Element Q Podcast: Empowering LGBTQ+ Voices, One Story at a Time
Element Q Podcast: Empowering LGBTQ+ Voices, One Story at a Time
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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—brave, resilient individuals who fought tirelessly for the rights and recognition the LGBTQ+ community holds today. Their strength laid the foundation for a brighter future built on courage, healing, and transformation.ABOUT THE HOSTTJ Woodward is a revolutionary recovery expert, bestselling author, and addiction treatment specialist who has helped countless individuals through his simple yet powerful teachings. He is also the creator of The Conscious Recovery Method, an innovative approach to understanding and treating addiction.With years of experience, TJ specializes in helping the LGBTQ+ community heal from unresolved trauma, spiritual disconnection, and shame.
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Content Themes
The podcast explores a range of themes central to the LGBTQ+ community, including healing, trauma recovery, body image issues, and empowerment. Recent episodes have delved into somatic therapy, body shame, and the future of LGBTQ+ empowerment, showcasing expert perspectives from therapists and community advocates aimed at fostering growth and resilience within the community.

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 CENTER
Our 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—brave, resilient individuals who fought tirelessly for the rights and recognition the LGBTQ+ community holds today. Their strength laid the foundation for a brighter future built on courage, healing, and transformation.
ABOUT THE HOST
TJ Woodward is a revolutionary recovery expert, bestselling author, and addiction treatment specialist who has helped countless individuals through his simple yet powerful teachings. He is also the creator of The Conscious Recovery Method, an innovative approach to understanding and treating addiction.
With years of experience, TJ specializes in helping the LGBTQ+ community heal from unresolved trauma, spiritual disconnection, and shame.
In Season 3, Episode 13 of the Element Q Podcast, In this deeply moving conversation, TJ Woodward sits down with Shannon Cury (they/them) for a powerful conversation about identity, trauma, breathwork, meditation, nervous-system awareness and what it means to come home to yourself.
Shannon is a breathwork guide and somatic wellness facilitator whose own healing journey was profoundly shaped by a cancer diagnosis. What began as a physical health crisis became a deeper exploration of the mind-body connection, meditation, breathwork, identity and holistic healing.
In this episode:
The power of the “both/and” LGBTQ+ identity and healing
Trauma and the nervous system
The mind-body connection
Breathwork and somatic healing
Meditation and observing your thoughts
Why you are not your thoughts
Protective responses and survival strategies
Fear versus curiosity
Healing shame and reconnecting with joy Identity-affirming healing
Social media and nervous-system activation
The danger of turning healing into another hustle Learning to pause before reacting Coming home to yourself
🔗 Learn more:
Element Q Healing: https://www.elementqhealingcenter.com
TJ Woodward: https://www.tjwoodward.com
Shannon Cury: https://collectivelywell.com

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