Hello and welcome to the Sparkle Stories

podcast. This is Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories and I'm excited today to bring you our

third special episode with Carrie Conti PhD. Carrie is a friend and a mentor and

an inspirer of many many things at Sparkle Stories. She's a teacher and a

coach and I can't recommend her work on parenting enough. So wonder is our

theme for July and this is a gold mine of a conversation. We talk about so many ways that

wonder can bring goodness to our lives whether that's more connection, more joy, more peace, more

awe. So listen in, the conversation is geared to parents and adults but it's perfectly fine for

children to listen to. So I hope you enjoy it. Hello, Carrie Conti. Welcome to our third conversation.

In this series of podcast episodes in which we are bringing value to parents in the

Sparkle Stories community. I'm so glad you're here. It's so good to see you. So glad to be here. I

love this time with you. Thank you. Same. I come away so inspired. So today our topic is Wonder

which I know is one of your very faves and it's mine too. It's a value. It's Sparkle Stories. So

can we start our conversation by defining wonder like how do you define how do you describe it?

So wonder to me is this sense of awe, this presence and awareness and celebration and appreciation

and delight in everything from, you know, a leaf to the universe. Like that's how wonderful

this universe is that there's so much to be in awe of. Well actually let me say a few things.

I'm gonna, I'm gonna say oh my gosh yes and there was something else that was opening in me as

you were talking. It also it's like I'm gonna use the word awakening. That's a strong word. It like

wakes you up to me. It wakes me up. It starts with a small thing usually and then suddenly there's

this great opening and waking up to what's around me and wonders like a portal like the small

wonder can become the big wonder. Oh I love that. You follow me? Yes as you were talking I was like

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