What TEG-Blue is
TEG-Blue is a visual mapping system designed to make emotional patterns measurable, testable, and usable across individuals, relationships, institutions, and AI systems.
It builds on existing research across nervous system regulation, attachment, development, trauma, social psychology, and language.
The originality is not in claiming a new theory for each domain. It is in building an integrated structure that makes the connections explicit, operational, and testable.
How TEG-Blue began
In April 2024, my life collapsed. I walked away from a deeply harmful relationship with nothing, while navigating trauma and emotional manipulation. What followed wasn't recovery. It was survival.
Fueled by trauma, ADHD, and a desperate need to understand what had happened to me, I fell into hyperfocus. I read everything I could find: psychology, neuroscience, trauma research, attachment, family systems, emotional abuse. And then something clicked. I started to see the hidden logic behind the patterns I had lived through. Not only in the relationship I'd left, but across my entire life.
I realized I'd been reading emotional patterns since childhood, fluent in a language I didn't even know had a name. What looked like personal chaos was often systemic. The patterns weren't unique to me. They were recognizable dynamics that show up everywhere, but rarely get mapped with precision.
So I did what I've always done. I made it visible. I started mapping and reverse-engineering the patterns. What began as survival sketches became a structured system. Over a year of intensive, solitary work, it crystallized into TEG-Blue.
Two sites
teg-blue.org (you are here)
The open research hub. Publications, methodology, frameworks, open questions, collaboration.
For researchers, academics, clinicians, and AI safety researchers.
teg-blue.com
The application site. Interactive tools, guided experiences, and practical instruments for individuals and practitioners.
For everyday people, coaches, therapists, and organizational professionals.
The founder
Anna Paretas-Artacho
Anna developed TEG-Blue over nearly two years of independent research, drawing on a lifetime of pattern observation, systems thinking, personal experience, and cross-disciplinary reading.
The Four-Mode Gradient was not designed first and then explained. It emerged through building each Framework, one by one, to explain patterns she had lived through and witnessed. When the pieces were placed together, the gradient became visible.
The theoretical mapping is a working hypothesis — a starting point for deeper scholarly validation. Human researchers are needed to verify accuracy, correct errors, and deepen the analysis.
Research identity
License
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