Lauren Carpenter Wellness
A Polyvagal-informed intake tool to map your autonomic baseline and guide our work together.
Before we explore your nervous system patterns, share a little context. There are no right answers — only honest ones.
Your autonomic nervous system is always scanning for safety. How it learned to respond — to protect you, to keep you moving, or to shut things down — is shaped by your entire history.
This assessment draws on Polyvagal Theory (Dr. Stephen Porges) and the Polyvagal Ladder framework (Dr. Deb Dana) to help us understand your current baseline, not to diagnose or label you.
Your results will be shared with Lauren to support your coaching work.
This is a map, not a verdict. Your nervous system learned to respond this way for good reasons. Together, we'll build new pathways — with curiosity, not judgment.
Capacity for calm presence, genuine connection, and flexible response to challenge.
Nervous system in mobilization mode — fight, flight, urgency, hypervigilance, or chronic activation.
Nervous system in conservation or shutdown — flatness, numbness, disconnection, or collapse.
"Regulation is not a destination. It is a practice of returning."
— Informed by Deb Dana, Anchored