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How are you going quiet in your life?
You’re respected everywhere but home. This short, research-based assessment shows you how the quiet is showing up — across the four patterns of self-silencing, drawn from the published work of Dr. Dana Jack.
16 statements · about three minutes · there are no right answers.
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Enter your email and I’ll show you your profile — your score across all four dimensions of self-silencing, what each one means, and where it tends to lead.
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Your self-silencing profile
Your four dimensions
What this measures
Self-silencing describes the habit of suppressing your own thoughts, needs, and feelings to protect a close relationship. It is a learned, often early adaptation — a way of staying safe and connected — not a flaw or a weakness.
The research is consistent: sustained self-silencing is linked to depression, lowered self-esteem, internalized anger, and a gradual loss of one’s own sense of self. Naming it is the first step in reversing it. Based on the self-silencing framework of Dr. Dana Crowley Jack.
This assessment is a structured self-reflection, not a clinical diagnosis. If your results resonate and you have been struggling with your mood, consider speaking with a qualified mental-health professional.
These patterns are learned — and what was learned can be worked with, with the right kind of support.
If you’d like to do something about what you’re seeing here, You Do You, I’ll Do Me is my 12-week clinical program for women who’ve gone quiet and want to find their way back to themselves.
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