Exploring Core Desired Feelings with the Desire Map

Things are about to get deliciously real around here. The Desire Map, a book and concept by Danielle LaPorte that has totally shifted my life, is now a part of my coaching reality and mine to share with you. 

As a licensed Desire Map Facilitator, I will be leading in-person and virtual workshops to help guide women to discovering their Core Desired Feelings (CDFs), and the enlightenment that comes with discovering the freedom and vibrancy that appear when creating your "goals with soul."

I have been touching on Desire Map concepts for a while (How do you want to feel at the Thanksgiving meal? What does it mean to feel clean?) The idea is fresh, expansive, and totally awesome.

When you visit my Profile in the Desire Map directory, you'll see that my CDFs are Wholesome, Sexy, and Spirit. Here's how I brought these core desired feelings into being. 

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Wholesome. This CDF kept popping up. But it didn't sound right.

It sounded Laura Ingalls. Corn-fed, high-banged, plaid-dressed, robust and stick-straight. A word stamped to the front of a cereal box. With a stalk of wheat.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. But, by "Wholesome" I was looking to capture

• Authentically healthy 
  
• Spiritually well-fed 
  
• A Light projector 
  
• Connected. Community. Togetherness.
  

And then I thought, well, Wholesome can be that.

Wholesome. I'm keeping it.

But -- also: SEXY. 

Not pushed up and fish-netted (necessarily)...

I'm talking blaze, charisma, whole-throat laughter

Wink. Shimmy. Swirl.

Holding Wholesome's hand and sharing synchronized footfalls as we sashay along.

And then: SPIRIT (-ed), (-ual) 

My heart's wings unfurled. Fist bumping my inner, grounded, tree hugging, light shining goddess. Emit calm. Inspire joy. Just, rad joy. And true, blissed out, gut-wrenching gratitude. Breath, breeze, face to the sun, filled up.

So that's it. I'm claiming my CDFs (in this moment). Wholesome. Sexy. Spirit.


For more of the Desire Map experience, click here. 

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Are you ready to start exploring your own Core Desired Feelings? Which ones pop up for you immediately? Share with me in comments. 

xx
Emily