Getting to Know
Your Inner Crews
Based on the book
How to Talk Amongst Your Selves
A free guide to the nine protective patterns that shape how you think, feel, lead, and relate — and what it means to lead them differently.
Most people have a sense that something is running their inner life that they didn’t consciously choose.
The part that drives relentlessly and still doesn’t feel like enough. The one that says yes when every cell means no. The one that overthinks everything, or shuts down entirely, or keeps the peace at considerable personal cost.
These aren’t character flaws. They’re adaptive protective patterns (APPs)— strategies your inner system developed in response to real experiences, real needs, and real moments where something essential was missing.
In the Inner Crews framework, these patterns cluster into nine distinct constellations, each organized around a core wound that caused a belief about life, yourself, and the world, along with two protective strategies. Most people aren’t just one crew. You’re usually a coalition — different parts more active in different contexts, under different kinds of pressure.
This guide introduces all nine.
For each Crew, you’ll find the beliefs at the center, how the two protective patterns show up, and what the path toward greater Self Leadership looks like. Not as a diagnosis but as a possibility.
What you’ll get:
The Getting to Know Your Inner Crews Guide is a complete introduction to the Inner Crews framework — the same one behind the Who’s On Your Crew? Self Leadership Assessment and the book How to Talk Amongst Your Selves.
It’s for you if:
- You recognize patterns in yourself you haven’t been able to name
- You’ve ever wondered why insight alone doesn’t seem to change things
- You want a grounded, compassionate framework for understanding your inner world
- You’re curious about Self Leadership but don’t know where to start
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I created this framework because I kept watching capable, thoughtful people struggle with patterns they couldn’t quite name — and couldn’t seem to stop. Having language for what’s happening inside you doesn’t solve everything. But it changes the relationship. And that’s where things begin to shift.