You Are Not Broken: LGBTQ+ Recovery and the Return to Self With Reese Clark

In Season 2, Episode 22 of the Element Q Podcast, host TJ Woodward sits down with Reese Clark explore a powerful question: What are we really talking about when we talk about healing? Moving beyond the myth of healing as a finish line, they reframe it as an ongoing return to wholeness. Together, they unpack how shame—particularly within the LGBTQ+ community—can create a false identity of brokenness, and how true transformation begins when we question that narrative. Through personal stories and clinical insight, they examine the shift from trying to “fix” ourselves to witnessing and integrating all parts of who we are. Reese Clark, a trauma-informed clinician and member of the team at The Camp Recovery Center near Santa Cruz, brings both lived wisdom and professional expertise to this conversation. Reese and TJ discuss the capital-S Self—the essential nature beneath addiction and trauma—along with TJ’s integrative “Four Rooms” framework (physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual). This episode is a powerful invitation for clinicians, healers, and anyone on a recovery journey to move from pathology to possibility, embrace presence over performance, and rediscover the wholeness that has always been there. 👉 Subscribe to support conversations on conscious healing, authentic living, and personal transformation. 🔗 Learn more: Element Q Healing:https://www.elementqhealingcenter.com TJ Woodward: https://www.tjwoodward.com