Hey, it's Michelle here. Quick question before we jump into today's episode. Do you clean when you're

stressed? Do you hate being late? Are you the overachiever who's always busy and always responsible

and always on top of it? Would you describe yourself as a rule follower? And when other people

don't follow the rules, it like genuinely bothers you.

Maybe you have really high standards, both for yourself and for everyone around you.

You probably tend to be a perfectionist and slowing down or being spontaneous or just going

with the flow, letting things be less than perfect. Maybe that

doesn't come so easily to you. And maybe you've always thought, like, hey, that's just how I am, right?

I'm just type A. I'm just a go-getter. But here's what's actually going on. When you were a child and something overwhelmed your nervous system,

your body adapted and your nervous system built a defense against that overwhelm.

And over time, that defense became a habit and then that habit became a pattern.

And now what we think of as our personality is so often just that old

pattern running the show. So there are five different capacity patterns. And they're not really

personality types like the Enneagram or the Myers-Briggs, but instead they describe the

specific safety strategy that your nervous system defaults to when you're

feeling stressed, overwhelmed, or maxed out when you're at capacity. So they don't describe

who you are in as much as they describe what's actually blocking who you are. And once you know your

pattern, you can actually do something about it.

If you haven't yet, I would invite you to go take my free, what's your capacity pattern quiz?

When you get your quiz results, you'll be invited to listen to a free private podcast all about

your capacity pattern. The quiz takes just a couple minutes.

The link is in the show notes,

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