Where Are You in Your Revival?

This brief assessment will help you find yourself in the midst of major transition.

Radical change disrupts more than plans. It disrupts orientation.

This assessment helps you recognize where you actually are in your revival process. Not where you wish you were, or think you ‘should’ be.

Many of these responses highlight common ways people experience big transition. None are wrong. They simply reflect different phases of adaptation.

There are no right answers. Just those that feel right to you! Choose what’s most true in your lived experience now so you can recognize your revival phase, and take your best next step into your future.

What You'll Discover

Complete the following 7 questions to…

➤ Recognize your current phase in the revival journey

➤ Understand what work is appropriate for where you are now

➤ Receive a personalized activity to support your next step

➤ Learn about the Revival Tree framework—nature’s guide to renewal

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1. When Something Unexpected Happens • My honest response to disruption right now is:

I react quickly or go numb — there’s no real space to pause.

I slow things down and try to make everything smaller and simpler.

I can feel the disruption without being swept away — it moves through me.

I stay steady and get curious about what might be emerging.

I absorb what’s new while staying oriented to what I’m building.

I stay in the long view — disruption doesn’t threaten my center.

2. The Tone in My Body • If I scan my body right now, the overall feeling is:

Agitated, braced, or chaotic — my system feels unstable.

Heavy or depleted — I’m conserving energy to stay steady.

Grounded and quiet — I can rest in myself.

Energized with curiosity — something feels like it’s coming online.

Directed and solid — my energy has somewhere clear to go.

Rhythmic and sustainable — my body and work feel in the same current.

3. What Drives My Actions • When I’m honest about why I’m doing what I’m doing:

Staying busy helps me avoid what I’d rather not feel.

I’m focused on staying steady and preventing overwhelm.

I make sure I feel internally settled before I act.

I’m experimenting — trying small moves to see what resonates.

I’m acting from a grounded sense of what genuinely matters now.

What I do and what I care about are essentially the same thing.

4. How I Hold Uncertainty • When I don't know what comes next:

I increase activity — staying busy gives me a sense of control.

I reduce everything and wait until I feel safer.

I can sit in not-knowing without needing to fix it.

I get interested — uncertainty may open into something new.

I stay committed to my direction while letting details emerge.

Uncertainty is part of life — it doesn’t disturb my center.

5. After I’ve Been Activated • Once I’ve been emotionally or physically pushed:

I stay wound up or crash — then keep going because I have to.

I need real quiet time to settle before I can function well.

I can feel intensity without collapsing, though returning to calm takes effort.

I return to balance fairly naturally.

I absorb activation without losing stability or momentum.

I move through intensity and back into rhythm without strain.

6. Where My Energy Is Going • Most of my energy right now goes toward:

Handling what keeps landing on me — survival feels primary.

Protecting and conserving — keeping my world small and manageable.

Turning inward — reconnecting with what I feel and need.

Testing small moves toward what’s beginning to interest me.

Investing deliberately in one clear direction.

Bringing meaningful work into the world in a sustainable way.

7. My Own Needs • When I turn toward my own needs:

I can’t really see them — survival feels more urgent.

My main need is to fully land in a stable place.

I’m beginning to sense my needs in my body.

I’m experimenting with honoring small needs and noticing what happens.

I organize my time and energy around what truly matters to me.

My needs and my contribution feel aligned.

8. In Close Relationships • In important relationships right now:

I feel stretched thin or responsible for holding things together.

I’m selective about contact to preserve steadiness.

I can engage without losing myself.

I’m noticing what energizes me in connection and what doesn’t.

I’m cultivating relationships aligned with my direction.

I give from fullness — relationships and purpose reinforce each other.

9. My Current Pace • The pace I’m moving at feels:

Driven by circumstance — frantic or frozen.

Deliberately slowed and contained.

Measured and steady.

Picking up slightly — something is pulling me forward.

Building momentum toward a chosen direction.

Self-regulating — the pace comes from the work, not pressure.

10. When I Sit Still • When I sit quietly without distraction:

It feels unbearable or completely numb.

It takes effort to settle — I avoid it when I can.

I can rest into it — quiet feels okay.

Inspiration or desire begins to surface.

I feel grounded and focused — the quiet clarifies what I’m building.

I feel rooted and at home in myself and my place.

11. Creative Expression • When it comes to making or building something right now:

I feel completely creatively offline.

I have little impulse or energy to create.

I can appreciate creativity but feel hesitant to express my own.

I’m starting to feel creative impulses again.

I’m actively creating in ways that connect to my direction.

Creating and contributing feel like the same act.

12. Overall System State • If I’m completely honest, my system feels:

Actively destabilized and subject to outside forces.

Focused on settling and stabilizing.

Stable and increasingly open.

Feeling a pull toward what’s next.

Organized around a chosen direction with real momentum.

Generative — something meaningful is ripening.

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Where Are You in Your Revival?

This brief assessment will help you find yourself in the midst of major transition.

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