The Hidden Spiritual Personality Traits That Unlock Your New Beginning
Forget endless analysis and overthinking. The most brilliant decisions you’ll ever make won’t come from your brain, but from your gut. This blog challenges everything you thought you knew about problem-solving and decision-making, revealing how to harness your innate intuitive intelligence to navigate life with unparalleled clarity and achieve extraordinary results.”
This is why I want to share a liberating lesson that helped me begin again. Old-school personality typing only tells half the story. Without acknowledging the spiritual dimension of who you are—your Divine design, responsive intuition or call it your “inner genius”—life feels limited, ego-led, and disconnected from your highest calling.
But hidden within your traits are sacred blueprints. They aren’t random. They are the seeds of your new beginning.
The soul doesn’t reinvent—it reveals. New beginnings are never outside of you; they’re written into your Divine design.
Why New Beginnings Feel Unreachable
Maybe you’ve felt that too—that gnawing feeling that the life you’ve built isn’t your own. It’s out of alignment with the truth of who you really are.
My out of alignment moment came crashing onto the shores of my life in a tsunami wave that changed everything. 🌊
I wasn’t thinking of new beginnings. I was jus trying to survive. Everything I knew changed and I wondered how the hell did this happen.
Finally I realized, for decades, I had lived by external codes: my parents’ beliefs, business paradigms, even religious constructs. I played my part, chased accolades and awards, got the corner office, the six figures… But inside I was exhausted. No matter how much I achieved, it was never enough.
At some point, these questions creep in:
Who am I? Why am I here? How do I begin again when nothing seems to fit?
For me, the tsunami forced an unraveling. I sat on coaches’ couches, signed up for masterminds, tried ALL the fixes. Nothing worked. I still felt lost—adrift and unmoored from myself.
Sound familiar?
Enter Spiritual Personality Typing℠
Everything began to change when I started working with Dr. Nix, a spiritual psychologist. I asked: “What’s wrong with me? I keep repeating the same sabotaging behaviors, and can’t move forward”
She gently smiled and said: “There’s nothing wrong with, Nina, you’ve just need to remember, the raw and real you, not societies portrait of you”
It was a lightbulb moment. ✨
I realized that what I was missing was not discipline, more striving, or outside validation—it was soul… the Divinely inspired me! My intuition set free!
Psychology explained my behaviors, but it didn’t explain the unseen genius spark within me (and within you).
That realization birthed what I now call Spiritual Personality Typing℠—a union of Myers-Briggs psychology with spiritual wisdom. A system that honors both your logical mind and your Divine design. Because we are not here to escape the human experience—we are here to evolve through it.
Your personality traits aren’t random quirks—they are sacred blueprints, chosen by your soul to evolve in this lifetime.
Your Hidden Traits … Your Soul’s Design in Disguise
Here’s a revolutionary truth I discovered: we choose our personality type before we arrive in this lifetime.🔮
Each trait we carry is purposeful. Each holds an energetic frequency impacting how we perceive, act, and evolve. Your personality is not contained in a box or limited—it’s the very map your soul uses to grow in this lifetime.
That’s why I reframed the classic “functional stack” into a spiritually evolved stack. Here’s what it looks like:
🌟 North Star (Dominant): Your guiding light, tied to your inner genius. Everything else revolves around this sacred trait. Ignore it, and you dim your brightest light.
🤝 Harmonious (Auxiliary): The balancing trait—your stabilizer. When your dominant runs wild, this is what brings you back to center.
🌱 Emerging (Tertiary): Often hidden until midlife, this trait wakes up later and reshapes how you see yourself. It’s why many people believe their type “changed.” In truth, it’s simply expanding.
⚡ Opposing (Inferior): The challenger, often the hardest to accept. It can sabotage you—or expand you. It’s the shadow that sharpens the brilliance of your North Star.
For me, my North Star is Extraverted Intuition. Innovation, possibility, seeing patterns others can’t—that’s my genius. But my Opposing trait is Introverted Sensing, obsessed with tradition, safety, and “what was.” For years, it sabotaged me.
Now? I see it as sacred tension. History grounds my innovation. The past becomes the soil for new ideas. Divine Intelligence wastes nothing, not even our inner conflicts.
Personality Traits From a Traditional and Spiritual POV
The traditional Myers-Briggs functional stack alongside its soulful reinterpretation through Spiritual Personality Typing, offering heartfelt, clear definitions that illuminate each trait from both a grounded and spiritual perspective.
| Traditional MBTI Functional Stack Trait | Definition (Traditional) | Spiritual Personality Trait (Soul’s Design) | Definition (Spiritual/Nina Zapala) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dominant | Primary and strongest trait; defines core type, used most often, “signature strength.” | North Star | Guiding light tied to inner genius; center of soul’s design—ignoring it dims authentic energy. |
| Auxiliary | Secondary trait that supports the dominant function, brings balance, “co-pilot” or sidekick. | Harmonious | Balancing trait, stabilizes when dominant overpowers; helps restore equilibrium, reconnect to self. |
| Tertiary | Less conscious/aware, emerges more with maturity, often overlooked earlier in life. | Emerging | Often hidden until midlife, comes forward to expand awareness; may feel like the type “changed,” but is evolving. |
| Inferior | Least used, most underdeveloped, source of challenge or stress, but can promote growth/self-awareness | Opposing | The challenger/shadow, may sabotage or provoke growth—sharpens brilliance of North Star through adversity. |
How Hidden Spiritual Personality Traits Unlock New Beginnings
Here’s the paradox:
Traditional typing is logical, and it’s be reimagined through society over the decades for big business.
Spiritual Personality Typing helps you reveal your soul’s blueprint, which is characteristically authentic, founded on your true self. It taps into your Divine mind, your eternal soul that is without ego, shadows, and conditional teachings of society.
When you see yourself this way, new beginnings stop being something you chase outside yourself. You realize they’re already within you, hidden in plain sight—coded into your traits, waiting to be remembered.
Personality typing doesn’t put you in a box; it frees you to finally see the genius spark you’ve carried all along
A Soulful Step Forward (Journal Prompts)
If you want to begin again—not by recycling old roles, but by remembering your true self—start here:
Create a True Self Journal. Note your dominant, auxiliary, tertiary, and inferior traits. Reflect on them from both a traditional and spiritual perspective.
Spot inherited patterns. Where are you still living by someone else’s story (parents, culture, religion)? Circle what no longer aligns.
Ask yourself: Where has my inner genius been trying to shine… and where have I ignored it?
These reflections won’t fix everything overnight. But they will start to anchor you in the truth: you were never broken—you were only disconnected from your design.
Final Thoughts
Here’s what I’ve come to know: Your new beginning won’t be found by pushing harder, hustling faster, or striving for more. It begins by remembering what’s already yours.
Because the soul doesn’t reinvent itself.
The soul reveals itself.
If this resonates with you, my debut book Unpack Your Personality: Let Your Inner Guide Be Your Travel Guide expands these teachings step by step. It’s the perfect next step if you’re ready to embody your sacred personality type and finally live in alignment with your truest self.
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Travel A Tonic for Self-Discovery
In the midst of my tsunami, I birthed a new vision of travel: intentional journeys guided not by reviews or trends but by soul itself. My book, Unpack Your Personality: Let Your Inner Guide Be Your Travel Guide, introduces an evolutionary way of traveling — experiential, meaningful, beyond bucketlists. You discover not just the destination, but the deeper destination within yourself. Travel is no longer an escape. It’s expansion.
My debut book is part memoir (my story of self-discovery through travel), an introduction to Spiritual Personality Typing℠—(an evolutionary personality paradigm a reimagining of Myers-Briggs) through the lens of spiritual alignment—and a personalized travel guidebook… all these roads lead to self-discovery.
If you’re interested in exploring your unique travel personality type, feel free to contact me me for a one-on-one travel session.
Dive Deeper? I Got You
If this speaks to you even a little bit, check out my podcast interview Reinvention Rebels with host Wendy Battles
🎧 Reinvention at 66: Nina Zapala’s Journey to Embrace Imperfection and Ignite Her Purpose
👉 Listen here.
Thank you, Wendy, for believing in my mission — even before I fully believed in it myself. 🩵
Additional Resources:
👀 Learn more on topic on my YouTube Channel. Click here.
🔖 The Souls Role In Rediscovering You: click here for the link.
🔖 Be Grateful For Your Personality Type: read it here.
📚 Or grab a copy of my debut book: Unpack Your Personality: Let Your Inner Guide Be Your Travel Guide
A Time For New Beginnings
Are you ready to embark on the road less traveled and join the rare 10% who truly know themselves? If you’re seeking more, I offer bespoke one-on-one sessions designed to help you discover yourself from the inside out. This is pure self-awareness—an opportunity to connect with your authentic self. A time for new beginnings.
Together, we’ll shine a light on self-sabotaging behaviors and break negative cycles. We’ll also explore what brings you the greatest joy, both in daily life and on your travels.
Ready to start your journey? Let’s connect and uncover the unique path meant just for you. Click here to schedule a 1:1 clarity call.
About Spiritual Personality Typing
My goal is to shift perspectives around MBTI® personality typing—to break free from stereotypes and oversimplifications. Remember, your personality type is sacred. Your persona is just a mask.
It’s my intention that you begin to see your archetype as a sacred tool—an expression of your true self.
Of course, good things in life come to those who do the work. Take responsibility and make personality typing, infused with spiritual understanding, a daily practice. You’ll soon realize that your rational self and your soul self rely on each other to ignite a soulful meaningful life. When you fully embrace this concept, a profound awakening occurs. It moves you closer to your truth, liberating you from a purposeless existence.
You’ll be ready for any occasion, situation, or event—whether it’s travel, relationships, career, passion, or purpose. Ahh, living a meaningful life—isn’t that what we all desire?
Who Is Nina Zapala?
I published a book and founded Spiritual Personality Typing℠ during what I call my midlife tsunami — a season that shook every illusion and surfaced my deepest truths. Out of loss and upheaval, I awakened to what truly matters: the union of psychology and spirituality, the marriage between soul and self, the path to becoming characteristically authentic.
Old-school typology only tells half the story. Without soul, life becomes lifeless; we bow to ego, chasing material illusions. But with Spiritual Personality Typing, you remember who you truly are, why you came here, and how you are meant to serve. For women 60+, this is not about ‘anti-aging.’ It is about full-on authentic aging — walking courageously, unapologetically yourself, wildly free, while bringing forth your sacred legacy
Here’s what I now know: “Every wrinkle holds a story, every scar a sacred map. When we deny our authentic self, our soul withers; when we embrace her, we bloom into timelessness; unapologetic, authentic.
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