Almost Grown...Up

We are back in the blanket fort for the final episode of Season Three. And to close out the season Lucie explores the idea of what growing up really means.  Sharing her thoughts on why we need permission to define 'grown-upping' for ourselves along with guests from across the season sharing their definition of what a grown up is.  Think of it as one big permission slip to build your own definition growning up, the one that feels good to you.  In this episode, we cover:  Why we should define growing up for ourselves  Many different definitions of what it is to be a grown up  Questions to explore in 2024 I would love to hear what your definition of growing up is. Let me know in the spotify Q&A. 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  

In this episode, we kick off a new series on the Almost Grown...Up Podcast: The Wonder Sessions with Annie. Every quarter Lucie and Annie Yi (storyteller, artist, animal enthusiast and, episode 61 guest) are getting together to discuss wonder and how we can add more of it into our grown upping experience.  This is the first of more conversations to come, all around how we discover more wonder as we grow.  In this episode, we cover:  What wonder we have discovered recently  Questions for the year Ideas for rituals that prompt wonder  How to find wonder in the new year We would love to hear what wonder rituals you are going to introduce? Let us know in the Spotify Q&A. Find out more about Almost Grown...Up at www.lucielincoln.com You can find out more about Annie through her website, or her instagram.  Get more thoughts on Substack or stay in touch on Instagram or Tik Tok  

This week as part of the celebration of launching her new Skillshare course Lucie shares an episode on how to get into creative flow for 2024. Both the course and episode are geared around getting you unstuck, helping you solve problems and helping you jumpstart some creativity.  You can take the course for free and get access to skillshare for a month for free here.  If you are already a skillshare member you can find the course here. 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

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. 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

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 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

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  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

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  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

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 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

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. Find out more about Almost Grown...Up at www.lucielincoln.com  Or stay in touch on Instagram or Tik Tok

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. Find out more about Almost Grown...Up at www.lucielincoln.com  Or stay in touch on Instagram or Tik Tok

This week we are back in the blanketfort with an interview episode to explore how we can bring more play and creativity to the work we do and the way we work to change the world. Lucie is joined by activist and community organiser Matteo De Vos to discuss the role of play in community organising and making change. Matteo cares deeply and seriously about making his work as an activist as playful, joyful and creative as possible. As a theatre improviser and a community organizer for Roots (part of Greenpeace organisation), he uses creative storytelling to fight for environmental and social justice. He is also the host of the For Food's Sake podcast and the Why We Organize podcast. You can find out more about Roots here, or listen to For Food's Sake or Why We Organize.  Find out more about Almost Grown...Up at www.lucielincoln.com  Or stay in touch on Instagram or Tik Tok

Do you ever have this feeling of being late to the party, or having missed the boat with something you wanted in your life? Today we are back in the blanket fort to discuss our relationship to time as we grow up and why it's ok to be a late bloomer, and how it can help us to see life as something that is constantly blooming at different times.  Find out more about Almost Grown...Up at www.lucielincoln.com  Or stay in touch on Instagram or Tik Tok    

We are finishing the month with one last look and being gentle. This time we explore how we find gentleness in the moment of discomfort, why it matters and a few strategies to step into gentleness when we are feeling that icky discomfort feeling.  Find out more about Almost Grown...Up at www.lucielincoln.com  Or stay in touch on Instagram or Tik Tok

This week we are back in the Blanket Fort talking again about being gentle. And this time we explore gentleness in general. Why we should consider gentleness a core tool for our adulting toolkit and how we can bring more of it into our lives and our approach to growing.  Find out more about Almost Grown...Up at www.lucielincoln.com  Or stay in touch on Instagram or Tik Tok

This week we are back in the blanketfort to talk about how we can approach growing up with a bit of gentleness. In Part One, we are looking at how we re-orient our relationship with time by allowing ourselves to linger a bit more. Lucie explores the lost art of lingering that we seemed to let go of when we all decided to become adults and shares some tips and experiments you can do to add a little extra pause to your day.  Find out more about Almost Grown...Up at www.lucielincoln.com  Or stay in touch on Instagram or Tik Tok

Welcome back to the blanket fort and after an August of play projects we are back with full interview episodes. This week I am delighted to be speaking to Annie Yi a storyteller, artist, and animal enthusiast. She tells stories that help people see themselves and their place in the world in a new light.  Over the episode we discuss how to access states of wonder, what prevents us from feeling wonder and how we can cultivate a practice of wonder to turn it from something that happens once in a while to a regular part of our life.  Annie also shares her wisdom on how we shift perspective and look again at things we think we know or are scared we don't understand.  In the episode, we discuss the painting. - Women with Sunflower by Mary Cassatt you can find an image of that painting here.  You can find out more about Annie through her website, or her instagram.  Find out more about Almost Grown...Up at www.lucielincoln.com  Or stay in touch on Instagram or Tik Tok  

Welcome to the Almost Grown...Up Summer Series - If you are in the northern hemisphere we are in full-on summer season now and to help boost some playfulness that naturally comes with the longer days and more relaxed schedules I decided this August instead of our usual podcast episodes we are going to have 4 weeks of play projects.   Each week I will share a mini-episode that will give you a  play project to complete. So we all get to practice being a little more playful every week and see what comes out of it.    This is the final week and I can't wait to hear how you have found the challenges. Let me know which has been your favourite.  Find out more about Almost Grown...Up at www.lucielincoln.com  Or stay in touch on Instagram or Tik Tok

Welcome to the Almost Grown...Up Summer Series - If you are in the northern hemisphere we are in full-on summer season now and to help boost some playfulness that naturally comes with the longer days and more relaxed schedules I decided this August instead of our usual podcast episodes we are going to have 4 weeks of play projects.   Each week I will share a mini-episode that will give you a  play project to complete. So we all get to practice being a little more playful every week and see what comes out of it.    This is week three and I can't wait to hear what you think of the challenges so far.  Find out more about Almost Grown...Up at www.lucielincoln.com  Or stay in touch on Instagram or Tik Tok

Welcome to the Almost Grown...Up Summer Series - If you are in the northern hemisphere we are in full-on summer season now and to help boost some playfulness that naturally comes with the longer days and more relaxed schedules I decided this August instead of our usual podcast episodes we are going to have 4 weeks of play projects.   Each week I will share a mini-episode that will give you a  play project to complete. So we all get to practice being a little more playful every week and see what comes out of it.    This is week two and I can't wait to hear what you think of the challenges!   Find out more about Almost Grown...Up at www.lucielincoln.com  Or stay in touch on Instagram or Tik Tok