Different Versions of Yourself: How The Inner Role Map Works
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Map the hidden patterns that shape how you think, feel, love and live.
A guided psychological mapping workbook to help you understand the different roles you inhabit, how they developed, and how they shape your experience of yourself and your relationships.
Rather than asking you to reflect endlessly, The Inner Role Map gives you a way to make what you know about yourself visible and to see where you might begin to move differently.
A practical framework for self-understanding, created by a mother and daughter drawing on decades of therapeutic work and lived experience.
A different way to understand yourself
You may recognise different versions of yourself at work, at home and in your relationships. You may be capable and composed in one setting, withdrawn in another, or find yourself carrying responsibilities long after they have become exhausting.
These patterns often have a history. They developed in response to what was possible, expected or safe in the relationships and environments that shaped you.
The Inner Role Map offers a way to look at these patterns with greater clarity — not as fixed traits, but as parts of your inner system that developed for particular reasons.
The aim is not to become someone else. It is to understand yourself more fully.
How The Inner Role Map works
The framework explores twelve inner roles through a visual map organised around your core self.
1. Recognise your roles
Explore twelve roles and reflect on how each appears in your behaviour, relationships and everyday life.
2. Place them on your map
Mark each role's current position in relation to your centre. The distance represents how accessible or integrated that role feels in your life.
3. Explore the distance
Notice which roles feel natural and available, which appear inconsistently, and which feel distant or difficult to access.
4. Map your desired state
Mark where you sense each role could be. Comparing your current and desired positions gives you a concrete way to consider what you want to understand or change.
5. Read the map as a whole
Look beyond individual roles to the relationships between them. The map is a living system: changes in one role can affect the balance of others.
There is no correct arrangement. The value lies in what you begin to recognise.
What you may begin to understand
Through the mapping process, you can explore:
Why certain patterns repeat across different relationships and situations.
Which roles you rely on most, and which receive less room in your life.
Where you may be overextended, withdrawn or disconnected from parts of yourself.
How earlier relationships and environments may have shaped the ways you respond today.
Which aspects of yourself you would like to understand more deeply or make more accessible.
The map does not tell you who you are. It gives you a structure through which to examine your own experience.
Who this book is for
The Inner Role Map is for women who want to understand themselves beyond familiar labels and personality descriptions.
It may be particularly relevant if you:
Notice recurring patterns in your relationships.
Feel that different parts of your life bring out very different versions of you.
Have spent time reflecting on yourself but want a more tangible way to organise what you notice.
Want to explore the relationship between your past experiences and present behaviour.
Prefer a thoughtful, self-directed process over quick answers or prescriptive advice.
You can work through the map independently or alongside a therapist. The framework is designed to support reflection, not replace professional care.
The thinking behind the method
The Inner Role Map was created by Zsuzsanna Stumpf and Tünde Révy, a mother and daughter bringing two perspectives to the same work. Zsuzsanna draws on over twenty years of therapeutic work, including analytical psychology and systemic family constellations. Tünde helped translate the framework into an accessible process that women can work through in their own time.
The framework builds on the tradition of archetypal psychology while developing its own system of twelve roles, visual mapping, distance and relationship.
The result is a meeting of therapeutic experience and practical self-exploration.
What you receive
The Inner Role Map is a guided book and mapping process. It includes:
An introduction to the framework and how to use it.
Twelve individual role explorations.
Reflection prompts and space to map each role.
Guidance for reading the relationships and distances within your map.
A process for moving from awareness towards considered change.
Blank maps in the appendix for continued reflection.
Your outcome is a map shaped by your own experience, alongside a clearer perspective on the patterns you want to understand.
Begin with what is already there
You do not need another version of yourself to aspire to. You need a way to see the one who is already here, including the parts you understand well and the parts you have yet to make sense of.
The Inner Role Map offers a place to begin.
Explore your inner roles. See the patterns. Find your direction. Shop now.
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