Wildheart Club | What does it mean to thrive?

Podcast notes and journal prompts for S11E3

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 11, Episode 3: Thrive. 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 thriving so relevant right now?

The period from Beltane to the Summer Solstice is a time of high solar energy, fullness, and vitality. Our guiding word for June here at The Wild Academy is ‘flourish’ (which we previously explored in S7E1) so the related concept of thriving feels relevant to explore as we start to look ahead to next month.

Summer also tends to be seen as the season of ‘living your best life’ - this narrative can be quite challenging for many reasons, so we wondered if there might be a better, more accessible way to think about thriving that can help us to ‘make the most’ of this time of year without all the expectations, pressure and comparison.