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.
A Companion on Your Journey
From my own journey grew something deeply personal—Spiritual Personality Typing. But this isn’t a “program” or a set of rules. It’s a way of listening to your soul’s unique voice and aligning your life with your true self. It’s born from lived experience, not theory—a mirror reflecting your sacred uniqueness.
If your soul is whispering for more, my book Unpack Your Personality and one-on-one sessions are gentle ways to explore who you truly are beneath the noise. Whenever you’re ready, I’m here to walk beside you.
Share the Message
I hope this story plants a seed of courage—to see yourself freshly and remember your timeless gifts. Share this with a friend, sister, or coworker who might need the reminder that your true self is waiting.
Dive Deeper Into the Journey
If this story speaks to even a small part of you, you’re invited to explore more of my journey and approach through these heartfelt conversations and resources:
Watch my interview on Real Conversations with Patricia, where I share my path to embracing imperfection and igniting purpose at 66:
🎧 Reinvention at 66: Nina Zapala’s JourneyExplore more inspiration through videos:
YouTube Channel HighlightsRead reflections on trusting intuition and authentic style:
How To Trust Your Intuition And Inspire Others No Matter Your Age
Live Your Legacy From AuthenticityAnd when you’re ready, my debut book Unpack Your Personality offers a gentle yet profound roadmap to your true self:
Get Unpack Your Personality here
Trusted by Those Who’ve Walked the Path
“Working with Nina helped me remove the blind spots that were holding me back,” says Judith Wilms, TEDx speaker and author. Her bespoke clarity session was the nudge she needed to stop merely living life and start creating the life of her dreams. If that resonates, a clarity session may just be what you need too. Schedule your Clarity Session
About Spiritual Personality Typing
Spiritual Personality Typing℠ shifts perspectives beyond traditional MBTI® stereotypes. Your personality type is sacred; your persona is only a mask. I invite you to see your archetype as a sacred tool—an expression of your true self.
This isn’t just a practice, it’s a lifestyle that requires daily commitment: aligning your rational mind with your soul awakens a life filled with meaning and authenticity. The freedom to live intentionally, passionately and unapologetically.
Who Is Nina Zapala?
I developed Spiritual Personality Typing during what I call my “midlife tsunami”—a transformative season that stripped away illusions and revealed profound truths. Traditional typologies only told part of the story, so I created a new paradigm that unites soul and self.
This isn’t about anti-aging—it’s about authentic aging: showing up as your truest self, unapologetically and wildly free, leaving a sacred legacy only you can bring. Every wrinkle tells a story, every silver strand carries wisdom, and every scar maps your unique journey. When we deny our true selves, the soul withers; when we embrace her, we bloom into timelessness. Your new beginning awaits!
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