What do I truly desire?

written by Maggie Sale Ostara, PhD

I just started a 40-day practice into the inquiry of DESIRE. What do I truly want and desire? Seems like a simple question, right? One thing I’ve discovered about myself – and I’ve heard this from so many friends and clients – is that this is not such a simple question after all. My conditioning led me on certain path, my interests are wide so it’s easy to go into many different directions either over time or all at once! At midlife, I am more and more coming into terms with realizing I can only do and experience so many things. And this animates the question even more – what do I truly desire? Because while I have many possibilities – I want to move in the direction of what I desire most.

I created a special journal for my inquiry, and I’m using a structure created by my friend, Christine Arylo. She outlines the structure in her book, Madly in Love with Me, in case you want to create a 40-day practice for yourself. It’s so easy to move along day by day carried by the busyness and demands of life. Creating this kind of intention and container brings another dimension in. This is my first one – I’ll report back when I’m done!

Maggie Sale Ostara, PhD left her prestigious job as the Director of Women’s a Gender Studies at Columbia University when she realized she’s not built to work for anyone else. Since then, Dr. Ostara has become a Certified Human Design Specialist (Level 4), a Certified Clarity Breathwork Practitioner, a highly sought after teacher-mentor, who teaches high-achieving women how to develop their personal sovereignty, to activate their super powers, and to unleash themselves from society’s prescription of success.

She’s the creator of the Soul Signature Self Awareness Project, the Wheel of Power of the Visionary Entrepreneur, and over 20 educational programs focused building soul-inspired businesses that positively impact the world and taking command of your life through personal sovereignty. She’s hosted 5 multi-speaker online conferences, and spoken on over 15 such conferences reaching audiences of over 200,000 participants.

With two decades of experience supporting 20,000+ students and hundreds of clients through her online programs and conferences, Dr. Ostara teaches how to avoid overwhelm and burnout, how to make reliable decisions, how to create a bigger impact with less effort, and how to transform inner liabilities into powerful assets and allies.