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Wonderstruck® is a podcast about awe and wonder that includes the profoundly moving, the humbling, and the uncanny. Hosted by psychologist, yoga teacher, and seeker Elizabeth Rovere, it explores experiences that bring us to the very edges of what we can explain, and beyond.


Join us every month for conversations with scientists and shamans, philosophers and poets, mystics and experiencers. We ask what we can learn from those moments that often lack explanations. We ask deeper questions about consciousness, being, and reality. We look at mystery not as something to solve, but as a place where transformation can occur. And along the way, we glimpse a world wilder, stranger, and more Real than we ever imagined.


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  • 31: Mystic Poet Chelan Harkin on Poetry, Prayer and Unlocking Creative Flow

    31: Mystic Poet Chelan Harkin on Poetry, Prayer and Unlocking Creative Flow
    Mar 3 2026

    Mystic poet Chelan Harkin doesn't write poems, she transmits them. At 21, after giving herself permission to write a "bad poem" every day, a creative channel cracked open and poems have flowed through her ever since.


    Her work has drawn comparisons to Rumi, Hafiz and Khalil Gibran. Poets whose words slip beneath the thinking mind to reach something deeper, older and more alive within us.


    Celebrating World Poetry Day this month, this episode features Chelan speaking with Wonderstruck's Elizabeth Rovere about:

    ✦ How a Hafiz poem she heard at 17 unlocked her heart and set her entire path in motion

    ✦ The "bad poem experiment" and how permission to fail became the key to creative flow

    ✦ How praying to her favourite dead poets led to a synchronicity that changed everything

    ✦ How our deepest fears, when met with consciousness, can transform into our strongest allies

    ✦ The extraordinary story behind her book The Prophetess which stands in conversation with Gibran’s The Prophet


    This is a conversation for anyone who has suspected that the sacred isn’t elsewhere, but closer, more available and more alive than we ever dared to believe.


    00:00:00 Introduction

    00:07:06 The Poem That Changed Everything

    00:13:47 The "Bad Poem Experiment"

    00:19:22 Say Wow: The Poem That Went Viral

    00:23:44 Praying To Her Favourite Dead Poets

    00:30:50 The Meaning Of Authentic Service

    00:35:55 Suffering and Our Great Cocoon

    00:39:21 Writing The Prophetess

    00:43:33 Meeting Hajjar Gibran

    00:51:53 Fear as a Life Force

    00:58:32 Closing Reflections


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    Website: https://chelanharkinpoetry.com/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chelanharkin/

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chani.harkin

    Find all Chelan's books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B08PL55XMD


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    59 min
  • 30: Daoist Teacher George Thompson on What Tai Chi Taught Him About Anxiety

    30: Daoist Teacher George Thompson on What Tai Chi Taught Him About Anxiety
    Feb 3 2026
    Can a mountain teach us how to live in peace? In his early twenties, George Thompson was living with intense anxiety and a deep sense of meaninglessness. His body carried constant tension, and the voice in his head told him that he was not good enough. That crisis became the catalyst for a decision that would change the direction of his life.George travelled alone to China’s sacred Wudang Mountains, the birthplace of Tai Chi and a centre of Daoist (Taoist) practice for centuries. There, immersed in mountains, monasteries, and daily practice, he encountered Tai Chi. In this conversation, George and Wonderstruck’s Elizabeth Rovere explore:✦ Tai Chi as a martial art and moving meditation: powerful, peaceful, and beautiful✦ Balance as something dynamic that allows you to hold your centre in the midst of change✦ The inner critic (“the Underminer”) and learning not to identify with the story it tells✦ Why peace can’t be learned, but arises through presence and awareness✦ The universal language of wonder and aweThis episode reminds us to look at what lies beneath the thinking mind, and to discover, as George puts it, that balance is possible.Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction00:05:49 Journey to the Wudang Mountains00:10:22 Finding Balance Through Tai Chi00:18:14 Spirituality as a Form of Activism00:24:45 Hope & The Vinegar Metaphor00:29:58 Love, Connection & Fierce Compassion00:35:29 Is Eminem Daoist?00:42:04 Awe and Wonder Predates Language00:46:27 Nature, AI, and the Technology Continuum00:49:42 Why Are We Here? Follow George:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@George-Thompson The Subtle Art of Losing Yourself: https://youtu.be/9KArWcMldPM?si=fHt4OPWFb8-zSuAx Balance is Possible: https://www.balanceispossible.com/ Taoist Wellness Community: https://www.taoistwellness.online/community Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/george.thompson._/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@george.thompson_Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/georgethompson.uk Follow Wonderstruck:Website: https://wonderstruck.orgSubstack: https://newsletter.wonderstruck.orgYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@wonderstruckpodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/wonderstruckpod/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wonderstruckpod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wonderstruckpod Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wonderstruck/id1671879661 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6fS5boWGwYTShddG7SKlVw Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    54 min
  • 29: Psychoanalyst Macario Giraldo on How the Unconscious Shapes Our Lives

    29: Psychoanalyst Macario Giraldo on How the Unconscious Shapes Our Lives
    Jan 6 2026

    From a coffee farm in rural Colombia to the psychoanalytic couch, Macario Giraldo has spent his life listening for the quiet forces that shape a human life: language, loss, desire, and love.


    At the age of ten, Macario left his family to join the La Salle Christian Brothers, a Catholic religious order that would become his home for the next twenty-five years. Beneath the structure of faith and vocation, an early sense of separation endured. Over time, it found expression as a desire for something he had long deferred: a family of his own.


    A Fulbright scholarship brought Macario to Washington, D.C. It was here that he received a rare dispensation from the Church to leave the brotherhood and encountered psychology and the work of Jacques Lacan, which would shape the rest of his analytic life.


    In dialogue with Colette Soler, an analysand of Lacan, as well as clinicians Marianne Goldberger and Hugh Mullan, Macario developed a distinctive approach to group therapy informed by Lacanian psychoanalysis. In his work, he listens not only to what is said, but to what stirs between people: the unconscious processes that emerge in groups, including conflict, desire, identification, and shared symbolic history.


    In this episode, we explore:

    ✦ Cause and triggers

    ✦ Group therapy as a modern ritual

    ✦ Lacanian thinking beyond the individual

    ✦ The fantasy of complete satisfaction

    ✦ Listening as a psychological practice

    ✦ The journey to become your own friend


    Macario invites us to wonder about the desires that take shape in relation to others, the limits of certainty, and how, over a lifetime, we might learn to live more truthfully with ourselves and with one another


    Chapters

    0:00:00 Introduction

    0:03:21 Picasso and the Desire of Others

    0:08:27 Presence, Absence, and the Fort-Da Game

    0:15:18 From Coffee Farm to the Christian Brothers

    0:18:53 Discovering Jacques Lacan

    0:24:49 Jouissance: The Pursuit and Crisis of Desire

    0:30:34 The Unexplored Gold Mine of Group Therapy

    0:38:34 The Power of Listening

    0:41:35 Anxiety is an Index of the Real

    0:48:27 Faith after Dogma

    0:55:35 The Journey to Become Your Own Friend

    0:58:13 Gardens, Love, and Wonder: The Closing Note


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