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🌿 A Gentle Beginning
Before you ever touched money, you inherited a story about it.
Maybe it was told in whispered fears.
Maybe it lived in calloused hands and unpaid rest.
Maybe it showed up as martyrdom, as silence, as fierce independence.
These are ancestral echoes.
Patterns passed down through generations—not because they were true,
but because someone needed them to survive.
And now, dear one… you get to choose.
💫 You Come From Survivors
Someone in your line learned how to stretch a dollar until it sang.
Someone else learned to never ask for help.
Maybe there were dreams traded for security.
Or security traded for freedom.
You come from people who made hard choices.
Who kept going, even when the world told them to stop.
There is beauty in that. And pain, too.
You’re not here to carry it all.
You’re here to thank it, release it, and write a new way forward.
🕯 Try This
Take a moment to reflect:
What did your family model about money, success, or survival?
Who had the power? Who made the decisions?
What sacrifices were normalized? What emotions were off-limits?
Then ask:
What pattern do I honor—but no longer wish to carry?
What new legacy do I feel called to create, gently, from here?
Let this be a love letter to where you come from—
and a declaration of where you’re going.
🌙 Parting Thought
You do not have to carry their burden to honor their name.
You can choose softness, rest, joy—and still belong to your lineage.
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The Soft Wealth
