Unharmable with TJ Woodward

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Unharmable with TJ Woodward is a podcast featuring powerful conversations about healing, consciousness, and the journey back to our inherent wholeness. In each episode, TJ sits down with authors, therapists, spiritual teachers, and innovators to explore the inner shifts that support lasting transformation. Blending psychological insight with spiritual awareness, the podcast moves beyond surface-level self-help into honest discussions about shame, identity, connection, recovery, and awakening. Unharmable reminds listeners that healing is not about fixing ourselves, but about remembering who we have always been. Listen weekly for conversations that inspire clarity, compassion, and a deeper connection to your true nature. Visit https://www.unharmable.com/ for more information and to watch on YouTube.

  1. 1d ago

    How Our Assumptions Shape What We See in the People We Want to Help with Guest Chris Cummins

    In Season 3, Episode 7 of Unharmable, TJ Woodward sits down with Chris Cummins, Chief Operating Officer of Laguna Treatment Center in Orange County, California, to explore the difference between seeing people as broken and recognizing the wholeness that exists beneath their experiences, behaviors, and trauma. Drawing on their experience in behavioral health, addiction treatment, and clinical care, TJ and Chris challenge the assumptions that shape how we view people struggling with substance use, trauma, and harmful behaviors. They explore how unconscious bias, shame, labels, and preconceived expectations can influence treatment outcomes—and how a different approach grounded in presence, curiosity, and compassion can open the door to meaningful change. In this conversation, you'll discover: Why TJ Woodward and Chris Cummins believe our essential nature is not defined by our trauma or past experiences.How the paradigm of brokenness can reinforce shame and limit the possibilities for healing.Why unconscious bias can influence clinicians, caregivers, and the people they serve.What Chris learned from his experience in Child Protective Services about approaching people without preconceived judgments.How labels such as addict, perpetrator, and treatment-resistant can affect expectations and outcomes.What the Rat Park experiment suggests about connection, environment, and compulsive behavior.How curiosity and presence can help us move beyond judgment and disconnection.Why meaningful healing involves reconnecting with ourselves rather than simply trying to fix what we believe is wrong.Whether you work in behavioral health, support someone in recovery, or want to understand yourself and others more deeply, this conversation offers a powerful invitation to reconsider what healing makes possible. Please like, subscribe, and share it with someone who may need this message today. Learn more: www.Unharmable.com

    How Our Assumptions Shape What We See in the People We Want to Help with Guest Chris Cummins

  2. Oct 14

    Letting Go of the Belief That Gratitude Means Staying Small with Guest Michael Krowne

    In Season 3, Episode 6 of Unharmable, TJ sits down with Michael Crown for a deeply personal conversation about addiction recovery, self-worth, shame, consciousness, and the transformative power of changing the way we understand our past. Michael shares his journey through addiction, recovery, and the lifelong struggle to reconcile his potential with the belief that something inside him needed to be fixed. He reveals how an unexpected realization about his adoption transformed his understanding of abandonment, worthiness, and love—and ultimately changed the story he had been telling himself. Together, TJ and Michael explore why so many of us build our identities around painful experiences, how shame can keep us trapped in patterns of self-sabotage, and why true healing isn't about becoming someone new. It's about reconnecting with the wholeness that was never lost. This conversation challenges conventional ideas about recovery, personal growth, and healing. Rather than defining ourselves by our trauma, mistakes, diagnoses, or past behaviors, we can learn to hold our experiences with compassion while choosing a different way forward. In this episode, you'll discover: Why you are not broken, even if you've spent years believing you are.How shame and feelings of unworthiness can shape your identity, relationships, and decisions.Why gratitude and acceptance don't have to mean settling for less than your potential.How Michael reframed his adoption story from one of abandonment to one of love.The difference between changing your past and changing your relationship with it.Why success, achievement, and external validation cannot create lasting self-worth.How self-compassion and compassion for others can help us move beyond victimhood.Why wholeness doesn't mean perfection or the absence of pain.How recognizing the beliefs beneath our behavior can open the door to meaningful transformation.Why healing begins when we stop defining ourselves by what happened to us.A powerful reminder: You are not your past. You are not your mistakes. And you are not the painful conclusions you've drawn about yourself. What if your story doesn't have to define you? Please like, subscribe, and share it with someone who may need this message today. Learn more: www.Unharmable.com For more on Michael Krowne: https://michaelkrowne.com

    Letting Go of the Belief That Gratitude Means Staying Small with Guest Michael Krowne

  3. Oct 7

    When Old Identities Fall Away with Dr Krista Gilbert

    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 usThe concept of an “unharmed” or whole place within that remains untouched by our circumstancesKrista’s childhood experience of recognizing an inner sense that there was always a path forwardTJ’s own childhood awareness of love, followed by the experience of forgetting that knowingHow trauma, addiction, shame, and cultural conditioning can cause us to believe we are broken, unlovable, or not enoughThe difference between grit and the deeper capacity to keep moving from a place of inner knowingWhy difficult experiences can burn away identities and beliefs that were never truly who we areLimiting 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 beLeadership, executive coaching, and the transformative power of seeing someone's potential when they have temporarily lost sight of itWhy we need one another as mirrors, witnesses, mentors, friends, and sources of connectionThe relationship between suffering and joy, and why expanding our capacity to experience pain can also expand our capacity for joyThe power of leaning into pain instead of running from itEquanimity—maintaining balance and presence in the midst of uncertainty, stress, and changeHow reconnecting with our essential wholeness can create a different kind of energy, purpose, leadership, and freedomThis 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. Please like, subscribe, and share it with someone who may need this message today. Learn more: www.Unharmable.com For more on Dr. Krista Gilbert,: https://www.growingedgebh.com

    When Old Identities Fall Away with Dr Krista Gilbert

  4. Sep 30

    Healing Begins with Being Heard with Guest Dr. Mel Pohl

    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? Please like, subscribe, and share it with someone who may need this message today. Learn more: www.Unharmable.com For more on Dr. Mel Pohl: https://www.drmelpohl.com

    Healing Begins with Being Heard with Guest Dr. Mel Pohl

  5. Sep 23

    Trusting the Deeper Calling of Your Soul with Guest Kim Stanwood Terranova

    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 creationThe words Kim invites people to remove from their vocabulary, including “should,” “but,” and “how”The difference between doing and beingWhy surrender can be understood as allowingBecoming a “divine listener” and learning to trust inner wisdomSetting intentions based on qualities rather than specific outcomesWhy intention is different from goals, affirmations, and traditional manifestationThe relationship between healing, self-worth, and conscious creationMoving beyond the idea that we are broken and remembering our inherent wholenessRecognizing emotions as an internal navigation system rather than something to suppressThe danger of spiritual bypassing and denying difficult emotionsHow curiosity and compassionate listening can help bridge division and separationThe difference between fixing someone and holding space for their wholenessWhy our greatest gift to the world may be our own transformationThe importance of putting down external technology and reconnecting with our inner technologyAt 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.” Please like, subscribe, and share it with someone who may need this message today. Learn more: www.Unharmable.com For more on Kim: https://kimstanwoodterranova.com

    Trusting the Deeper Calling of Your Soul with Guest Kim Stanwood Terranova

  6. Sep 16

    Awakening to the Wholeness That Was Always Within You with Guest Mike Racadio

    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 realityWhy our perception of life can change when the “veils” of conditioning begin to liftThe difference between intellectual awareness and embodied transformationWhy curiosity may be more useful than trying to achieve a permanent state of enlightenmentThe role of the nervous system in healing, spirituality, and emotional transformationJungian alchemy and why struggle can become part of our transformational processThe difference between ultimate truth and conventional realityFinding the “middle way” between spirituality and everyday human lifeWhy our protective patterns may actually be brilliant strategies for survivalLearning to love every part of ourselves instead of going to war with ourselvesWhy authentic connection requires us to become more fully ourselvesThe importance of healing in relationship with others, rather than trying to do everything aloneHow presence and the way we perceive others can fundamentally change our experienceWhy the future of healing may require more human connection, embodiment, and genuine presenceUltimately, 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? Please like, subscribe, and share it with someone who may need this message today. Learn more: www.Unharmable.com

    Awakening to the Wholeness That Was Always Within You with Guest Mike Racadio

  7. Sep 9

    Creating Space for the Extraordinary Life Within You with Guest Suzi Lula

    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 wholeHow trauma, family, culture, and conditioning create “knots” in consciousnessWhy we can confuse what happened to us with who we areWhy understanding our patterns intellectually isn't always enough to create transformationThe importance of safety, compassion, and the felt experience of healingHow survival strategies can become automatic patterns in adulthoodMoving beyond self-blame, self-shame, and self-criticismWhy looking at a picture of yourself as a young child can become a powerful healing practiceWhat toddlers can teach us about failure, persistence, curiosity, and compassionUnderstanding emotions as energy in motion rather than something to avoidSuzi's Emotional Messenger System and learning to become curious about what emotions are communicatingThe transformative idea that “the universe is for you”Moving beyond spiritual bypassing and learning to hold both pain and possibilityThe difference between having a wound and believing that the wound defines youThis 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. Please like, subscribe, and share it with someone who may need this message today. Learn more: www.Unharmable.com For more on Suzi Lula: https://www.suzilula.com/

    Creating Space for the Extraordinary Life Within You with Guest Suzi Lula

  8. Aug 26

    The Science and Transformative Power of Human Connection with Guest Michael Castanon

    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 skillThe role of therapeutic alliance and human connection in positive outcomesWhy behavioral health providers experience burnout and disillusionmentThe importance of measuring behavioral health outcomes and quality of careHow clinicians can recognize and work with their own unresolved woundsThe “wounded healer” and why personal healing matters in helping othersWhy there may be no such thing as zero motivationHow presence, curiosity, and non judgment can amplify a person's internal motivationThe difference between being present and being the presenceWhy rapport must come before rupture repairHow shame can perpetuate broken systems and broken beliefsThe transformative power of mercy over judgmentWhy behavioral health professionals must see themselves as a continuous work in progressMoving from a pathology-based model toward possibilityThis 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. Please like, subscribe, and share it with someone who may need this message today. Learn more: www.Unharmable.com To learn more about Michael Castanon: https://alterbehavioralhealth.com/michael-castanon/ To learn more about Care Predictor: https://carepredictor.com/about

    The Science and Transformative Power of Human Connection with Guest Michael Castanon
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Unharmable with TJ Woodward is a podcast featuring powerful conversations about healing, consciousness, and the journey back to our inherent wholeness. In each episode, TJ sits down with authors, therapists, spiritual teachers, and innovators to explore the inner shifts that support lasting transformation. Blending psychological insight with spiritual awareness, the podcast moves beyond surface-level self-help into honest discussions about shame, identity, connection, recovery, and awakening. Unharmable reminds listeners that healing is not about fixing ourselves, but about remembering who we have always been. Listen weekly for conversations that inspire clarity, compassion, and a deeper connection to your true nature. Visit https://www.unharmable.com/ for more information and to watch on YouTube.

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