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THE INHERITED DREAM DECODER

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Cynthia Strickland
May 08, 2026
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Song of the Day: I Am Light, India.Arie, 2013.

I am not the things my family did. I am not the voices in my head. I am not the pieces of the brokenness inside. India.Arie wrote that before most of us had language for what we were carrying.

You showed up today. That means something. It means part of you already knows the answer to yesterday’s question. Whose validation are you still chasing? And it is sitting in your chest a little heavier than you expected.

Good. That is the work starting.

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