"All your posts and stories lately are really inspiring me to be more authentically me in my life. The freedom and the joy that come with it are like glimmers of hope that I haven't felt in a long time. Culturally it's been ingrained to be a certain way because of perception. I didn't realize what it was doing to my soul. Thank you for sharing everything you are. And thank you for being a catalyst to so many realizations."— Mel, Queens
SHIFT
A workbook for small, intentional shifts
that bring you closer to the life you want
The workbook
What the Shift Workbook actually is.
Shift is a free, self-guided life assessment you take online, one section at a time. You'll move through seven areas — body, relationships, finances, mind, home, work, and play — rating where you are out of ten and answering a small set of honest questions about each. It takes most people around thirty minutes.
It isn't a personality quiz and it isn't a pitch for a program. There's no score at the end that sorts you into a type. What you get instead is a structured look at your own life, in your own words, across the places you usually only think about one at a time. For many women, that alone is the thing they haven't let themselves do in years.
When you finish, you'll have a summary of your responses emailed to you. What you do with it is up to you.
Prefer pen and paper? Download the printable PDF →
What's inside
The seven areas.
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Body & Health
What your body is asking you to notice, and what it's quietly paying for.
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Relationships
Who you feel safe around, who drains you, and what kind of connection you've stopped admitting you want.
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Finances
Where money feels steady, where it feels avoided, and what peace around it would actually look like for you.
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Mind & Growth
What's keeping your mind alive right now, and what's gone flat.
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Home & Environment
Whether the space you live in supports the life you're trying to live, or works against it.
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Career & Purpose
Where your work still means something, and where you've outgrown the version of it you built.
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Fun & Creativity
What happened to the parts of you that weren't useful. And whether you're ready to let them back in.
Who this is for
Who this is for
Women at the hinge of something. Not in crisis — but not pretending the old answer still fits, either.
Some are in the middle of a career pivot, or the quiet part before one — the months when you've stopped talking about the job but haven't yet told anyone you're leaving. Some are in a marriage that still works on paper and has gone quiet in the places that matter. Some are newly divorced, or newly single after a long time of not being. Some are staring at a kid's last year at home and wondering who they're going to be when the house is quiet. Some just came out of a layoff, or a diagnosis, or their first year sober, and they can feel that the next version of their life needs a different set of rules than the last one.
A lot of the women who take this workbook are the capable ones. The ones everybody else thinks are fine. The ones who have been running on a pattern older than their career and can finally feel the cost of it.
If you recognized yourself in any of the above, you're in the right place.
About the author
I'm Amanda Saviñón.
For fifteen years I was a photo editor and creative producer working at publications like Vogue, GQ, New York Magazine, and Bloomberg Businessweek, and I built Loyal Nana, a platform for conversations with women like Sonia Sotomayor and Megan Thee Stallion about identity and reinvention. I spent my career helping other people tell the truest version of their story. The workbook is a small piece of what I now do for women working on their own.
My coaching is informed by psychoanalytic and attachment theory — the fields that take early life seriously instead of pretending it stopped mattering the day you became a competent adult. I came to this work the long way, growing up without either parent and being raised by a village, as a first-generation everything, which is part of why I don't treat the inner life as a luxury. It's the thing most of us were trained to skip.
Read more about Amanda →From the women who've done the work
The workbook is a starting point.
The work it opens into is what the women below are describing.
"Going through the SHIFT Workbook helped me reconnect with something I already knew about myself. I had just stopped listening to it. That realization felt like an important key to understanding what I want to change next."— Amalfi, The Bronx
"I went into the SHIFT Workbook already having a sense of what I wanted to work on. What surprised me was how much more specific it helped me get about the why behind it and the next steps I could actually take."— Dave, Seattle
Thirty minutes, and a more honest picture of where you are.
You've already read this far, which means something in you is ready to look. The workbook won't fix what it finds — nothing on the internet does that. But it will give you, in one sitting, a clearer view of your own life than most women let themselves have in a year. That's the starting point. That's the whole point of a starting point.
Start the workbook Prefer pen and paper? Download the PDF version here.