Wildheart Club | the journey towards trust

Podcast notes and journal prompts for S10E2

Welcome to your weekly edition of Wildheart Club! Every Wednesday afternoon throughout the current season of the podcast, we’ll be sharing notes to accompany our most recent conversation - alongside journal prompts to deepen your exploration of the word and themes we chat about.

This post relates to Season 10, Episode 2: Trust. We recommend listening to the episode first, before exploring the notes and prompts below.

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This week’s notes

Why is the idea of trust so relevant right now?

Last episode we talked about emergence: why this is relevant at this time of year, and how it’s a slow and gentle process that doesn’t necessarily bring visible growth immediately. Trust therefore seems like a natural follow-on topic, as the early spring call to emerge requires us to put ‘blind faith’ in the unfurling of the vision we’re moving towards for the rest of the year.

We also touched last week on the way in which emerging can feel vulnerable and precarious, and requires a sense of safety. This brings in the theme of trust in another way, as we learn to believe in ourselves and our own judgements. While moving towards action, we are asked to trust in many things: our ability to bring our plans and ideas to life, our dedication to following the path we’ve set out on (or to finding the path if we’re still searching), and our capacity to be the version of ourselves that we want to be. At the same time, we may also find ourselves assessing who we can trust around us to receive our evolving selves and/or our unfolding plans and ideas with care, tenderness and acceptance.

More generally, spring as a whole season is a time of hope, which is closely intertwined with trust. We hope that the seeds we planted last year will grow (or re-grow) this year, just as we hope that the seeds we’re planting now will come to something later in the cycle. The uncertainty of how things will turn out - what will come to fruition, what might stay dormant - requires a deep sense of trust as we take each small step forward.