Unharmable with TJ Woodward

About Unharmable with TJ Woodward

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/ (https://www.unharmable.com/) for more information and to watch on YouTube.

Publisher

TJ Woodward

Category

education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Mar 2026

Latest episode

21 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

31 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Oct 2026

   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 (http://www.Unharmable.com)

2. 

   14 Oct 2026

   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 (http://www.Unharmable.com) For more on Michael Krowne: https://michaelkrowne.com (https://michaelkrowne.com/)

3. 

   7 Oct 2026

   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 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. Please like, subscribe, and share it with someone who may need this message today. Learn more: www.Unharmable.com (http://www.Unharmable.com) For more on Dr. Krista Gilbert,: https://www.growingedgebh.com (https://www.growingedgebh.com/)