About DesireWork.
The Heart of the Work
Most of us move through life following scripts — family expectations, cultural programming, or survival patterns. Along the way, our true desires get buried. DesireWork exists to create a space where you can uncover what you really want, without judgment, shame, or pressure to conform.
What Desire Work Is (and Isn’t)
This is not a replacement for therapy. DesireWork is an assessment process informed by Internal Family Systems, shadow work, power dynamics, consent frameworks, and a deep respect for neurodiversity. It’s about uncovering and integrating your desires — especially the ones you’ve been told are unreasonable, taboo, or “too much.” While therapy often focuses on healing the past, DesireWork focuses on what you want now, and how those wants can become the foundation for your freedom and wholeness.
Our Approach
We believe that desire is the root of freedom. When you clarify what you truly want, you gain access to a new kind of motivation, aliveness, and authenticity. Our role is not to hand you answers but to create a container for exploration: one that pushes when needed, validates when important, and always respects your autonomy. We bring both compassion and challenge — because growth happens when we’re willing to face the truths we’ve avoided.
Why This Matters
So many people live lives built on “shoulds” instead of wants. DesireWork is for those who sense something missing — a tug-of-war between their inner desires and the roles or beliefs they’ve inherited. If that’s you, this work offers a path to clarity, empowerment, and self-trust. The goal is not to fit you into someone else’s definition of success, but to help you uncover what freedom, wholeness, and authenticity mean for you.
FAQs
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Utterly private. Your inventory belongs to you alone. Nothing is shared, sold, or exposed without your explicit and informed consent. You decide what to reveal.
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Ask yourself if there’s always been something gnawing at the edges of your life—a whisper you’ve pushed aside, an ache beneath the identity you thought you wanted. DesireWork calls to those who are ready to risk shedding old skins and seeing who they truly are. It takes strength to take responsibility for your desires and your power. Not everyone is ready for that. If you are, you’ll know—the thought of surrendering to that longing will be exhilerating and intoxicating.
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Absolutely not. Therapy helps you heal with trained professionals. DesireWork helps you claim what has always been burning inside you. It is a companion to therapy, coaching, or spiritual practice—but its heart is personal and intuitive. We aim to be part of a holistic support system for those that resonate with the framework.
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DesireWork has many influences. The primary sources are archetypal psychology and the wheel of consent, as well as sources from teachers of trauma, embodiment, sexuality, gender, culture, and identity. Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Dossie Eaton, Dr. Sharon Blackie, Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, Dr. Emily Nagoski, Dr. Carolyn Elliott, Sheryl Paul, Dr. Richard C. Schwartz, and Dr. Cordelia Fine are some of our favorites, amoung countless others. These threads are woven into something new—an original framework where desire and power can finally speak to one another.
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We encourage you to demand the following biases of any content, advisor, leader, or community you engage with.
DesireWork was created in North America, with strong influences from white, indigenous, mixed-heritage, queer, and neurodivergent communities, with all the privileges and blind spots that come from middle-class, professional, and educated backgrounds. It carries liberal, progressive, and agnostic leanings. DesireWork has an undercurrent of suspicion toward rigid dogma and is shaped by Western academic frameworks. It is born from the vigilance and unrelenting hunger for truth that are often brought on by generational trauma, childhood abuse, and minority status. DesireWork is built from the perspective of mid-adulthood, with the hindsight of survival but not yet the wisdom of elderhood.
These biases mark our motivations as transparently as we can. We are not free from context; DesireWork is an offering shaped by identity, culture, privilege, and trauma as is any idea, framework, or system. We invite you to bring your own context, your own biases, and let the conversation between them become part of the work.
A compass for self-inquiry to reveal your hidden desires and activate your latent power.
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