Permission To Breathe

Dr. Tammy Isaac

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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.

3D AGO

Inherited Weight: The Grief Behind the Glory

Black 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 inherited weight carried by Black people across generations. From survival patterns shaped by history to the emotional labor embedded in daily life, this conversation names what often goes unspoken. Together we examine how silence, strength, and ongoing stress shape emotional and physical health today. This is an invitation to honor both the glory and the grief, and to consider what healing might look like for this generation. If you have ever felt praised for being strong while quietly feeling overwhelmed, this episode is for you. Take a breath. Let’s talk about the grief behind the glory.

25 min
FEB 9

Loving Again While Carrying the Fear of Loss

Loving again after loss can feel confusing. You may want connection while also feeling hesitant. You may miss closeness and still feel afraid of what it could cost you. For many people, love after grief does not arrive with confidence. It arrives with questions, caution, and a guarded heart. In this episode of Permission to Breathe, we explore what it means to consider loving again while still carrying the fear of loss. Not by forcing readiness. Not by offering formulas. But by telling the truth about how grief reshapes love, trust, and the body.

28 min
FEB 1

History in the Heart: Grief in African American Women

February is both Heart Awareness Month and Black History Month. In this episode of Permission to Breathe, Dr. Tammy Isaac explores the connection between grief, history, and heart health in African American women. Grief is often understood only as loss through death, yet for many Black women it has been ongoing, layered, and deeply tied to caregiving, chronic stress, silence, and survival. This episode invites listeners to consider heart health through lived experience, examining how unacknowledged grief and prolonged emotional strain affect the body, particularly the heart. With compassion and clarity, Dr. Isaac creates space to reflect on what has been carried and what caring for the heart can look like moving forward.

27 min
JAN 26

The Friendships That Fade After Loss

Grief does not only come from the loss itself. It often brings unexpected changes to friendships and community. In this episode, Dr. Tammy Isaac explores how grief reshapes relationships, why some friendships fade after loss, and how to grieve those secondary losses without turning the pain inward. This conversation offers clarity, validation, and language for experiences many people feel but rarely name.

29 min
JAN 22

Grief and Anger Toward God, Faith, or Institutions

Grief does not only bring sadness. It can also bring anger, disappointment, and disillusionment toward God, faith communities, and the institutions we trusted to care. In this episode, we make space for anger without guilt or spiritual shortcuts. This conversation names what many people feel but struggle to say out loud and offers permission to be honest without rushing toward answers.

34 min
JAN 12

When Feeling Nothing Is Still Feeling Something

Some people experience grief through overwhelming emotion. Others experience it through silence. Emotional numbness is a common and often misunderstood grief response, leaving many people questioning themselves when they do not feel what they expect to feel. In this episode, we explore emotional numbness as a natural response to loss. We talk about why numbness happens, how the body uses it as protection, and why the absence of feeling is not a sign of failure or lack of love. This conversation offers clarity for those who feel disconnected, flat, or emotionally muted after loss and reassurance that grief does not follow a single emotional path. If you have ever wondered why you feel nothing after something significant has happened, this episode invites you to listen without pressure, judgment, or expectation.

23 min
JAN 5

Closing the Year, Opening the Next: Grief, Hope, and Expectation

In this opening episode of Season Four, Dr. Tammy Isaac explores how grief shows up at the edges of time. She reflects on grief as a keeper of time, the permission to acknowledge what the year required of us, and the importance of setting expectations that honor both loss and humanity. This episode also reframes hope, not as pressure or forced optimism, but as something steady that can exist alongside grief. This conversation is an invitation to move into the new year without rushing healing, minimizing loss, or leaving parts of yourself behind. Grief and hope are allowed to coexist here.

41 min
09/28/2025

Trauma and Grief: When Healing Feels Out of Reach

When loss collides with trauma, grief doesn’t just break the heart, it shakes the body, mind, and spirit. In this episode, Dr. Tammy Isaac unpacks what traumatic grief is, how it differs from other forms of grief, and why it can sometimes lead to complicated grief. She explores the signs and struggles many experience, the hope found in traumatic grief therapy, and gentle pathways toward healing for those carrying this weight and for the loved ones who walk beside them.

35 min

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.

Creator

Dr. Tammy Isaac
Years Active

2024 - 2026
Episodes

47
Rating

Clean
Copyright

© Dr. Tammy Isaac
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Permission To Breathe