Meet the 6 Hijackers of
Your Self Sovereignty

These patterns aren't flaws — they're survival strategies.

Each hijacker reflects a unique survival adaptation shaped by your personal, relational, cultural, or ancestral experiences. These insights are extracted from the Self Sovereign Method™ — a trauma-informed, parts-aware, and spiritually-rooted framework developed by Bethany Russell to guide clients back to their internal authority, wholeness, and intuitive truth.

Discovering your primary hijacker helps you see what’s been running the show—so you can begin to reclaim your clarity, intuition, and sovereignty. These patterns were formed for good reason—but they no longer need to lead.

Explore all six below — your quiz results may show one as dominant, but most people resonate with several. Follow your curiosity.

Blended with Parts

You’re not broken. You're just blended.

That part of you that takes over during hard conversations? The one who feels five years old again when you're misunderstood or criticized? The people-pleasing part that says yes when you mean no?

They’re running the show—and you’ve mistaken them for you.

When you're blended, your wounded parts are steering the wheel. Your authentic Sovereign Self—the calm, wise, intuitive center of you—is locked in the passenger seat.

Signs This Might Be You:

  • You say “I’m just anxious” instead of “I have an anxious part”

  • You feel guilty for setting boundaries

  • You can’t rest without feeling lazy or worthless

  • You collapse into “this is just who I am” instead of seeing the pattern

What Happens Next: To deepen your healing, you’re invited to sign up for a short email series with supportive insights, journal prompts, and gentle tools to help you:

  • Understand this hijacker’s protective role

  • Start separating from it (without shaming it)

  • Reconnect with your calm, wise Sovereign Self

📅 Ready for deeper transformation now? Book a Self Sovereign Intensive

📊 Check your results summary for a breakdown of all your hijacker scores.

🌀 Curious to explore the others right away? Meet All 6 Hijackers →

💌 Watch your inbox for the first of your guided emails in the next few days.

Nervous System on Overdrive

Your nervous system isn't wrong — it’s just over-functioning to protect you.

If you often feel hyper-aware, jumpy, emotionally shut down, or constantly scanning your environment, that’s not weakness — it’s your body’s ancient survival system trying to keep you safe.

This hijacker doesn’t speak in thoughts — it shows up in states: anxious, frozen, dissociated, fawning, or collapsed. You’re not failing — you’re flooded.

Signs This Might Be You:

  • You feel like you can’t relax until everyone around you is settled

  • You get emotionally flooded by conflict or overstimulation

  • You live in your head, dissociate from your body, or swing between hyper- and hypo-arousal

  • You’ve been told you’re “too sensitive” or “too much”

What Happens Next: To deepen your healing, you’re invited to sign up for a short email series with supportive insights, journal prompts, and gentle tools to help you:

  • Understand this hijacker’s protective role

  • Regulate your nervous system with gentleness

  • Reconnect with your calm, wise Sovereign Self

📅 Ready for deeper transformation now? Book a Self Sovereign Intensive
📊 Check your results summary for a breakdown of all your hijacker scores.
🌀 Curious to explore the others right away? Meet All 6 Hijackers
💌 Watch your inbox for the first of your guided emails in the next few days.

Attachment Wounds

Your need for connection isn’t the problem—it’s how your system learned to survive without it.

When attachment wounds are running the show, your sense of safety, self-worth, and identity are tethered to how others respond to you. This hijacker developed from early relationships where love may have been inconsistent, conditional, or unsafe.

Now, it shows up as emotional chasing, fear of abandonment, avoidance, or merging. It’s not clingy. It’s protective.

Signs This Might Be You:

  • You replay text conversations in your head, wondering if you said too much (or too little)

  • You often don’t believe people mean what they say unless it’s proven repeatedly

  • You fear being “too much” or “not enough” in relationships

  • You push people away and long for closeness at the same time

What Happens Next: To deepen your healing, you’re invited to sign up for a short email series with supportive insights, journal prompts, and gentle tools to help you:

  • Understand this hijacker’s protective role

  • Learn new relational templates without self-abandonment

  • Reconnect with your calm, wise Sovereign Self

📅 Ready for deeper transformation now? Book a Self Sovereign Intensive

📊 Check your results summary for a breakdown of all your hijacker scores.

🌀 Curious to explore the others right away? Meet All 6 Hijackers →

💌 Watch your inbox for the first of your guided emails in the next few days.

Legacy Burdens

Some of what you carry isn't yours.

Legacy burdens are inherited beliefs, behaviors, and emotional patterns passed down through generations — especially through lines marked by trauma, oppression, silence, or sacrifice.

This hijacker speaks in internalized “shoulds,” ancestral fear, and unspoken loyalties. It’s the voice that whispers: “Who do you think you are to break this cycle?” and “You must stay small to stay safe.”

It shows up especially in ancestral gender wounds and systems of oppression — the parts of you shaped by intergenerational trauma, racism, colonization, or being LGBTQ+ in a family or culture that couldn’t hold your truth. Healing it is rebellion and restoration.

Signs This Might Be You:

  • You feel guilt or shame for taking up space or owning your voice

  • You carry pain about your identity—even in affirming environments

  • You sense an invisible weight or duty passed down in your lineage

  • You’ve been told you're the “cycle breaker” in your family

What Happens Next: To deepen your healing, you’re invited to sign up for a short email series with supportive insights, journal prompts, and gentle tools to help you:

  • Understand this hijacker’s protective role

  • Begin releasing inherited emotional and spiritual burdens

  • Reconnect with your calm, wise Sovereign Self

📅 Ready for deeper transformation now? Book a Self Sovereign Intensive

📊 Check your results summary for a breakdown of all your hijacker scores.

🌀 Curious to explore the others right away? Meet All 6 Hijackers →

💌 Watch your inbox for the first of your guided emails in the next few days.

Outsourced Emotional Wellbeing

Somewhere along the way, you learned that your worth was tied to how others felt—and that your peace depended on keeping them happy.

This hijacker runs the show through people-pleasing, emotional attunement hyperdrive, and constant monitoring of others’ moods. You’ve outsourced your emotional stability to everyone around you—and now you're exhausted.

This isn’t weakness. It’s a brilliant strategy from a time when being attuned to others was necessary for safety or connection.

Signs This Might Be You:

  • You say, “If they’re okay, I’m okay”

  • You struggle to separate your emotions from others’ moods

  • You fear setting boundaries will make people leave

  • You feel responsible for keeping everyone calm and happy

What Happens Next: To deepen your healing, you’re invited to sign up for a short email series with supportive insights, journal prompts, and gentle tools to help you:

  • Understand this hijacker’s protective role

  • Clarity on what’s yours and what’s theirs

  • Rebuild inner emotional safety and sovereignty

  • Reconnect with your calm, wise Sovereign Self

📅 Ready for deeper transformation now? Book a Self Sovereign Intensive

📊 Check your results summary for a breakdown of all your hijacker scores.

🌀 Curious to explore the others right away? Meet All 6 Hijackers →

💌 Watch your inbox for the first of your guided emails in the next few days.

Soul & Lineage Imprints

Some of your deepest patterns didn’t start in this lifetime.

This hijacker is shaped by soul memory, ancestral imprints, and wounds carried over lifetimes or passed through energetic and spiritual inheritance. It whispers messages like: “You don’t belong here,” or “Your truth is too much.”

You may feel like you’re carrying pain you can’t explain—or constantly navigating life with a level of sensitivity that others don’t understand. This isn’t you being broken. It’s you being attuned to the unseen.

Signs This Might Be You:

  • You feel like an old soul in a world that doesn’t make sense

  • You’re haunted by grief or fear that has no clear source

  • You’ve experienced recurring dreams, symbols, or themes across your life

  • You feel spiritually disconnected or like you’re always seeking “home”

What Happens Next: To deepen your healing, you’re invited to sign up for a short email series with supportive insights, journal prompts, and gentle tools to help you:

  • Understand this hijacker’s protective role

  • Begin clearing lingering soul contracts or lineage threads

  • Reconnect with your calm, wise Sovereign Self

📅 Ready for deeper transformation now? Book a Self Sovereign Intensive

📊 Check your results summary for a breakdown of all your hijacker scores.

🌀 Curious to explore the others right away? Meet All 6 Hijackers →

💌 Watch your inbox for the first of your guided emails in the next few days.

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