Wildheart Club | What is it to feel alive?

Podcast notes and journal prompts for S11E8

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 8: Alive. 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 aliveness so relevant right now?

As we’ve been discussing throughout June, this midsummer period represents the peak of the year, when seasonal energy is at its height and the wild world is visibly most vibrant. It’s a time when many of us can feel ‘recharged’ or ‘brought back to life’ by the sun (though of course this isn’t the case for everyone), so the idea of aliveness feels very present - especially as during this phase we can feel more aware of our bodies and our physical sense of self, for many reasons.

Aliveness is also a word we use all the time in our work at the Academy to describe the felt experience of living more wildly, and we haven’t talked about it in depth before so now feels like a good time to do so!