Trauma Response Quiz

What is a trauma response?

A trauma response is a pattern your body learned to keep you safe. It runs faster than thought. Long after the danger has passed, the body can keep reaching for the same response in traffic, in meetings and in love. You did not cause what happened to you, and your body did exactly what it needed to do.

The four trauma responses

• Fight. Fight is the response that meets threat with force. Your body learned that the way to be safe was to be bigger than the danger: to push back, take control, win.
• Flight. Flight is the response that meets threat with motion. Your body learned that the way to be safe was to get away: to stay busy, stay ahead, never stop long enough to be caught.
• Freeze. Freeze is the response that meets threat with stillness. Your body learned that when you could not fight and could not leave, the way to be safe was to go quiet: to numb out, go blank, wait for it to pass.
• Fawn. Fawn is the response that meets threat by pleasing. Your body learned that the way to be safe was to keep the other person happy: to read their mood, agree, give, and need nothing.

How this quiz works

You answer eight questions, one at a time, at your own pace. Your full result appears on the page, with no email required. It names your first response, what it protects, what it costs when it stays on, the natural state that returns and a two-minute somatic practice. A somatic reset is on the page at every step if anything feels heavy.

After your result

The chakra quiz finds the energy center asking for your attention. Read how to practice nervous system regulation and the complete path back to delight.