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THE BUCK STOPS HERE

awarded for healing and transforming ancestral trauma

The Buck Stops Here’s Message:

There are those brave souls among us who incarnate to help heal painful and limiting ancestral patterns.

The kinds of wounds that have shown up generation after generation, that seem to ask each generation, 

“Can you fix this? You’ll have to endure it first in order to transform it,

but then you can set everybody free.”

So, yes, there are those brave souls among us who volunteer to do this legacy work for themselves, their ancestors and on behalf of the beloved future generations.

And if you understood anything I just said,

you’re probably one of them.

And for the record, the image I reprinted here is not my original work.  It was painted by my paternal Great-Grandmother, as a young girl. 

Before I reimagined a part of her original painting as a Soul Success Medal, an initial attempt at restoration had been made by my paternal grandfather.

Yet, people were confused and disappointed by his choice of putting in these awkward, chunky clouds at the top.

They thought he made it worse.

I never met him, but from what I gather, he was not a man keen on explaining himself.

When it was given to me, I was asked to restore it in a way more harmonious to her original vision.

I gave it my best try.

And when I did, I discovered what those awkward, chunky clouds were all about.

It wasn’t just oil paint.

It was oil paint over spackle.

There were actual holes ripped in the canvas and he did his best to keep the painting together.

Which I do believe is what he did within his own heart when he was just a little kid and the original artist, his mother, died unexpectedly. He tried to cover up the holes and keep what part of her he did have intact.

And he did it in a way only a farmer, who was also an artist, could.

He used the tools he had and worked within that capacity, which is really all any of us can do.

I had different tools.

And many, many years later, I was able to restore the painting completely, with a new vision and life of its own. And when I did, I realized as much as I restored the painting, it restored me, too.

I do believe it was my job to declare: The Buck Stops Here.

And for all of you who have done the same…Good Job.

If you have earned or are earning this Soul Success Medal for Humanity, please place your hand on your heart and claim it for yourself.

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