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This week we are exploring the wonder of kindness and the magic of wondering at the kindness of human kind. 

Today Lucie dives into the theme of moral beauty as a bucket of Wonder and explores the topic of kindness in the world today along with sharing some kindness rituals and ideas for this end of year season. 

In this episode you will learn 

• What is so special about kindness
• How it prompts wonder 
• Why Kindness is contagious 
• How we can add more feelings of wonder through kindness
• And some ideas for how we can be kind to ourselves and others.

Books mentioned: 

Awe  - Dacher Keltner

Human Kind - Rutger Bergman

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This week we dive into the power of curiosity. Often when we see the Wonder in things we feel more curious about the world and ourselves. So it feels only right that curiosity about things would prompt wonder as well. 

Today Lucie dives into why curiosity is such a great tool and how it can help us to find wonder on a regular basis. 

Get practical rituals and ideas of how you can make curiosity a habit.

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This week we are diving into four top tips to help you add more play to your life in 2024. In the episode, Lucie shares her favourite ways to play and her approach to making play a part of the way we live rather than something we add on top. 

In this episode, we cover:

• How to make time for play in your life
• How to use play as a tool for change 
• How to find ways to play every day 

I would love to hear from you how you plan to play more in 2024! Leave me a note in the Q&A.

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As we arrive in the last month of the year it's time to settle down in the blanket fort and reflect on what we have learnt, achieved and how we have grown this year. In this episode Lucie shares her favourite way to reflect on the year along with some questions you can ask yourself to chart your own growth in 2023

In this episode, we cover:

• How to turn this reflection into a ritual
• Powerful questions to ask to help you see how you have grown 
• Some questions to help you look into the future and shape 2024

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This week we are back in the blanket fort and Lucie is sharing part one of her key takeaways from Season 3 of Almost Grown...Up.

In this episode, we cover:

• Her key takeaways and lessons learned from guests across the series
• The power of going slow 
• How to tap into wonder
• The importance of our senses
• Why it's ok to be a late bloomer 

In this episode, Lucie talks about past episodes of Almost Grown...Up including 

Episode 68  - Expanding our experience of the world with Blythe King

Episode 62 - Wonder is a Practice with Annie Yi

Episode 47 - Ritual, Wonder and Exploration with Alice Spadaro

Episode 43 - How Play can heal us with Izzy Savege 

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This week we are back in the blanket fort and Lucie is sharing why it's natural that we are feeling tired as we start to move towards the end of the year, and what we can do to add some fresh energy into our everyday and feel a little bit more capable of being adults in the world.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why Adulting can feel exhausting sometimes 
• The power of taking a moment to reset 
• 5 Key ways to reset over the next few weeks 

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This week we are back in the blanket fort and Lucie is sharing three lessons she wished she had learnt sooner in her adulting journey. 

In this episode, we cover:

• The power of community and why we need to grow up alongside other people 
• How we can learn to rest and why it matters 
• Why Failure isn't something you should avoid and how to change your perspective on making mistakes

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This week we are back in the blanket fort talking about how we can handle the feelings of overwhelm and despair that you might be feeling when you see conflict and suffering in the world. It can be difficult as a grown-up to know what you can do to make a difference and how to use your responsibility and privilege to help others. In this episode, Lucie shares some thoughts on how she approaches these situations and what helps her and some insight from past guests on how they approach making a difference in the world.   Find out more about Almost Grown...Up at www.lucielincoln.com   Get more thoughts on Substack or stay in touch on Instagram or Tik Tok

Hey Team! We are back in the blanket fort this week with a shorter episode to talk about the challenge of growing up and making the 'big decisions' of adulting. Lucie shares insights on a recent big decision she has made, and how it has helped shape the way she sees these choice points in our lives. 

If you want to read the whole Cheryl Strayed advice answer that Lucie quotes from you can find that here.

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This week we are back in the blanket fort exploring the power of the sense to help us expand our experience of the world and develop the definition we want for growing up. Today Lucie is in conversation with artist, educator and Zen Buddhist Blythe King. And across the episode they dive into the power of our senses, how we can tap into them more, what relooking at the familiar can offer us and how that helps us move into spaces of wondering and change. This is one huge permission slip to not know and just let yourself experience! I hope you enjoy. 

You can find out more about Blythe and her work here, or here. 

You can also listen to her awesome Creative Mornings Talk here. 

If you want to listen to the Wonder podcast Lucie mentions at the start you can do that here.

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