Understand the pattern underneath the reaction. You might understand your past, know what needs to change, and still find yourself overthinking, people-pleasing, shutting down, overexplaining, bracing, controlling, or reacting before your mind can catch up.
 
Survival Patterns: The loop your body repeats helps you understand why. This grounded, practical guide explores the protective loops underneath the behaviors and emotional responses you may have spent years trying to fix. Through nervous system education, lived experience, relatable examples, and the Survival Pattern Guide, Dr. Kristen Gross helps you recognize what your body learned to do to protect you and how those patterns may still be shaping the way you think, react, work, rest, love, and see yourself.
 
Inside, you'll learn how to:
Recognize the survival patterns operating in the background of your life
Understand why certain reactions feel automatic
Separate protection from personality
Respond to yourself with more clarity and less criticism
 
Direct website orders include a complimentary pocket stone.
Your stone is included as a tangible reminder to carry the message of the book into real life. Keep it in your pocket, on your desk, or beside your bed as a cue to pause and remember:
My reaction has context.
My body has a reason.
I don't have to make myself the enemy while I figure it out.
 
The stone isn't there to do the work for you. It's a personal piece of MissFit, chosen to help bring what you're learning off the page and into the moments when an old pattern begins to take over.
 
Get your copy, receive your pocket stone, and start understanding the patterns that have been shaping your life from behind the scenes.