongside the expectations you notice.
Safety and trust
These entries explore distance, reliance, wanting, judgement, the body, resources and uncertainty. Caution is sometimes appropriate. The aim is to recognise where protection fits the present situation and where a broad rule limits choices you would otherwise want to have.
Safety can mean different things here: feeling able to rely on another person, having confidence in your own judgement, or finding a way forward when life is uncertain. You may recognise one of these threads without recognising the others. Start with the entry that describes your experience most closely.
The past and what feels possible
These entries explore unresolved hurt, blame, hindsight, comparison and what feels possible now. Recognising a present pattern does not require approving of the past, forgiving someone or declaring a loss finished. You can take what happened seriously while considering what would help you now.