Your Primary Bloom Is Half the Picture
What the terrain has been calling you is the rest.
Kim got her result and went quiet for a second.
Then: “You’re gonna make me cry now.”
She’s a Hollyhock with a Lily running close behind. When Shelly walked her through what that combination means (the burst of full engagement followed by a genuine need to disappear and recover), Kim said yes immediately. “I go in full force, and then I’m like, oh gosh, I feel tired. Why do I feel tired? I should be able to keep going.”
The guide for Lily says that when the Lily goes dark during recovery, it can feel like self-abandonment. Kim recognized it before the sentence finished.
Other assessments let her identify herself. This one reminded her of who she is. She said it exactly that way, and the data from the first 215 completed assessments shows why the difference matters (read about the Wildflower Personality Assessment for Women Veterans™).
One in three women in this dataset was called aggressive for being direct.
One in three was called cold for needing space.
The terrain had a word for her. It just wasn’t the right one.
Two things came out of this data that belong together. The blend finding is what your result is made of. The misread data shows you what the terrain has been calling you instead. Together they give you language precise enough to stop carrying other people’s mislabeling as your own self-definition.
The Blend Is the Map
A blend is scored when the top two flowers land within 15 percentage points of each other. Two patterns that close aren’t a tiebreaker. They’re two parts of the same operating system running simultaneously.
Sixty-nine percent of the women who completed this assessment are blends.
