On Desire, Guilt, and Why 2026 is Asking for More

There is a kind of desire that doesn't shout. It doesn't claw at the walls or demand attention. It simply sits in the quiet of your chest and asks, "Is this really all there is for me?" For a long time, I thought that whisper was a sign of ingratitude. I've come to learn it is the voice of the feminine beginning to stir.

I've been sitting with a particular feeling lately, maybe you know it...

It's the quiet ache of feminine desire.

Not just the desire for a specific outcome—a partner, a project, a paycheck—but the deeper, soul-level desire for fullness. For more connection. More creative flow. More sexual aliveness. More permission to simply be me without shrinking.

When I first began this work of healing the feminine within myself, I expected to find liberation. Instead, I hit a wall of grief.

As I became intimate with my own desire, I realised I had to walk through a field of shame first. Every time I wanted more—more intimacy, more recognition for my creativity, more rest—a voice whispered:

"Who are you to want more? Be grateful for what you have. You're being too much."

This is the wound so many of us carry. We learn to equate desire with greed, as if wanting expansion means we aren't grateful for what is already here. But here is the truth I have learned in the depths:

Gratitude and desire are not opposites. They are lovers.

We can be deeply, achingly grateful for this life, and yet still feel the Shakti pulse within us urging us to create, to connect, and to plant the seeds of the new.

This is the theme we are exploring deeply next month inside the Abide Your True Essence community. We are getting radically honest about desire—not just the surface wants, but the soul's true longings. The work is discerning which desires are truly ours, whispered from the depths of our authentic essence, and which desires belong to fear, conditioning, or the wounds of not-enoughness. When we strip away the desires that were handed to us by a culture that profits from our insecurity, what remains is pure, holy, creative fire. That is the desire we are learning to trust. There's a deeper layer too that requires our attention - our relationship to our desires - this I have found to be deeply distorted and something women are feeling called to heal.

This is the energy of 2026.

The cosmic current right now is not gentle. It is a fierce, loving, and unrelenting push toward clearing. It is asking us to look at the armour we wear—the "crown" of being the good girl, the "necklace" of people-pleasing—and lay it down at the gate.

It is time to stop apologising for the depth of our longing.

That is why I created Rebirth Your True Essence.

This is not a surface-level course. It is a Heroine's Descent. It is an 8-week sacred container where we use the ancient myth of Inanna to navigate our own underworld. We will meet the shame, the grief, and the contraction—not to wallow there, but to finally let it go.

We will use the Hawkins Scale of Consciousness as our map, to understand exactly where you are stuck energetically. And we will use the profound practice of Letting Go so that you can move through the gates of your own healing and emerge more whole - ready to love our next chapters with deep authenticity

This is for the woman who is ready to meet her own Ereshkigal (the core wound) and rise again as the Sovereign of her own life.

If you've been feeling the rumble of change and the ache of "is this all there is?"—this is your time.

With fierce love and the permission to want it all,

Louise