TJ Woodward
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The Element Q Podcast: Empowering LGBTQ+ Voices, One Story at a Time.Powered by Element Q Healing Center and hosted by TJ Woodward.Each week, TJ interviews authors, thought leaders, therapists, coaches, and healers dedicated to empowering and supporting the LGBTQ+ community.ABOUT ELEMENT Q HEALING CENTEROur mission is to serve each person’s journey by creating space for growth, connection, and renewal. Through identity, gender, and culturally affirming practices and trauma-focused care, we empower LGBTQIA+ community members to not only discover their voice but to embrace the strength and power within it. We honor those who came before us—brav...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
TJ Woodward connects LGBTQ+ social pressures with the intimate work of recovery, emotional safety, and self-acceptance.
Element Q turns conversations about LGBTQ+ life toward the inner work behind safety, self-acceptance, and connection. TJ Woodward interviews therapists, treatment leaders, and people in recovery, using personal questions and candid self-disclosure to move clinical ideas into…
Some days you can protest; some days the gym is enough, and TJ Woodward gets that.
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A thoughtful conversation about affirmation, dignity, and the work still ahead.
Ryan Sturtevant's conversation with T.J. Woodward centers on LGBTQ+ affirmation in the face of misgendering, deadnaming, fear, and the gap between symbolic support and lived safety.
A reflective conversation about service, spiritual leadership, and living more abundantly.
Ken Daigle's conversation with TJ Woodward centers on role models, spiritual leadership, and the idea that LGBTQ+ people can help clear the way for others.
A careful conversation about shame, sexual harm, and the work of healing without pretending any of it is simple.
Trauma, shame, and sexual harm are the center of this conversation between TJ Woodward and Terry Gatewood. The episode keeps circling back to how stigma can deepen the damage, how families and institutions can add their own weight, and why recovery starts with naming the pattern…
A patient, thoughtful conversation about stigma, recognition, and the slow work of healing.
Dr. Olivia Ratcliffe-Totty and TJ Woodward spend this episode on the quieter side of healing: identity, stigma, mental health language, and the work of being seen without being reduced to a diagnosis. What lands best is the way it leaves the harder tensions intact.
A patient, body-centered conversation about protection, trauma, and learning to stay with what feels hidden.
Adrienne Glasser and TJ Woodward talk through embodiment, parts work, and unprocessed trauma in a conversation aimed at the LGBTQ+ community. The strongest stretches move from theory into lived feeling, especially around a wall in the chest, dissociation, and the question of…
A grounded look at activism fatigue, boundary setting, and healing without losing care.
Roy Slicker, the Community Outreach Specialist for Rainbow Hill Recovery in Los Angeles, comes across as someone who knows care is rarely dramatic.
A measured conversation about trust, fear, trauma, and everyday safety for transgender people.
TJ Woodward and Katie Michaels keep the focus on how people sort information, decide who to trust, and notice when fear starts driving the reaction.
A calm, practical look at making LGBTQ plus healing ideas usable at home.
The piece follows AJ Fox and TJ Woodward as they talk through Wholehearted.org, a simple site meant to carry video programs to both professionals and the wider public.
Queer stereotypes, sharpened and set loose.
Queer pop culture, loudly and lovingly overread.
Quick hits with working entertainers.
TJ Woodward speaks with Kat Grassetti, chief clinical officer of Monima Behavioral Health, about why trauma-informed care is not the same as trauma-focused care.
TJ Woodward talks with Emi Olea, who describes being raised by a grandmother who bought her dolls and She-Ra, then being pushed into shame by family, school, and a move from the U.S.
TJ Woodward talks with Brian Nockreiner about recovery, self-acceptance, and the work of not buying the story that you are broken.
Ken Daigle joins TJ Woodward as a friend, an author, and a spiritual teacher.
TJ Woodward speaks with Betsy Speer, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Los Angeles, about internalized homophobia, shame, and how they surface after coming out.
TJ Woodward welcomes AJ Fox and opens the conversation around Wholehearted.org.
TJ Woodward interviews Devin Scott, a holistic and somatic practitioner, about shame, secrecy, and body wisdom on Element Q Podcast.
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Carter Serrett, CEO of Recovery Centers of America, joins TJ Woodward on Element Q Podcast to talk about shame, chem sex, and LGBTQ+ recovery.
TJ Woodward and Lori Mayer center this Element Q Podcast conversation on chosen family, estrangement, and the work of healing shame in LGBTQ+ lives.
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TJ Woodward speaks with Reese Clark, the clinical director at the Camp Recovery Center near Santa Cruz, about why healing is not a one-time fix.
TJ Woodward interviews singer-songwriter-poet Bobby Jo Valentine about healing, consciousness, and LGBTQ+ life on the Element Q Podcast.
Byron Williams, the National Clinical Outreach Specialist at No Matter What Recovery, argues that LGBTQ healing starts with “the noise within our community,” not just hostility from outside.
TJ Woodward interviews author and recovery guide David Wichman about inclusivity, shame, and queer sexual wholeness, starting with a cruise story that changed how David thought about safety.
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Jamie Remmers says visibility moved from 3%–5% of the population to “the double digits,” and she points to a law school where 28% of students are LGBTQ+.
TJ Woodward welcomes Roy Shortino, LMFT.
TJ Woodward welcomes Terry Gatewood for a reflective conversation about trauma, shame, and sexual behavior.
TJ Woodward welcomes Roy Slicker, the Community Outreach Specialist for Rainbow Hill Recovery in Los Angeles.
TJ Woodward welcomes Katie Michaels, an LCSW and longtime friend, for a conversation about the people, tools, and stories that hold up the LGBTQ+ community.
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Element Q centers this conversation on trauma recovery through a somatic, parts-work lens.
TJ Woodward welcomes Melissa Stevenson back for a second conversation, introducing her as an LMFT in private practice in San Diego and someone he has long admired and worked with.
TJ Woodward welcomes Reverend Cindy Edelson with laughter and real gratitude.
TJ Woodward welcomes Dr.
TJ Woodward and Reverend Carlton Teabout center this Element Q Podcast conversation on aging, shame, and inner child work in LGBTQ+ life.
Host TJ Woodward interviews John Larkin about LGBTQ+ recovery, exploring themes of addiction, internalized homophobia, and spirituality.
TJ Woodward interviews Ryan Sturtevant, founder of Chroma, about self-acceptance and trauma-informed care in the LGBTQ+ community.
Host TJ Woodward interviews life coach John Brody about their personal journeys from external success to deeper purpose, exploring therapy vs coaching, healing internalized homophobia, and the power of saying yes.