Permission To Breathe
by Dr. Tammy Isaac
Latest episode
When Grief Catches You Off Guard: Understanding Holiday Grief Triggers
When Grief Catches You Off Guard: Understanding Holiday Grief Triggers
About this podcast
Permission to Breathe Podcast, is a transformative space dedicated to providing a sanctuary where you can inhale deeply and exhale freely, embracing your grief journey unapologetically. I'm your host, Dr. Tammy Isaac, here with you every Monday to offer comfort, guidance, and hope. Together, we'll navigate this path, finding moments to pause, reflect, and breathe.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 66 episodes
- When Grief Catches You Off Guard: Understanding Holiday Grief Triggers · 36 min · Season 6 Episode 2In this episode of the Permission to Breathe Podcast, Dr. Tammy Isaac explores holiday grief triggers and why they can feel so sudden and overwhelming. She discusses how the body…
- Keeping the Connection: Grief, Continuing Bonds, and the Holidays · 52 min · Season 6 Episode 1The holidays can make the absence of someone we love feel even more noticeable. Familiar traditions, favorite foods, music, gatherings, and even the empty chair at the table can…
- The Grief of Domestic Violence: Mourning What Abuse Takes Away · 56 min · Season 5 Episode 12Domestic violence can leave behind more than physical injuries. It can also create grief. In this episode of the Permission to Breathe Podcast, Dr. Tammy Isaac explores the…
- Carrying Love, Carrying Loss: Understanding Perinatal Bereavement · 42 min · Season 5 Episode 11In this episode, “Carrying Love, Carrying Loss: Understanding Perinatal Bereavement,” Dr. Tammy Isaac gently explores the sacred grief of losing a baby through miscarriage…
- Breast Cancer & Grief Navigating Loss, Hope, and Healing · 51 min · Season 5 Episode 10In this episode of the Permission to Breathe Podcast, Dr. Tammy Isaac explores the emotional weight of breast cancer and the losses that often remain hidden beneath the pink…
- When Money Changes Everything: Understanding Financial Grief · 49 min · Season 5 Episode 9In this episode of Permission to Breathe, Rev. Dr. Tammy Isaac explores financial grief, the emotional impact of losing financial stability or growing up without it. She examines…
- When Faith Becomes a Shortcut Around Grief · 1 h 0 min · Season 5 Episode 8In this episode of Permission to Breathe, Dr. Tammy Isaac explores spiritual bypassing in grief and the harm that can occur when prayer, Scripture, religious explanations, or…
- When Grief Comes From Complicated Relationships · 60 min · Season 5 Episode 7Grief can become especially complicated when the person who died was also someone who caused hurt, disappointment, conflict, or emotional harm. In this episode of Permission to…
- The Grief of Getting Older · 53 min · Season 5 Episode 5Getting older is a blessing, but it can also carry grief. In this episode of the Permission to Breathe podcast, Dr. Tammy Isaac explores the losses and changes that can accompany…
- When Someone You Never Met Dies: Understanding Parasocial Grief · 51 min · Season 5 Episode 6Can we grieve someone we never personally knew? In this episode of Permission to Breathe, Dr. Tammy Isaac explores parasocial grief, the genuine sorrow that can follow the death…
- What Was Never Mourned · 51 min · Season 5 Episode 4In this episode of the Permission to Breathe Podcast, Dr. Tammy Isaac explores the grief that has often gone unnamed within Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color. She…
- The Neuroscience of Spirituality in Grief and End of Life · 47 min · Season 5 Episode 3In this episode of the Permission to Breathe Podcast, Dr. Tammy Isaac explores the neuroscience of spirituality at the end of life and in grief care. Through four bedside…
- Understanding Death and the Dying Part 2 · 52 min · Season 5 Episode 2In Part Two, Dr. Tammy Isaac moves beyond the physical process of dying to explore the emotional, relational, cultural, and spiritual experiences that may surround the end of…
- Understanding Death and Dying Part 1 · 40 min · Season 5 Episode 1In Part One of this two-part series, Dr. Tammy Isaac explores why conversations about death and dying are often avoided and why understanding the dying process matters for…
- The Grief of Being Called but Not Accepted · 28 min · Season 4 Episode 12In this episode, Dr. Tammy Isaac reflects on the emotional weight that can come when a woman senses she has something meaningful to offer but encounters resistance from…
- The Grief Behind Women’s Leadership · 30 min · Season 4 Episode 11Leadership is often celebrated for its influence and impact, but the emotional weight behind it is rarely discussed. In this episode, Dr. Tammy Isaac explores the grief many…
- Healing As A Woman is Historical Work · 28 min · Season 4 Episode 10This episode examines how grief shows up in the lives of women and why healing can be understood as historical work. When a woman begins to acknowledge her grief and care for her…
- What History Did to Her Nervous System · 27 min · Season 4 Episode 9This Women’s History Month episode explores the hidden cost of survival carried in women’s bodies across generations. While history highlights milestones and achievements, it…
- Exceptional but Empty: The Emotional Cost of Always Being Strong · 26 min · Season 4 Episode 8Black excellence is celebrated. Strength is admired. Success is applauded. But what happens when being exceptional becomes exhausting? In this episode, we explore the emotional…
- Inherited Weight: The Grief Behind the Glory · 25 min · Season 4 Episode 7Black History Month celebrates brilliance, culture, leadership, and legacy. But what about the grief that never made the headlines? In this episode, Dr. Tammy Isaac explores the…
