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.

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Learn more: www.Unharmable.com

For more on Dr. Krista Gilbert,: https://www.growingedgebh.com