Bringing Desire Back

Uncover what blocks desire. Learn how to tap back into pleasure and get unstuck. Discover a new sense of hope and possibility.
Perfect for date night
Guided exercises to turn insights into action and understanding
Based on the same processes Esther has used to help real couples for 40+ years
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WHAT YOU’LL GAIN

Learn how to understand your unique relationship with desire and reignite the spark—no matter where you’re starting from.

Understand Your Erotic Blocks

Whether you’re stressed, struggling with deeply ingrained stories and stereotypes, or simply unsure about what you enjoy, there’s a reason desire is so hard to access. Start uncovering why you’re blocked.

Build Positive Sexual Candor

Change comes when our conversations about desire are more kind than critical. Discover the art of sexual candor, plus scripts to help you practice asking for more of what you want.

Create Space for Erotic Possibility

Pleasure doesn’t do well under pressure. Use your newfound knowledge to break out of mundane routines and invite the vibrancy of erotic play back into your life.

WHO IT’S FOR

Couples stuck in a cycle of sexlessness or lack of desire.

Couples Seeking Sexual Connection

Learn how to create open and affirmative spaces where you and your partner can embrace the erotic, explore your desires, and engage in candid conversations about sex and desire.

Partners Stuck in Sexless Routines

Though it may feel risky to think about leaving your familiar routines, doing something risky together often generates excitement. Discover how to compound on this excitement to remove the barriers to sexual satisfaction in the long-term.

Individuals Seeking Understanding

Insecurity and vulnerabilities swirl around our sexual selves. Map your Erotic Blueprint to better understand your sexual history and desire, then start exploring your unique relationship with eroticism.

Esther Perel is the world’s foremost expert on relationships—at home and at work.

She is a renowned psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author known for exploring the intricacies of modern relationships, intimacy, and desire. Through her books, live events, and hit podcast Where Should We Begin?, she’s helped millions navigate the complex terrain of love, sex, and connection.
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In a format that works
High-quality videos
Interactive workbook
Playful prompts and ideas
Conversation catalysts
Course Curriculum

Module:

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Understanding What’s In Your Way

In this module, you'll learn the most common sexual myths and misconceptions, identify the ones you struggle with most, and begin to redefine sex in a helpful, more personalized way.

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Let’s Talk About Sex

In this module, you'll discover how to use sexual candor to have more honest conversations about sex and desire. You’ll also map your Erotic Blueprint and practice using your new communication skills to share the results with your partner.

Module:

3

Opening Up To Possibility

In this module, you’ll pair your new insights into desire and eroticism with willingness, a low-stakes way to invite more erotic encounters into your relationship.

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WHY IT WORKS

This course helps you understand, embrace, and reignite your lost desire.

Holds Space For Your Unique Sexual History

Discover lessons, invitations for self-reflection, and exercises that shed light on your unique blocks and desires.

Focused On What You Can Control

Learn insights, skills, and customizable scripts you can use to engage in new erotic experiences.

Designed To Meet You Where You Are

No matter where you are in your journey with desire, you’ll find plenty of examples and ideas to guide your next step toward a more vibrant erotic life.

What others are saying...

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Tommaso Barba

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JoAnne Silver Jones

I was asked to be an early reviewer for this course. I learned that sex, our sexual experience, is not a singular event, arriving, lingering for some period of time and then over. Our sexual life is always with us, via thoughts, smells, dreams, imagination, touch, sights and other senses. What has changed for me is increased awareness of the notion of the erotic. It is a liberating and expansive notion allowing all manner of pleasures into my daily life. I found this course, with its' focus on enhanced communication and deepening self-awareness, incredibly valuable as a 77 year old women, happily married to my wife for 32 years and knowledgeable about interpersonal communication. It is a rare combination of experiential learning and profound wisdom.

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Aaron and Laura

Bringing Desire Back helped provide us the framework to facilitate a much-needed, ongoing conversation around our issues and hangups, as well as the validation that those issues and hangups are NORMAL. The course was not an overnight fix obviously, and I'm glad we didn't rush through it. There were some tears, dare I say a breakthrough or two, and definitely progress. One small thing that is changing for us because of this course is the diminishment of shame and awkwardness around sex, and that's not a small thing after all. What more could we ask. Thank you Esther, feeling grateful.

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Noor T

These courses are MASTERCLASSES on how we engage with desire in our lives. This is THE WORK. They are not the easiest to move through -- and that is GREAT. You feel yourself growing and changing as you move through each chapter. Esther goes deep, it feels like therapy sessions with the best. Always grateful for her wisdom.

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Molly A.

We were super embarrassed and hesitant to give this a whirl at first- but this course gave my husband and I the script and vocabulary that we really needed to get through the scary parts of talking about sex and intimacy together. The workbook exercises were really thoughtful and practical! As someone who hasn't loved talk therapy in the past, this was a great alternative. Would do the course over and over again for years to come just to keep the conversation pathways open with my partner as we grow and change together in our marriage!

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Charlene

This course allowed me to take down barriers, Esther allows you to see that your sexual relationship, and your relationship to sex are just a product of who you are - thus allowing you to choose what you actually want. Through a well crafted content, this course has helped me untangle some misunderstandings I had accumulated. It's allowed me to reconnect with myself to feel empowered, but also in my relationship to open up doors, that were actually not shut, but that I didn't even know could exist.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Will I get one-on-one advice from Esther?

Bringing Desire Back is a collection of lessons and exercises from Esther and includes a downloadable workbook. She will not be providing real-time therapy or feedback to course participants.

Should I take Bringing Desire Back or Playing with Desire?

Bringing Desire Back is for individuals in relationships and romantic partners experiencing erotic blocks, lack of desire or desire discrepancies, or challenges in sexual communication who want to remove erotic blocks and reignite desire. 

‍Playing with Desire is for individuals in relationships and romantic partners seeking to tap into new erotic possibilities and bring more aliveness, vitality, and spontaneity into the relationship. 

Both courses are designed for people in relationships, though they can be taken with or without a partner.

For the most comprehensive resource, to help spark desire and reignite passionate play, we recommend enrolling in both.

Is this course for me if I’m single or not currently in a relationship?

Though you would likely benefit tremendously from this course, Bringing Desire Back is designed for people in relationships. It can be taken with or without a partner.

If participating with my partner, do we need to register for two courses?

Your purchase of Bringing Desire Back includes access for both you and your partner. We invite you to watch the videos together and share the log-in credentials, if necessary. We are not able to provide a separate log-in. If your partner requires access in a separate account, please have them purchase the course.

If I have Rekindling Desire, should I purchase this course?

As excited as we are to share Bringing Desire Back with you, we believe the materials inside Rekindling Desire are more than enough to help you remove sexual blocks, reignite desire, and discover new erotic possibilities. If you’re interested in learning more about desire and eroticism, we invite you to revisit the materials inside Rekindling Desire rather than purchasing this new course. Click here to log in to your account and access those materials now.

How does this course work? How should I use it?

When you purchase Bringing Desire Back, you’ll get a collection of lessons and exercises from Esther that includes a downloadable workbook. We recommend that you plan a time to watch each video, read andy additional material, and complete the accompanying exercises before moving on to the next lesson. 

If you are completing the course with a partner, we suggest watching the videos together and working through the exercises individually. After you have both completed the exercises, come back together to share your responses and have a conversation about your answers and relationship.

If you treat this course as entertainment to be consumed, you may find it entertaining and pick up some new perspectives along the way. On the other hand, if you treat this course as a guide for engaging in new behaviors, thoughts, and ideas, and you take the time to complete each exercise in the accompanying workbook, it’s our hope that you’ll learn something truly new, deeply interesting, and incredibly valuable that will help you navigate relationships of all kinds for the rest of your life.

How long will the course take?

If you watch all the videos and complete all the exercises, it should take you 5–10 hours to complete the entire course.

How does this course work? How should I use it?

When you purchase Bringing Desire Back, you’ll get a collection of lessons and exercises from Esther that includes a downloadable workbook. We recommend that you plan a time to watch each video, read andy additional material, and complete the accompanying exercises before moving on to the next lesson.

How does this course differ from Esther’s other courses and products?

While many of Esther’s other materials touch on desire and eroticism, Bringing Desire Back is a deep dive into unlocking desire. Through video lessons and a downloadable workbook, you’ll learn skills to help you remove sexual blocks and reignite desire, no matter where you’re starting from.

Does this course address medical issues that block desire?

While Bringing Desire Back is absolutely appropriate and supportive as a supplemental aid, I invite you to work with a trained relational psychotherapist and your medical provider for personalized support. If you wish to expand and enhance your experience of eroticism in its many forms (including the non-sexual), this course will help you remove the shame and stigma that often blocks erotic satisfaction and reignite desire. Though I briefly acknowledge the many medical issues that may negatively influence desire in this course, Bringing Desire Back is not designed to diagnose or treat medical conditions.

Start enhancing your erotic relationships today.

If you’re feeling stuck in a sexual rut in your relationship, this course is for you.
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The Desire Bundle

Get both Bringing Desire Back and Playing with Desire and gain the skills to not only address desire discrepancies but also reignite desire and explore new erotic possibilities.

Understand, communicate, and explore your sexual needs
Spark honest and constructive conversations about sex and desire
Designed to reignite curiosity, intimacy, and deeper connection in your sex life
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