What Happens When Your Personality Type Isn’t Soul-Centered?

You know that unsettled feeling… that restlessness that whispers, “There has to be more to my life than this.” Maybe it rises when you’re staring at your career wondering why the ladder you’ve been climbing feels like it’s leaning against the wrong wall. Or maybe it comes at 2AM when you realize you’ve been living for everyone else—family, partner, boss—and not yourself.

It’s not just you. It’s the silent epidemic of women who, like me once upon a time, were taught to perform instead of be. The truth is this: what happens when your personality type isn’t soul-centered can feel like a seven-year life tsunami. I know, because I lived it.

Why the Stakes Are So High

Here’s what I’ve come to believe:
You chose your personality type. It wasn’t random. It’s the exact set of traits, tendencies, and quirks you need for your soul’s evolution. 🌀

But here’s the catch: when your personality type is only defined by outdated, psychological models (from the 1950s mind you)… it stays locked in ego, fear, and performance. Translation? You end up making life’s biggest choices—career, love, purpose—from the wrong compass.

And let’s be honest: if you don’t know who you really are… how can you be fulfilled? How can you feel passion, alignment, purpose?
The truth is—you can’t.

No wonder nearly 97% of people want to change something about their personality (Psychology Today). That’s six billion people trying to rewrite themselves instead of remembering themselves.

You don’t need to reinvent yourself—you need to remember yourself. Transformation isn’t becoming someone new, it’s returning home to who you’ve always been.

The Paradigm Shift: From Personality To Soul-Centered Personality

Traditional personality typing is helpful—but incomplete.
It reduces you to archetypes, boxes, or four little letters. At best, it explains traits. What it doesn’t do is reveal your Truth.

That’s why I created Spiritual Personality Typing℠. It reframes personality as:

• Conditioned Self → shaped by fear, ego, trauma, culture (the mask you wear).

• Innate Self → your natural-born traits and tendencies (your foundation).

• Spiritual Self → the eternal compass that knows your soul path (your True Self).

When you integrate all three, and allow Spirit—not ego—to lead, your personality becomes less about performance and more about possibility.

When your personality type isn’t soul-centered, life feels like a script written by someone else. But when Spirit leads, your truth becomes the author of your story.

My Light Switch Moment 

For me, it happened during my own 7-year tsunami. Divorce. Career loss. A thousand small endings that left me scraping myself up off the floor. My most sacred rituals suddenly felt hollow.

Then, during a move, I uncovered an old retreat notebook—pages of raw notes on personality typing. Epiphany after epiphany poured out. That notebook sent me down a soul excavation: Jung, Myers-Briggs, eventually certification as an instructor. But always with one key insight pulsing through me: we cannot stop at psychology. We must integrate Spirit.

💡That became my rescue mantra—and eventually, my evolutionary philosophy; Spiritual Personality Typing. The new thought-theory that helped me remember my truth, rebuild my life, and began living aligned with Divine Intelligence instead of fear.

What Actually Happens When You’re Not Soul-Centered

Without soul integration, personality typing becomes shallow. Here’s the fallout I see (and lived myself):

• You’re stuck in the 97% club, always trying to change instead of remember.

• You keep replaying the same lessons, patterns, cycles.

• You outsource decision-making to others—then wonder why it doesn’t fit.

• Your gifts lie dormant because fear, ego, or cultural expectations override them.

• Relationships, careers, even diets feel like costumes, not reflections of your soul.

Sound familiar? Then you’ve already felt the cost of a personality that isn’t soul-centered.

The treasures you’ve been searching for aren’t out there in the world—they’re buried within your own traits, waiting to be revealed through Divine Intelligence.

Becoming a 3%’er 

Here’s the alternative:

• Reframe personality typing with a spiritual lens.

• Remember your sacred truths beneath conditioning.

• Reveal your authentic self, the WHO of who you are.

• Recalibrate by living guided by intuition and Divine Intelligence.

🌺 This isn’t reinvention. It’s revelation. You don’t need a reset—you need to return home to yourself.

Journal Prompt 

Are you at a crossroads—career, relationship, empty nest, fresh start?
Ask yourself:

• Am I confident enough to choose what’s best for me—not my kids, partner, or culture?

• Am I ready to step into the unknown… trusting my Spirit instead of performing my ego?

✍🏻 Write your truths down. Then sit with them. Let them simmer. Every decision begins here.

Final Thoughts

Here’s what I know now: new beginnings don’t come from changing everything about yourself. They come from embodying the self you were designed to be—your True Self. That’s when life flows. That’s when struggle transforms into a sacred rite of passage.

When your personality type is soul-centered, you stop asking, “Who am I?” and start living the truth: “I am already here.”

And if you’re ready to walk this path, I’d love to meet you. The first 15 minutes are always my gift to you.

🌸 Book Your Clarity Call Here.

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.

Please Share: What Happens When Your Personality Type Isn’t Soul-Centered?

It’s always my intention to encourage you and plant seeds to help you think differently. To tap into the unique aspects of your true self through spiritual personality type. By doing so, we can collectively raise the vibration of the planet. If you know someone—a friend, co-worker, or family member—who is struggling with self-understanding or seeking their true self, please share this post with them. You never know who might need this message today.

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Dive Deeper? I Got You

If this speaks to you even a little bit, check out my podcast interview on Shine Within with host Gina Kunadian

🎧 Unlocking Your True Self

👉 Listen here.

Thank you, Gina, for believing in my mission — even before I fully believed in it myself. 🩵

Additional Resources:

👀  For additional learning watch more on my YouTube Channel. Click here

🔖 The Hidden Personality Traits That Unlock New Beginnings: 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

Find Yourself

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.