How to Better Understand Yourself: 10 Insightful Journal Prompts
A Soul-Led Guide Refined Through Spiritual Personality Typing℠
Welcome to the Path of Deep Self-Awareness
If you’re here, you’re ready to transcend basic self-help. You’re seeking personal growth driven by soul truth—not surface-level quick fixes.
This post isn’t about boxing you into another personality label. Spiritual Personality Typing℠ invites you to view your personality as a divine blueprint—an activation of your truest self, not a simplification.
Because here’s the truth: this isn’t passive work. Transformation doesn’t come from scrolling—it comes from devotion. When you engage with your unique type as a spiritual practice, something clicks. Your rational mind and your soul self stop competing and start collaborating.
That’s when awakening happens. That’s when you stop performing a life… and start living one.
My Journey: Your Guide on This Path
I once faced a “life tsunami” that swept away my certainties and forced me to rethink everything. Through that experience, I discovered we are not just physical beings having a mundane existence—we are spiritual beings living a deeply human journey. Bridging that gap led me to my true calling: Spiritual Personality Typing℠. The lessons I learned inspired my book, Unpack Your Personality: Let Your Inner Guide Be Your Travel Guide, and refined the method I teach today.
At its core, my method shows you: when you listen to your soul self—the voice of your higher consciousness, connected to Divine Intelligence—it expresses its deepest desires through your personality, translating the sacred into your everyday reality.
This is a trailblazing approach. It unlocks a journey of true self-discovery, meaning, potential, and fulfillment. It’s not just a task; it is your life’s purpose. Embrace it fully—and watch your world transform.
Want a deeper dive? Explore my YouTube channel (@NinaZapalaENTP) for in-depth discussions and practices.
Start Here: A Brief Meditation & Invitation
Begin with intention:
Dear Divine, Please Show Me…
This is my favorite journal prompt—an invocation to awaken guidance and clarity.
A Few Tips to Better Understand Your Spiritual Personality Type
Here’s the cornerstone of this method—featured in Chapter 11 of my book, Unpack Your Personality:
Spiritual Personality Typing: For the 21st Century.
Understanding your functional stack is a powerful first step.
Your stack refers to the order in which you use your cognitive abilities—your unique way of acquiring and processing information, and making soul-aligned decisions.
Our personalities are multi-dimensional because we are multi-faceted, spiritual beings inhabiting a physical reality. Here’s a breakdown of the stack:
Dominant Function (your North Star):
This is your soul’s compass. When honored and balanced, it reactivates your connection with the Divine spark within. It reveals your joy, purpose, and highest expression.
When you live through this function, you begin creating a meaningful, vibrant life.Secondary Function:
This is the conscious partner to your North Star. It brings balance, insight, and stability to your path. Working in harmony with your primary function, it helps you meet life with openness and clarity.Tertiary Function:
This develops with maturity, enriching your soul-self’s perspective. It supports the secondary function, which in turn supports the North Star—creating a dynamic web of internal wisdom and evolution.Inferior Function:
Often hidden deep in the subconscious, this paradoxical trait can be challenging—but also revelatory. When you bring awareness to it, you unlock its potential for spiritual growth and renewed perspective.
Understanding your stack isn’t about labels—it’s about liberation. It’s your soul’s language for how to live a fully expressed, spirit-led life.
Are You Ready to Let Go?
Ask yourself if you’re willing to release:
Anxiety
Self-doubt
People-pleasing
Unworthiness
The False Self who:
Meets other people’s expectations at the cost of their own soul truth,
Follows trends instead of intuition,
Relinquishes personal power out of fear of being too much or not enough.
Been there? Me too.
This is the work that reclaims your sovereignty.
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
Begin with this Brief Meditation: Dear Divine Please Show Me – (My favorite journal prompt.)
10 Soul-Led Journal Prompts
Uncover Your Inner Guide with Spiritual Personality Typing℠ using these prompt. And know, these are more than just prompts—they are portals. Designed through the lens of Spiritual Personality Typing℠, these questions explore your multidimensional self: the soul, the self, and the stack of your personality.
Take your time. Let your pen become your compass. Trust what arises.
1. What activities make you lose track of time?
When are you most in flow? What feels natural and joyful to your soul?
This often reveals how your North Star shows up in your daily life.
2. What values guide your choices?
Are your values soul-chosen or socially conditioned?
Your personality’s Feeling or Thinking traits help illuminate the truth.
3. What are your innate strengths?
List them—then reflect. Are you fully owning them?
Your North Star = your spiritual superpower. Get intimate with it.
4. When do you feel most like yourself?
Think of moments when time melted away, and you came alive.
Passion, purpose, and pure presence happen when you’re living your true type.
5. What fears keep you small?
Name them. Honor them. Then… release.
Fear-based thinking shows up most in an unbalanced dominant function.
6. How have you given away power?
Name the patterns: people-pleasing? approval-seeking? risk-avoidance?
Let your soul-self take the lead—your false self can sit this one out.
7. How do you react when misunderstood?
Be honest. Do you contract, fight back, or hide?
Not everyone gets your type. And that’s exactly why the world needs you.
8. What are your long-term desires?
Dream without limits—then align your goals to match.
Your longings are not random; they’re Spirit’s whispers.
9. How do you respond to setbacks?
What’s your default reaction in tough times? What could Spirit be showing you?
Challenge means growth, especially when it triggers your inferior function.
10. How do you define success?
Reject the mainstream model. What lights you up?
True success reflects soul-alignment, not society’s noise.
Set Your Intentions, Ignite Your Soul
As you reflect, ask:
What do I truly desire?
What intentions support that desire?
Does this feel like me—or like a mask?
Here are a few examples to inspire your own:
To live a soul-expressed life full of self-trust
To be deeply playful
To build a legacy of light
To create meaningful connections
To lead a spirit-centered career
To heal and honor my personal power
To seek harmony in, and with, the world
“The soul is part of the deeper, more intuitive levels of human understanding, where simple reasoning must give way to things that are not only irrational, but also numinous and mysterious.” — Michael Meade, Awakening the Soul
In Closing: This Is Not Just a Post—This Is Your Soul’s Invitation
Understanding your Spiritual Personality Type℠ isn’t just self-development—it’s a sacred return. It’s the journey back to your inner knowing, where Divine connection, personal power, and joyful alignment are no longer dreams—they’re your daily frequency.
Make the relationship you cultivate with your personality type your top priority.
It is the deepest love story you’ll write in this lifetime.— Nina Zapala, Founder of Spiritual Personality Typing℠
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Travel A Tonic for Self-Discovery
Can you see why I staunchly believe that travel is a tonic for the soul? Travel offers a real-time opportunity to observe your personality type in action. It’s an enriching environment—a living classroom for self-discovery—that exposes you to diverse experiences. This encourages self-reflection, fosters personal growth, and provides countless opportunities to step outside your comfort zone.
This post offers a sneak peek into my book, Unpack Your Personality: Let Your Inner Guide Be Your Travel Guide. It’s part memoir (my story of self-discovery through travel), part introduction to Spiritual Personality Typing℠—a reimagining of Myers-Briggs (MBTI) through the lens of spiritual alignment—and part personalized travel guidebook. The idea is that all of these roads lead to self-discovery.
Please know that I curate these posts to be both meaningful and educational, designed to help you navigate the needs of your sacred personality type on the road, in business, and in life. If you’re interested in exploring your unique travel personality type, feel free to contact me me for a one-on-one travel session.
Only 1 in 10 Truly Know Who They Are. Be the Exception.
You’re not here to settle. You’re here to remember who you are.
Through Spiritual Personality Typing℠—my proprietary, soul-first method and the heart of the (un)brand—you’ll cut through the noise and get crystal clear on your Who and Why.
This isn’t cookie-cutter coaching. These are bespoke, one-on-one sessions designed to help you reconnect with your most authentic self—from the inside out.
We’ll uncover the patterns keeping you stuck, break self-sabotaging loops, and illuminate what actually moves you—in life and in motion.
This is radical self-awareness. Sacred strategy. Identity work for the soul-led.
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More About Spiritual Personality Typing™️
My work reframes how you see MBTI® personality typing—no more boxed-in stereotypes or cute quizzes. Your type isn’t a label. It’s sacred language. Your persona? Just a mask.
Spiritual Personality Typing℠ invites you to see your archetype as a divine blueprint—an activation of your truest self, not a simplification.
But here’s the truth: this isn’t passive work. Transformation doesn’t come from scrolling—it comes from devotion. When you engage with your type as a daily spiritual practice, something shifts. Your soul self and your rational self stop competing—and start collaborating.
That’s when awakening happens. That’s when you stop performing a life… and start living one.
Whether you’re navigating travel, relationships, your calling, or your next creative leap—you’ll stop showing up as a role, and start showing up as you.
And isn’t that what soul-led living is really about?
Want to Dive Deeper? I Got You
If this speaks to you even a little bit, check out my podcast interview on Le Vie Creative with host Krystal Kennedy
🎧 Unlock Your Soul Embrace Your Creativity
👉 Listen here.
Thank you, Krystal, for believing in me — and allowing me to share my journey 🩵
Read:
🔖 7 Simple How-To Joy Habits For Your Spiritual Personality Type, click here.
🔖How to Be Strong When Change Swirls Around You: click here for the link.
📚 Or grab a copy of my debut book: Unpack Your Personality: Let Your Inner Guide Be Your Travel Guide
Who Is Nina Zapala?
Hey, I’m Nina Zapala—creator of Spiritual Personality Typing℠, a new way to connect your mind and spirit so you can actually show up as your real self. My mission? Plant seeds for a fresh kind of thinking—where self-expression isn’t just allowed, it’s unstoppable.
I’m also the mind behind the (un)Brand: a soul-first, zero-cookie-cutter approach for founders who are done with branding clichés and performance games. No more approval-chasing. No more shrinking to fit in. The (un)Brand helps you show up fully—characteristically authentic, unapologetic, and 100% you.
With decades in branding, community, and cause marketing (and 300+ articles to prove it), I help women take back their identity and purpose. My book, Unpack Your Personality Let Your Inner Guide Be Your Travel Guide., is your invite to trust your gut and journey inward.
Let’s be real—someone rocks blue hair or pitches a bold idea, and most people roll their eyes or back away. My work? Burns old scripts. Instead we light up what makes you exquisitely different.
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