What’s Your Anxiety Animal Archetype?
Your nervous system is sounding an alarm.
Your anxiety has a survival pattern — and a very specific animal archetype.
High-achieving women like you tend to express stress in one of three ways... Each one maps to a nervous system pattern that’s been quietly running the show since childhood. That pattern has a name and an animal.
Answer 8 quick questions honestly. Each answer reveals a little more about the pattern running behind the scene.
You will receive your full Anxiety Animal Archeytpe result plus a FREE hypnosis audio specifically designed for your archetype.
When your alarm goes off, your nervous system...
When the day is finally "done," your evenings look like...
When your head hits the pillow, your brain...
When you make a mistake, your inner critic...
When someone asks for your help and you’re already stretched thin...
When you have a big project to start, you..
When it comes to delegating or asking for help...
Which of these tend to show up in your daily life? Select all that apply.
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Your Anxiety Animal Archetype: SQUIRREL
You are quick, capable, and always three steps ahead. Like a squirrel preparing for winter, your mind is constantly scanning, sorting, and storing. You notice the details others miss and mentally file them “just in case.” It’s not “worry”, exactly. It’s more “readiness”. And it’s exhausting.
🌰 Your Superpower and Your Shadow
You are the person everyone relies on because you show up prepared, every single time. That dependability is a genuine gift. But your nervous system doesn’t know the difference between “prepared” and “safe”, so it stays on high alert even when there’s nothing left to prepare for.
🐿️ Your Inner Critic
She sets the bar impossibly high and moves it the moment you get close. Your worth feels closely tied to how much you can carry, how well you manage it, and whether anyone notices a crack. One slip and she’s there with a three-hour podcast episode about everything you should have done differently.
☀️ Your Version of Rest
Even watching TV or having dinner with friends, your mind is running a quiet background program → checking, planning, reviewing. True stillness feels almost wrong, like you’re forgetting something important. You’re not. You’ve just never really been given permission to stop.
🌿 Your Body’s Signals
Tension headaches. A stomach that’s often in a knot. Tight shoulders you find yourself rolling at your desk. Fatigue that coffee doesn’t fix. These are your Squirrel’s way of asking you to slow down.
No wonder your inner squirrel is tired. She has been gathering, preparing, and running on high alert for a very long time.
Next Steps:
Here is your permission to put down the acorns for 10 minutes. Your complimentary hypnosis audio is a gentle reset designed specifically for your busy, brilliant mind. A few important notes:
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Do not listen to this audio while driving.
Hypnosis tracks are most effective when listened to with headphones.
You may find it helpful to keep a journal and pen nearby to capture any insights, reflections, or responses to the guided questions.
Change often happens subtly at first. Notice even small shifts in your awareness, perspective, or behavior.
▶ Listen to your free Squirrel hypnosis audio → Audio link
I'd love to hear about your experience. Please email me at patty@progresshypnosis.com and share any insights, shifts, questions, or reflections that come up for you.
Ready to go deeper?
This audio is the first breath of relief. But if you’re ready to understand where your Squirrel pattern came from - and finally release it at the root, not just manage it on the surface - hypnotherapy was built for exactly this.
In highly personalized sessions, you'll receive support that reflects your unique experiences, challenges, and goals. As a result, you will move from restless nights and relentless self-criticism to genuine self-trust, confident decision-making, and a deep sense of inner certainty that isn't dependent on outside validation.
▶ Learn more about working with Patty → [link]
Your Anxiety Animal Archetype: LIONESS
Your Anxiety Spirit Animal is: The Lioness 🦱
You are powerful, focused, and built to go after what you want. Like a lioness in the wild, you don’t chase everything. You choose your targets carefully, bring your full strength, and you almost always succeed. Your excellence isn’t luck. It’s instinct, effort, and an unwillingness to accept less than your best.
👑 Your Superpower and Your Shadow
You know which battles matter and you show up fully for them. You can mostly let the small things go. But when something truly matters to you, your standards are exacting, and anything short of them activates a familiar voice. The Lioness doesn’t tolerate failure easily, especially her own.
🦁 Your Inner Critic
She doesn’t roar constantly, but when she does, it lands hard. She tends to appear right after a stumble, and for a Lioness, stumbling feels deeply out of character. You’ve learned to recover. But the critic still gets her moment, and she’s louder than anyone else in the room.
🌙 Your Version of Rest
A Lioness knows how to be still. She can lie in the sun and recharge. But even in stillness, part of her is watching the horizon, already planning the next move. Your challenge isn’t giving yourself permission to rest. It’s learning to rest all the way, not always with one eye open.
🌿 Your Body’s Signals
Lower back tension. A jaw that’s tighter than you realize. Sleep that comes easily some nights and evades you on others — usually before something important. Your body holds the weight of your standards even when your mind is coping fine.
You have been carrying the pride for a long time. Even a lioness wasn't meant to be on the hunt all day.
Next Steps
Your complimentary hypnosis audio is a 10-minute retreat designed specifically to help the Lioness release the pressure you carry so quietly, and return to yourself with your full power intact.
I recommend you listen to your hypnosis audio daily for 5-7 days taking note of any shifts in your energy or thinking. A few important notes:
-
Do not listen to this audio while driving.
Hypnosis tracks are most effective when listened to with headphones.
You may find it helpful to keep a journal and pen nearby to capture any insights, reflections, or responses to the guided questions.
Change often happens subtly at first. Notice even small shifts in your awareness, perspective, or behavior.
▶ Listen to your free Lioness hypnosis audio → audio link
I'd love to hear about your experience. Please email me at patty@progresshypnosis.com and share any insights, shifts, questions, or reflections that come up for you.
Ready to go deeper?
This audio is the first breath of relief. If you’re ready to understand where your Lioness pattern came from - and finally release it at the root, not just manage it on the surface - hypnotherapy was built for exactly this.
In highly personalized sessions, you'll receive support that reflects your unique experiences, challenges, and goals. As a result, you will move from restless nights and relentless self-criticism to genuine self-trust, confident decision-making, and a deep sense of inner certainty that isn't dependent on outside validation.
▶ Learn more about working with Patty → [link]
Your Anxiety Animal Archetype: SWAN
From the outside, you are the picture of grace. You move through the world with elegance and intention. You appear calm, composed, seemingly unruffled by whatever life brings. People look at you and wonder how you do it all so effortlessly. What they don’t see is you tirelessly paddling beneath the surface.
🪴 Your Superpower and Your Shadow
You have built something beautiful - boundaries, routines, and a life that reflects your values. You protect what matters to you fiercely, even when you do it quietly. But beneath the serene exterior, you are paddling constantly, managing the work, the relationships, and the invisible load. It catches up with you in ways that surprise even you.
🦢Your Inner Critic
She tends to appear in private, when no one is watching. She questions whether you’re really as capable as you seem, or whether the composure you show the world is something you’ve been performing for so long you’ve forgotten what it feels like to just be. She is the gap between how you look and how you feel.
🌙 Your Version of Rest
Real rest for a Swan means coming back to herself. Not just stopping activity, but letting your body unclench and her mind go genuinely quiet. You don’t need more productivity hacks or a better morning routine. You need stillness that goes all the way down.
🌿 Your Body’s Signals
A chest that feels slightly tight when the week is full. Shoulders that creep up toward your ears by Thursday. GI tension that flares when things feel out of control. Your body knows the difference between gliding and grinding, even when your face doesn’t show it.
Even the most graceful creatures need space to stop performing and simply float.
Next Steps
Your complimentary hypnosis audio was created for the Swan. This is a 10-minute return to peace and stillness, so you can meet the world again from your center rather than your surface.
A few important notes:
-
Do not listen to this audio while driving.
Hypnosis tracks are most effective when listened to with headphones.
You may find it helpful to keep a journal and pen nearby to capture any insights, reflections, or responses to the guided questions.
Change often happens subtly at first. Notice even small shifts in your awareness, perspective, or behavior.
Listen to your free Swan hypnosis audio→ audio link
Ready to go deeper?
This audio is the first breath of relief. If you’re ready to understand where your Lioness pattern came from - and finally release it at the root, not just manage it on the surface - hypnotherapy was built for exactly this.
In highly personalized sessions, you'll receive support that reflects your unique experiences, challenges, and goals. As a result, you will move from restless nights and relentless self-criticism to genuine self-trust, confident decision-making, and a deep sense of inner certainty that isn't dependent on outside validation.
▶ Learn more about working with Patty → [link]
