Unharmable with TJ Woodward

In Season 3, Episode 5 of Unharmable, TJ Woodward sits down with Dr. Krista Gilbert, PhD, longtime friend, mentor, therapist, executive, and former clinical leader, to explore what it means to discover the “unharmed” place within—the part of us that remains whole, loving, and capable even in the midst of trauma, suffering, uncertainty, and profound life change.

TJ and Krista reflect on their shared history, including the difficult experiences that first brought them together in the treatment world, and how those experiences ultimately revealed something deeper about healing, leadership, purpose, and human potential.

Rather than asking, “What’s wrong with me?”, this conversation invites us to ask a different question: “What is still true about me beneath everything I’ve experienced?”

Together, TJ and Krista explore:

• The brokenness paradigm and why so much of modern culture is built around fixing what we believe is wrong with us
• The concept of an “unharmed” or whole place within that remains untouched by our circumstances
• Krista’s childhood experience of recognizing an inner sense that there was always a path forward
• TJ’s own childhood awareness of love, followed by the experience of forgetting that knowing
• How trauma, addiction, shame, and cultural conditioning can cause us to believe we are broken, unlovable, or not enough
• The difference between grit and the deeper capacity to keep moving from a place of inner knowing
• Why difficult experiences can burn away identities and beliefs that were never truly who we are
• Limiting beliefs, self-concepts, and the question: “Who do you think you are?”
• The importance of purpose, mission, and remembering who we have come here to be
• Leadership, executive coaching, and the transformative power of seeing someone's potential when they have temporarily lost sight of it
• Why we need one another as mirrors, witnesses, mentors, friends, and sources of connection
• The relationship between suffering and joy, and why expanding our capacity to experience pain can also expand our capacity for joy
• The power of leaning into pain instead of running from it
• Equanimity—maintaining balance and presence in the midst of uncertainty, stress, and change
• How reconnecting with our essential wholeness can create a different kind of energy, purpose, leadership, and freedom

This is a conversation about healing without defining ourselves by what needs to be healed—and about discovering the possibility that beneath the layers of conditioning, fear, trauma, identity, and limitation, something whole has been there all along.

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For more on Dr. Krista Gilbert,: https://www.growingedgebh.com

In Season 3, Episode 4 of Unharmable, TJ Woodward sits down with physician, chronic pain expert, and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Mel Pohl for a deep conversation about what happens when we stop treating people as broken and start seeing the possibility within them.

TJ and Dr. Pohl explore the powerful intersection of trauma, addiction, chronic pain, shame, nervous-system regulation, and healing—and why true recovery may require us to move beyond purely cognitive approaches.

Dr. Pohl shares how his own work has evolved from a traditional, symptom-focused medical model toward a more holistic understanding of healing that incorporates the body, nervous system, emotions, connection, and safety.

Together, TJ and Mel challenge the idea that healing is simply about eliminating symptoms or fixing what's wrong. Instead, they explore what becomes possible when we become curious about the underlying experiences that created our survival strategies in the first place.

In this episode, they explore:

• Why shame doesn't heal shame and how self-compassion can become an antidote.
• The shift from seeing people through a pathology lens to seeing them through a possibility lens.
• Why healing trauma isn't simply about talking through what happened.
• The critical role that safety and nervous-system regulation play in recovery.
• How the nervous system continually evaluates whether we are safe or unsafe.
• Why chronic pain is real and how the brain and nervous system influence the experience of pain.
• The surprising connection between trauma, addiction, and chronic pain.
• How behaviors and substances can become brilliant survival strategies that eventually stop serving us.
• Why some people can actually find safety frightening when they've spent their lives in survival mode.
• The importance of presence, connection, and being truly seen and heard.
• How childhood experiences can shape unconscious beliefs and patterns later in life.
• The difference between being triggered by something external and understanding what has been activated internally.
• TJ's four-step process for transforming survival strategies through gratitude, awareness, and discovering what we truly desire.
• Dr. Pohl's “Notice, Name, Nurture” framework.
• Why meaningful change comes from moving toward what we want, rather than simply trying to escape what we don't want.
• How science and spirituality may be converging around a more expansive understanding of healing.

At its heart, this conversation asks a profound question:

What if the things we've spent our lives trying to get rid of aren't evidence that we're broken—but brilliant strategies that once helped us survive?

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For more on Dr. Mel Pohl: https://www.drmelpohl.com

In Season 3, Episode 3 of Unharmable, TJ Woodward sits down with Kim Stanwood Terranova, author of The Technology of Intention, for a deeply expansive conversation about conscious creation, spiritual growth, healing, and the power of the words we use every day.

TJ and Kim explore how seemingly ordinary words like “should,” “but,” “how,” “right,” and “wrong” can reinforce judgment, limitation, and separation—and what becomes possible when we shift into curiosity, intention, allowance, and conscious listening.

The conversation goes far beyond manifestation. Together, TJ and Kim explore what it means to trust our “inner technology,” become divine listeners, release the need to control outcomes, and recognize that we are not broken—we are continually becoming more of who we truly are.

In this episode, they explore:

• Why the language we use can influence our experience and conscious creation
• The words Kim invites people to remove from their vocabulary, including “should,” “but,” and “how”
• The difference between doing and being
• Why surrender can be understood as allowing
• Becoming a “divine listener” and learning to trust inner wisdom
• Setting intentions based on qualities rather than specific outcomes
• Why intention is different from goals, affirmations, and traditional manifestation
• The relationship between healing, self-worth, and conscious creation
• Moving beyond the idea that we are broken and remembering our inherent wholeness
• Recognizing emotions as an internal navigation system rather than something to suppress
• The danger of spiritual bypassing and denying difficult emotions
• How curiosity and compassionate listening can help bridge division and separation
• The difference between fixing someone and holding space for their wholeness
• Why our greatest gift to the world may be our own transformation
• The importance of putting down external technology and reconnecting with our inner technology

At its heart, this conversation is an invitation to remember who you are, trust what is within you, and become more available to the infinite possibilities that emerge when you stop trying to control the “how.”

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For more on Kim: https://kimstanwoodterranova.com

In Season 3, Episode 2 of Unharmable, TJ Woodward sits down with therapist, spiritual teacher, and healer Mike Racadio to explore his extraordinary near-death experience at age 21—and how that experience fundamentally changed the way he understands life, suffering, healing, and consciousness.

Mike shares what it was like to enter what he describes as the “clear light of the void,” where he experienced a profound sense of home, interconnectedness, and oneness. From there, TJ and Mike explore what happens when we return to a world experienced through duality, and how the “veils” we accumulate throughout life can obscure the deeper truth of who we are.

The conversation moves into the intersection of spirituality, psychology, recovery, nervous-system regulation, and embodiment, challenging the idea that healing is simply about gaining intellectual awareness. Instead, Mike and TJ discuss what it means to actually feel transformation in the body.

They also explore why struggle can become part of our alchemical process, why our protective patterns aren't necessarily broken parts of us, and how learning to love ourselves—including the parts we wish would change—can create genuine inner safety.

In this episode, TJ and Mike explore:

• Mike's extraordinary near-death experience and his encounter with the “clear light of the void”
• The experience of oneness, interconnectedness, and ultimate reality
• Why our perception of life can change when the “veils” of conditioning begin to lift
• The difference between intellectual awareness and embodied transformation
• Why curiosity may be more useful than trying to achieve a permanent state of enlightenment
• The role of the nervous system in healing, spirituality, and emotional transformation
• Jungian alchemy and why struggle can become part of our transformational process
• The difference between ultimate truth and conventional reality
• Finding the “middle way” between spirituality and everyday human life
• Why our protective patterns may actually be brilliant strategies for survival
• Learning to love every part of ourselves instead of going to war with ourselves
• Why authentic connection requires us to become more fully ourselves
• The importance of healing in relationship with others, rather than trying to do everything alone
• How presence and the way we perceive others can fundamentally change our experience
• Why the future of healing may require more human connection, embodiment, and genuine presence

Ultimately, this conversation asks a powerful question: What if the parts of ourselves we've spent years trying to fix aren't broken at all—and what if learning to love them is the doorway to becoming who we truly are?

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In Season 3, Episode 1 of Unharmable, TJ Woodward sits down with spiritual therapist and Soul Psychology Academy founder Suzi Lula for a deeply moving conversation about healing, consciousness, emotional freedom, and remembering who we truly are.

Suzi introduces her powerful metaphor of the “Golden Cord of Consciousness” — the idea that we are born whole, worthy, connected, and comfortable in our being, before life begins teaching us that something about us is broken, wrong, or not enough.

Together, TJ and Suzi explore what happens when we begin identifying with those experiences and turn protective strategies into an unconscious identity.

They dive into:

• The Golden Cord of Consciousness and the belief that we are born whole
• How trauma, family, culture, and conditioning create “knots” in consciousness
• Why we can confuse what happened to us with who we are
• Why understanding our patterns intellectually isn't always enough to create transformation
• The importance of safety, compassion, and the felt experience of healing
• How survival strategies can become automatic patterns in adulthood
• Moving beyond self-blame, self-shame, and self-criticism
• Why looking at a picture of yourself as a young child can become a powerful healing practice
• What toddlers can teach us about failure, persistence, curiosity, and compassion
• Understanding emotions as energy in motion rather than something to avoid
• Suzi's Emotional Messenger System and learning to become curious about what emotions are communicating
• The transformative idea that “the universe is for you”
• Moving beyond spiritual bypassing and learning to hold both pain and possibility
• The difference between having a wound and believing that the wound defines you

This is a conversation about untangling the knots, creating internal safety, reconnecting with our essential nature, and coming home to the part of ourselves that was never actually broken.

You are not the knot. You are the consciousness underneath it.

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For more on Suzi Lula: https://www.suzilula.com/

In Season 2, Episode 12 of Unharmable, TJ Woodward sits down with Michael Castanon, founder and CEO of Alter Behavioral Health and creator of Care Predictor, to explore one of the most overlooked forces in behavioral health: human connection.

Together, TJ and Michael challenge the traditional “broken person” model of treatment and explore what happens when behavioral health professionals shift from trying to fix people to creating the conditions where healing and possibility can emerge.

In this episode, they explore:

• Why connection is not a soft skill—but a critical clinical skill
• The role of therapeutic alliance and human connection in positive outcomes
• Why behavioral health providers experience burnout and disillusionment
• The importance of measuring behavioral health outcomes and quality of care
• How clinicians can recognize and work with their own unresolved wounds
• The “wounded healer” and why personal healing matters in helping others
• Why there may be no such thing as zero motivation
• How presence, curiosity, and non judgment can amplify a person's internal motivation
• The difference between being present and being the presence
• Why rapport must come before rupture repair
• How shame can perpetuate broken systems and broken beliefs
• The transformative power of mercy over judgment
• Why behavioral health professionals must see themselves as a continuous work in progress
• Moving from a pathology-based model toward possibility

This is a deeply honest conversation about the future of behavioral health—and about the responsibility we have to heal ourselves, strengthen our systems, and create environments where both clients and the people serving them can thrive.

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To learn more about Michael Castanon: https://alterbehavioralhealth.com/michael-castanon/

To learn more about Care Predictor: https://carepredictor.com/about

In Season 2, Episode 11 of Unharmable, TJ Woodward welcomes clinical psychologist, author, and founder of Awakened Therapy Center, Dr. Lauren Costine, for an honest conversation about trauma, addiction, attachment wounds, spirituality, and the journey back to our authentic selves.

Together they explore why healing isn't about fixing what's wrong with us—it's about remembering the part of us that has never been damaged.

From childhood conditioning and shame to addiction, recovery, nervous system regulation, Carl Jung, spiritual bypassing, and the integration of psychology with spirituality, this conversation offers hope for anyone ready to move beyond survival and into true healing.

Whether you're in recovery, navigating trauma, or simply searching for greater peace, this episode reminds us that beneath every wound is an unharmable essence waiting to be rediscovered.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why trauma is something you experience—not who you are
• The difference between healing and spiritual bypassing
• How shame becomes identity—and how to release it
• Why curiosity creates transformation faster than judgment
• How attachment wounds shape adult relationships
• The importance of nervous system regulation in healing
• Carl Jung's wisdom on shadow work and midlife transformation
• Why psychology and spirituality are finally coming together
• The power of moving beyond blame into compassion
• How to reconnect with the part of yourself that has never been broken

Whether you're in recovery, navigating trauma, working in mental health, or supporting someone you love, this conversation offers a compassionate and empowering perspective on what healing can truly look like.

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In Season 2, Episode 10 of Unharmable, TJ Woodward sits down with Gregg Champion, co-founder of Startup Recovery and Startup Wellness, for an honest conversation about resilience, recovery, purpose, and discovering the part of ourselves that remains untouched by life's greatest challenges.

After losing his home, business, and his daughters' schools in the devastating Palisades Fire, Greg shares how service, community, and a commitment to recovery helped him rebuild—not just his business, but his life. TJ opens up about some of his own darkest moments, including business failure, bankruptcy, and spending 108 days in jail while sober, revealing how those experiences became the foundation for the work he does today.

Together, they explore why purpose is more powerful than fear, how mentorship changes lives, why healing isn't about "letting go" but living beyond old survival strategies, and how the greatest transformations often begin in our most difficult seasons.

Whether you're in recovery, navigating adversity, or searching for greater meaning, this episode offers hope, practical wisdom, and a reminder that your greatest setback may become your greatest purpose.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• How Greg rebuilt after losing everything in the Palisades Fire
• Why service is one of the greatest tools for recovery
• The difference between surviving and living on purpose
• Why recovery is about creating a future—not reliving the past
• How mentorship transforms lives for generations
• TJ's four-step framework for moving beyond destructive behaviors
• The neuroscience of purpose and emotional resilience
• Why "This Too Shall Pass" applies to both success and struggle
• How to transform pain into a meaningful legacy

Whether you're in recovery, navigating trauma, working in mental health, or supporting someone you love, this conversation offers a compassionate and empowering perspective on what healing can truly look like.

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In Season 2, Episode 9 of Unharmable, TJ Woodward welcomes psychologist and behavioral health leader Dr. Max Doshay for a conversation that challenges traditional mental health models while honoring the realities of trauma, addiction, anxiety, depression, and recovery.

Together they explore the difference between trauma-informed and trauma-focused care, why diagnoses should never become identities, and how our perception of ourselves often creates a second layer of suffering beyond the original wound.

If you've ever believed you're broken because of what happened to you, this conversation offers another possibility: that beneath every experience is an essential self that has never been harmed.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why trauma-focused care goes beyond trauma-informed treatment
• The hidden danger of identifying with a diagnosis
• How perception shapes emotional suffering
• Why "I'm depressed about being depressed" creates additional pain
• The neuroscience behind changing your self-perception
• Why trauma lives in both the brain and the body
• How unconscious beliefs shape relationships and behavior
• The difference between blame, accountability, and healing
• Why curiosity is more transformative than judgment
• Practical ways to begin healing without believing you're broken

Whether you're in recovery, navigating trauma, working in mental health, or supporting someone you love, this conversation offers a compassionate and empowering perspective on what healing can truly look like.

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In Season 2, Episode 8 of Unharmable, TJ Woodward welcomes therapist and parts work expert Adrienne Glasser for a powerful conversation about healing from the inside out. Rather than beginning with the question, "What's wrong with me?" they invite us to ask a radically different question: "What if there is a part of me that has always remained unharmed?"

Together, TJ and Adrienne explore how childhood experiences, family systems, trauma, addiction, shame, and societal expectations can disconnect us from our authentic light. Through the lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic awareness, and compassionate curiosity, they reveal why our protective parts aren't the enemy—they're brilliant strategies that once kept us safe.

This conversation offers hope for anyone seeking deeper healing by learning to reconnect with the creative, intuitive, and whole self that has never been broken.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why your authentic self has never been broken—only protected.
• How childhood experiences create the protective parts that shape adulthood.
• Why shame cannot heal shame.
• The difference between behavioral change and true emotional healing.
• How curiosity transforms the inner critic into an ally.
• The importance of body awareness and somatic healing.
• Why validation is often the missing piece in recovery and therapy.
• How creativity, play, and intuition reconnect us with our unharmed essence.
• The role of compassion in healing individual and collective wounds.
• How becoming aware of our "protective bubbles" creates greater freedom and connection.

If you've ever struggled with feeling "too much," "not enough," or disconnected from yourself, this episode offers a compassionate roadmap back to the light that has always existed within you.

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