FREE
Disconnection Stress™ Self-Assessment
How disconnected are YOU, FROM YOURSELF?
A reflection tool for women who are high-functioning on the outsideand quietly depleted on the inside.
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BEFORE YOU BEGIN
What is Disconnection Stress™?
Disconnection Stress™ is the chronic internal strain of living out of alignment with yourself for so long that survival starts to feel normal. It is what happens when your body keeps the schedule, your mouth keeps the peace, your hands keep the calendar — and somewhere underneath, you have lost contact with what is actually true for you.
This assessment helps you locate where Disconnection Stress is showing up:
in your body, your emotions, your relationships, your choices, and your daily patterns.
HOW TO SCORE
For each statement, rate yourself:
0 - Not true for me,
1 - Sometimes true,
2 - Often true,
3 - Very true — this is my life
There are no right or wrong answers. The honest answer is the one that lands first.
SECTION 1: Body + Nervous System
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I feel tense, wired, exhausted, or overstimulated more often than I want to admit.
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My body feels like it is constantly bracing for something.
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I struggle to fully relax, even when nothing is technically wrong.
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I feel disconnected from my body’s signals until they become loud or urgent.
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I push through fatigue, hunger, pain, stress, or overwhelm because things still need to get done.
Section total: ____ / 15
Section 2: Emotional Life
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I feel irritable, resentful, anxious, numb, or emotionally heavy more often than I show.
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I minimize my own feelings because other people “have it worse.”
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I often don’t know what I actually feel until I’m already overwhelmed.
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I suppress emotions to keep the peace or keep functioning.
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I feel like I should be grateful, but something still feels off inside.
Section total: ____ / 15
Section 3: Identity + Self-Trust
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I don’t feel fully like myself anymore.
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I question my decisions or need outside validation before trusting myself.
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I have built a life that looks “fine” or “successful,” but doesn’t always feel like mine.
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I have spent years being who everyone needed me to be.
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I struggle to know what I want, need, desire, or prefer.
Section total: ____ / 15
Section 4: Relationships + Family
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I feel responsible for everyone else’s emotions, needs, comfort, or success.
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I say yes when I want to say no.
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I feel unseen, unsupported, taken for granted, or emotionally alone.
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I avoid hard conversations because I don’t want conflict, guilt, or disappointment.
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I give so much of myself that there is very little left for me.
Section total: ____ / 15
Section 5: Work, Purpose + Daily Life
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I am productive, capable, and high-functioning, but I often feel depleted underneath.
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I feel like I am constantly managing life instead of actually living it.
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My calendar, responsibilities, or business/work demands run me more than I run them.
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I have dreams, ideas, or desires I keep postponing.
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I feel like I am waiting for life to calm down before I can finally become myself again.
Section total: ____ / 15
Your Score
Add all five section totals.
Total Score: ____ / 75
0–15: Mild Disconnection Stress
You may have moments of stress or self-abandonment, but you still have access to yourself. This is a powerful time to strengthen self-trust, nervous system regulation, and intentional choice before patterns become deeply embedded.
16–35: Moderate Disconnection Stress
You are likely functioning well on the outside while overriding yourself on the inside. You may notice anxiety, resentment, fatigue, emotional eating, people-pleasing, overthinking, or a quiet sense that something needs to change.
36–55: High Disconnection Stress
Your system may be carrying the cost of years of self-sacrifice, emotional suppression, over-responsibility, and disconnection from your own truth. This is where burnout, anxiety, body symptoms, relationship strain, and loss of self often become harder to ignore.
56–75: Severe Disconnection Stress
This may feel like living in survival mode while still trying to perform, caretake, lead, manage, and hold everything together. Your body, emotions, and life may be signaling that surface-level stress management is no longer enough. The deeper pattern needs attention.
Your Biggest Disconnection Pattern
Look at your section scores. Your highest section shows where Disconnection Stress may be most active right now.
Highest section: ____________________
This may be the area where your system is asking for the most support.
REFLECTION
Five questions to sit with.
- Where am I most disconnected from myself right now?
- What symptoms have I been calling “stress” that may actually be Disconnection Stress?
- What have I normalized that is actually costing me my peace, health, confidence, or joy?
- What would change if I stopped overriding myself?
- What is one truth I am ready to name now?
Disconnection Stress is not a character flaw. It is not weakness. It is not “just stress.” The work is to locate the disconnection, identify the pattern, and begin rewiring your life from the inside out.