Diving into the Depths of Your Desires

A reflective workbook for discovering what you really want 

So, darling, what do you really want?

It sounds like such a simple question until you try to answer it.

Maybe you know exactly what your husband wants for his birthday, which restaurant everyone else prefers, what needs to happen at work this week, and who in the family needs your attention. You can choose the beautiful bakery box when you’re bringing something to someone else and spend twenty minutes finding exactly the right gift for someone you love.

But when the question turns toward you, the answer can become surprisingly difficult.

You may know what is practical. What makes sense. What you should be grateful for. What would cause the least disruption. You may even have a very good life, filled with people and things you genuinely love.

And still, something in you may be asking for a little more attention.

Diving Into the Depths of Your Desires is a reflective workbook designed to help you move beyond the sensible first answer and become curious about what you actually want, what you no longer want, what you miss, what delights you, and what may have been quietly asking for your attention.

This is not a workbook about blowing up your life.

You will not be told that every uncomfortable feeling requires a dramatic change, every desire should become a goal, or every startling answer must immediately become a decision. Sometimes a desire asks for action. Sometimes it reveals a need you hadn’t known how to name. Sometimes it is simply wonderful information about the woman you are now.

Across six sections, you’ll move from noticing where you may have lost sight of yourself to listening more closely to desire, looking beneath the first answer, sitting gently with what surfaces, bringing what you’ve learned back into ordinary life, and eventually deciding whether one honest next step is asking to be taken.

There are reflections to read, questions to sit with, guided exercises, examples, plenty of room to write, and a deeper Five Whys exercise that helps you explore what a desire may really be offering you beneath its most obvious form.

You’ll explore questions such as what you want more of and less of, what you keep postponing, what you’ve quietly outgrown, what brings you back to yourself, what feels almost too selfish or impractical to admit, and what you may finally be ready to let matter.

And you don’t have to rush.

You could work through the entire workbook in a determined day, but that would be a rather demanding pace for something designed to make you think. Give yourself a weekend. Spend one afternoon a week with it. Work through a few pages whenever you have enough quiet to hear your own answers.

There is no prize for finishing first.

There may, however, be something rather wonderful in discovering that you know yourself better than you thought you did.

Bring the beautiful pen. Use the journal you’ve been saving. Pick up the pastry you usually talk yourself out of. Make your coffee or tea and give yourself a little room to be curious.

Then begin with one question: What do I really want?

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