What This Assessment Can Help You Recognize
Support Languages™ is a culturally grounded, reflective self-assessment created specifically for Black women. It names five distinct support needs and helps you recognize which one may matter most in your current season of life. It is not a clinical or diagnostic tool.
The questions take you through different parts of your life. You may need different kinds of support in different places, and that is expected.
Answer from the life you are living now. If something was true last year or even last month but no longer feels true today, do not answer from that earlier season. More than one answer may feel familiar, but choose the one that feels most true for you today.
Your result is the Support Language that shows up most often across your answers. It points to the kind of support that may be most important to you in this season. It is not a personality type, and it does not mean the other four don’t matter. It gives you a place to begin.
“When I took the Support Languages assessment, I was honestly blown away by how resonant the questions felt and how accurate the results were. It didn’t feel surface-level or generic. I remember thinking, ‘This is the real deal.’
What stood out to me most was finally having words for the kind of support I actually need in my everyday life.”
Support Languages Assessment Participant
Journalism & Communications Professional
Before You Begin
More than one answer may feel familiar. Choose the response that feels most true for you right now, even if another response also fits. Answer according to what you need in this season, not what you think you should need.
This is a reflective self-assessment. It is not a clinical or diagnostic tool.
About Your Email
Before you see your result, you’ll be asked for your email address. Your result will appear immediately after you enter it.
We’ll also send your Support Language Snapshot and seven-card mini practice deck to your inbox so you can save, revisit, or print them. You’ll receive follow-up emails from Shades of Strong with practical ways to use your result, and you can unsubscribe at any time.
Your Support Has a Language.
Begin the assessment to identify the kind of support that may be most important to you right now.
