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🌿 A Gentle Beginning
Every story has a beginning.
Not always a clear one—not a headline or a chapter title—
but a moment.
A glance. A feeling. A word you weren’t meant to hear.
That was the first page of your money story.
Maybe it came in a grocery store line.
Or during an argument in hushed tones.
Maybe it felt like pride.
Maybe it felt like shame.
We don’t begin this journey by fixing anything.
We begin by noticing.
By turning toward the truth of what was—so we can soften what still lingers.
💫 An Inherited Script
Money is rarely taught directly.
It’s passed down in looks, silences, the mood that filled the room when the bills came.
Your first money story wasn’t really yours.
It belonged to the people who raised you, the systems that shaped them,
and the stories they never had the safety to question.
But you have that safety now.
You are allowed to rewrite the script.
🕯 Try This
Take a few minutes today to sit with this question:
What is your earliest memory of money?
What happened? Who was there?
How did it feel in your body—then? And now?
You don’t need to make sense of it.
You don’t need to change it.
You just need to witness it.
This is the beginning of healing: not analysis, but presence.
🌙 Parting Thought
Before you could count coins or earn a cent,
you learned how money made people feel.
That was your inheritance.
But it doesn’t have to be your legacy.
You are the author now.
And this is your first page.
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The Soft Wealth
