Is Play the antidote to perfectionism?

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

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. 

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

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

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

This week we are back in the blanket fort and Lucie is sharing part two 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
• Why Community matters so much 
• How we can make play an approach to life rather than something we add on top of it
• The power of defining our own version of growing up and living by that definition

Find out more about Almost Grown...Up at www.lucielincoln.com

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 

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 

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