The directory
Every Programme Type is two things at once: the wound it grew from, and the mask it built to cope. Six masks, four wounds. Find yours on the map.
The map
Earns worth by performing.
Earns belonging by being needed.
Stays safe by being agreeable and correct.
Survives by needing no one.
Wins the room to be safe in it.
Stays unseen to stay safe.
How to read it
Down the side, the six masks: the strategy you built to get through. Across the top, the four wounds: what your childhood was short on. Where your mask meets your wound is your type. The map shows the logic. The assessment finds your exact place on it.
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If you build it strong enough, nothing can get in.
Connection · AchieverLove was a wage, and you have been working for it ever since.
Self · AchieverYou drove hard to get out, and you have never stopped running.
Aliveness · AchieverYou keep moving because stopping makes the deadness audible.
Safety · CaretakerYou manage the room so the storm never lands on you.
Connection · CaretakerYou make yourself indispensable so no one can leave.
Self · CaretakerYou disappear into other people's needs and call it love.
Aliveness · CaretakerYou carry what no one asked you to, and resent it in silence.
Safety · Good OneYou walk lightly so nothing reacts to you.
Connection · Good OneYou traded yourself for approval, and now no one quite knows you.
Self · Good OneYou control yourself first, so no one else has to.
Aliveness · Good OneYou do what is required, and feel whatever is left over.
Safety · Self-ReliantYou trust only yourself, and you watch every exit.
Connection · Self-ReliantYou need no one, on purpose, and it aches under the rule.
Self · Self-ReliantYou cannot be reached, and you wear it as freedom.
Aliveness · Self-ReliantYou feel nothing on the surface, and the depth is locked.
Safety · PerformerYou read the tension and break it before it breaks you.
Connection · PerformerYou become loved on contact, and only you know it is a performance.
Self · PerformerYou become whoever is needed and lose the thread of who you are.
Aliveness · PerformerYou keep the lights on for everyone, and sit in the dark alone.
Safety · WithdrawerYou disappear in plain sight, present and untraceable.
Connection · WithdrawerYou leave before you can be left.
Self · WithdrawerYou live behind a door, and the door is the relationship.
Aliveness · WithdrawerYou move through life half-here, waiting for it to start.
The edge case
No single wound took hold. The ground was steady enough.
No root dominated. The home, whatever its faults, gave you enough steadiness that you never had to build a survival self around a wound.
You meet life roughly as it comes. You can be close without managing it, achieve without needing it, and rest without guilt. You have habits like anyone, but none of them runs you.
Not everyone is wounded, and a system honest enough to say so is one worth trusting. This is the lighter imprint, and it is still worth seeing, because knowing what steady felt like tells you what you are building toward.
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