The Desire Assessment
Take this if:
- •The things you want most often feel out of reach.
- •The love, healing, purpose, or pleasure you hoped for seems painfully absent.
- •Some of your desires seem to lead you toward your deepest struggles instead of the life you actually want.
How it will help you:
- •Understand the meaning of your struggles.
- •Identify where your desires are underdeveloped, burdened, or restricted.
- •Turn desire into a force for connection, purpose, and love.
In 30–45 minutes, you'll explore five core domains of desire and receive a personalized report grounded in national research to help you understand your story, strengthen your relationships, and connect to deeper meaning and vitality.
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How it works
Four steps to a clearer picture of your desire
Answer 190 questions
Work through five domains of desire at your own pace. Questions are clinical, thoughtful, and designed to surface patterns you may not see on your own.
Learn what is blocking desire
Discover where childhood experiences, relational patterns, anxiety, or shame may be distorting your relationship to desire.
Understand what can set it free
Receive scores across five domains with band-level interpretations, subscale breakdowns, and research-backed directions for growth.
Receive your personalized report
Your full written report is ready the moment you finish—complete with reflection questions, next steps, and a personal action plan.
Five domains
What you'll discover
Each domain reveals a different dimension of how desire forms, gets distorted, and can be reclaimed.
Desires
Wholeness
Your Roots
How childhood experiences, early attachment, and formative wounds continue to shape your relationship with desire today.
Growth
Your Capacity
Your resilience, confidence, ability to cope with anxiety, and the courage to pursue what matters most to you.
Intimacy
Your Connections
The depth of security, repair, and differentiation in your closest relationships—and how they shape your desire.
Pleasure
Your Pleasure
Your ability to rest, receive, and experience joy—including your relationship to sexual health and embodiment.
Meaning
Your Purpose
How aligned your life is with authenticity, calling, and contribution—and whether meaning is feeding or starving desire.
Desire Integration
Your Desire
Identify the degree to which you trust your own desires and feel safe with the desires of others—the integrative lens across every domain.
About the Creator
Jay Stringer
Licensed Counselor · Author · Researcher
Jay Stringer is a licensed counselor, researcher, and bestselling author who helps people uncover the unexpected meaning hidden in life's hardest challenges.
The Desire Assessment is grounded in a national research study of over 4,000 participants—exploring the psychological, relational, and spiritual dimensions of desire and what it means to live toward connection, purpose, and love.