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Episode 49: LGBTQ, Addiction and The Hard Conversations

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Laura McKowen & Holly Whitaker

Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2016

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, TJ Woodward, an addiction counselor, inspirational speaker and author in San Francisco joins the girls to talk about the specific issues the LGBTQ community faces in addiction and recovery. He talks about the shifts he's seen over the course of his journey as a gay, sober man, his career, and what he believes is to come. Most importantly, the three talk about the urgent importance of having the difficult conversations around sexuality, violence, addiction, race, or any other issue that separates us. TJ is the minister and spiritual director of Awakened Living, and is in private practice as a spiritual counselor and life coach. He also works as the spiritual counselor and group facilitator at Foundations San Francisco Intensive Outpatient Program in San Francisco. He is the host of Awakened Living TV and Awakened Living Radio and is soon publishing his second book, "Conscious Recovery." Learn more about TJ and his work at www.tjwoodward.com.

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0:00.0

There is hope for us yet.

0:08.0

I am Laura McCowen.

0:10.0

And I'm Holly Whitaker. And... And this is home podcast.

0:17.0

This is home podcast.

0:19.0

This is home podcast.

0:22.0

Home Podcast.

0:25.0

Oh, God, morning.

0:27.0

Good morning.

0:28.0

Good morning.

0:29.0

Oh, come morning.

0:31.0

How are you? I'm good. We're just had to delay starting because of the jackhammering that's going on outside my place.

0:44.0

Alma has been saying every morning,

0:49.0

I wish we just lived in a normal house.

0:53.6

Oh my God, she isn't the first thing that she said that, she says that, right?

0:57.6

Yeah, except, you know, we live in like a commercial, or like a, you know know it's a main street and there's an ice cream

1:05.3

shop right below our house many people have heard me talk about and so you she, like last night, her friends came and we went to the ice cream shop and she lives in the best place ever.

1:19.0

Yes.

1:20.0

But now, you know, she wants to live in a normal place.

1:23.6

So, I get it.

1:25.4

I totally get it.

1:26.4

Yeah.

1:28.0

How are you?

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