How to Build a Body of Work
You feel it — the pull to create something original, to teach from lived experience, and to speak in a voice that is undeniably your own.
That instinct — the quiet urge to give shape to what you’ve learned — is the beginning of a body of work.
The problem is that most of us imagine a body of work as something we build after we’ve become who we’re meant to be. We treat it like proof of arrival — as though we’ll reach some mythical point of clarity, certainty, and authority, and then finally begin.
But body of work isn’t the result of becoming. It’s how you become.
Your body of work doesn’t emerge from waiting until you’re ready. It’s built through attention, devotion, and the discipline to make what you find material — right now, before you feel ready.
Why Most People Never Build a Body of Work
Most wellness professionals never begin — not because they lack ideas, talent, or insight, but because they’re waiting.
They wait to feel ready, to feel certain, to feel they’ve arrived, but readiness is an illusion. It doesn’t come before the work—it comes through it.
A body of work is not built from seeking, it’s built from expression. From capturing the patterns you notice, shaping what you’ve learned, and transmitting it into the field.
Without expression, everything you’ve wrestled with stays inside you — unspoken, unseen, and eventually forgotten.
Start Before You Feel Ready
The biggest mistake wellness professionals make is imagining they’ll “build it backwards.”
They think they’ll arrive at some future point of clarity and then construct the body of work to prove it. But that process doesn’t exist.
Readiness doesn’t come before the work — it comes through it.
When you start, something else happens:
You see yourself more clearly.
You capture more accurately.
You gather real evidence of who you are and what you’re here to do.
Your body of work becomes a mirror. It reflects you back to yourself. It tracks your becoming in real time. And it keeps you aligned with how your life is actually unfolding — not the way you imagined it would.
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Your Body of Work Is Built Through Expression
From the moment you begin to live awake — making choices consciously, seeing your patterns, tracking your thoughts — you’re already in relationship with your life’s work.
The question is: are you giving it form?
If not, your insights, stories, and breakthroughs evaporate. They never leave your body.
A body of work is simply the residue of a life lived with attention. It’s about making something visible from what’s been invisible — leaving traces of yourself behind.
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Expression Is Transmission
One of the quiet gifts of writing a newsletter is that every issue asks me to report from inside myself:
What am I wrestling with? What am I learning? What feels true right now?
Over time, these expressions stack into evidence. They show me who I’ve been, who I’m becoming, and what questions I’ve been living inside.
The same thing happens for participants in The Program when they do the daily visibility practice. After months of recording daily videos, they begin to know more of who they are through witnessing themselves on video.
That’s the real power of expression:
It’s not about producing content. It’s about seeing yourself and being seen. It’s about leaving more of yourself behind.
Why Waiting Kills the Work
A body of work doesn’t come from certainty, it comes from devotion — the daily willingness to capture, shape, and share the truth as it moves through you.
If you’re not expressing, you’re avoiding and if you avoid long enough, the work dies with you.
How to Begin Building Your Body of Work Today
Start small:
Write down one insight from your lived experience.
Share a single story that shaped you.
Record a 60-second voice note about what’s true for you right now.
Your body of work is already inside you. The question is: Will you give it form?
Ready to Start Building Your Body of Work?
Join our free 5-day training for wellness and transformation professionals to:
Stop waiting to feel “ready”
Express your voice with more clarity and confidence
Turn lived experience into meaningful expression
Begin creating your body of work today
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Your body of work is the collection of ideas, stories, and expressions that reflect your lived experience and transmit your unique wisdom into the world.
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Start expressing what you’re learning now. Don’t wait for arrival. Your body of work emerges through devotion, experimentation, and consistency.
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Because they wait to feel ready. But readiness doesn’t come before the work — it comes through it.