The 7 Primal Wounds™ are the deep, early emotional imprints that shape how you think, feel, and react in adulthood. These wounds—Insignificant, Inadequate, Incapable, Outsider, Damaged, Undeserving, and Powerless—form the subconscious patterns that drive your triggers, choices, and relationships.

Start with the free quiz (button above). It’s based on doctoral research and uses your natural thought patterns, reactions, and “pre-activation” phrases to identify which wound is running the show.

Although all of them may feel relatable at times, most people have a predominant wound that activates in certain circumstances—relationships, work, conflict, or stress. The quiz helps you discover the wound that shapes the majority of your patterns.

Not exactly. A primal wound isn’t always caused by a single traumatic event. It’s often a repeated emotional experience that becomes a core belief about yourself and the world. You can have a primal wound even if you had a “normal” or even loving upbringing.

We don’t think you’re broken! Primal Wounds can definitely be rewired. Awareness is the first step. Our PRIMAL Reset System™ teaches you how to rewire the wound into a strength—your Superpower—using neuroscience-backed strategies, emotional regulation tools, and mindset shifts.

Your wound shapes your communication patterns, attachment style, triggers, defensiveness, fears, and the partners you tend to choose. When you understand your wound, you can finally stop repeating the same relationship cycle.

Your Primal Wound acts like a subconscious filter—shaping the way you interpret situations and make choices, often without you realizing it. Instead of responding to what’s actually happening, you respond to what your wound fears might happen. This can lead to overthinking, avoidance, impulsivity, people-pleasing, staying in unhealthy situations, or second-guessing yourself.

When you identify your wound, you can finally separate your intuition from your wound’s projection, allowing you to make calm, confident, grounded decisions rather than survival-based ones.

The complete system—including the quiz, definitions, examples, patterns, and PRIMAL Reset tools—will be available in January. The book on the framework releases March 31, 2026. Get on the AIRMAIL list for announcements.

It’s the step-by-step process used to help people identify their wound, understand how it shows up in their life, regulate their nervous system, and rewrite the subconscious belief into a Superpower. It’s the same system Dr. Michaela uses with her clients and is shared in detail in the upcoming book.

Anyone who feels stuck, misunderstood, reactive, overlooked, insecure, anxious in relationships, or trapped in repeated emotional patterns. The wounds explain why—and the PRIMAL Reset explains what to do about it.

Your Primal Wound acts like a subconscious filter—shaping the way you interpret situations and make choices, often without you realizing it. Instead of responding to what’s actually happening, you respond to what your wound fears might happen. This can lead to overthinking, avoidance, impulsivity, people-pleasing, staying in unhealthy situations, or second-guessing yourself.

When you identify your wound, you can finally separate your intuition from your wound’s projection, allowing you to make calm, confident, grounded decisions rather than survival-based ones.

You don’t have to wait. If you’re ready to work through your Primal Wound and begin the PRIMAL Reset process right away, you can sign up for coaching below and get personalized guidance tailored to your patterns, triggers, and goals. Coaching gives you real-time support, tools you can apply immediately, and a clear path toward turning your wound