Welcome to our newest member, Dr. Sharon Williams Prahl, DC. Sharon helps holistic-minded people overcome chronic health limitations and simultaneously improve their longevity through simple daily actions. You can find Sharon at: Health Upgrader- skool.com/health-upgrader Please join me in giving Sharon, our newest Portal Pal member, a warm Sacred Writing welcome.

Sometimes an idea arrives before you know what to do with it. A sentence. A memory. A question. Something someone says that remains with you. Our instinct can be to figure it out immediately. Where does this belong? What am I supposed to do with it? Is it even worth keeping? But not everything needs to make sense when it first arrives. Write it down. Give it somewhere to live. You may come back tomorrow, next month, or six months from now and suddenly recognize why it mattered. Skylie Cash writes about this in her book, Timelines of My Future. Sometimes we can look back at something we wrote and realize it wasn't meant for that moment. We were writing something we would understand later. Think of something you've almost dismissed because you didn't know where it belonged or what would come from it. Write down what you know about it right now. What changes when you trust that your interest in it is reason enough to keep listening?

You don't become an authority because you finally write the book, give the talk, or find the right words. Your authority already exists through everything you've lived, learned, and come to know. What you create gives that authority a form someone else can receive. What do you know now that someone else may need to receive?

Your body of work doesn't begin when you sit down to create it. It already exists in fragments. A paragraph you wrote three years ago. A list of quotes, ideas, and random entries in Notes. A workshop you taught once. A question that keeps surfacing in client conversations. An unfinished chapter hidden on your Google Drive. Something you wrote in a journal that later became part of your methodology. A conversation that inspired you or changed how you think. An idea that became a framework you've been refining. Before creating more, look at what you've already created. Then bring it into your Sacred Writing practice. Choose one fragment that still feels alive and begin there. What does it want to become?

Hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend. Today's gratitude belongs.to my best friends and another weekend on their ranch for end-of-summer R&R and fun.