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.
When Money Changes Everything: Understanding Financial Grief
In 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 how money affects security, identity, relationships, dignity, and the future we imagined for ourselves. This conversation also considers poverty, generational disadvantage, survival, shame, and the ways inequality can shape behavior without assuming that poverty causes criminality or excusing harm. When Money Changes Everything: Understanding Financial Grief creates space to acknowledge what financial hardship has taken, interrupted, or never made possible while affirming that our financial circumstances do not determine our worth.
21 Sept 2026
When Faith Becomes a Shortcut Around Grief
In 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 expectations of strength are used to avoid the emotional reality of loss. She examines familiar statements that may sound comforting but leave grieving people feeling silenced, ashamed, or spiritually inadequate. This conversation also addresses self-bypassing, the pressure placed on spiritual leaders and caregivers, and the ways faith communities can unintentionally make mourning more difficult. Drawing from lament, Job’s suffering, and the grief expressed by Jesus, Dr. Isaac shows that anger, doubt, questions, and sorrow are not necessarily signs of failed faith. Listeners will learn what supportive spiritual care can look like when it makes room for honesty, listens without imposing explanations, and allows faith and grief to exist together.
14 Sept 2026
When Grief Comes From Complicated Relationships
Grief 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 Breathe, Dr. Tammy Isaac explores what it means to grieve a relationship that held love and pain at the same time. Using Jennette McCurdy’s memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died as a point of departure, this episode examines grief that includes anger, relief, guilt, longing, unfinished conversations, and the loss of what the relationship never became. Dr. Isaac also considers the pressure to remember the dead more favorably than the relationship warrants, the difference between guilt and grief, and what it means to mourn without reconciliation. This conversation offers permission to grieve the relationship as it actually was, without rewriting the past or forcing your emotions into a simpler story.
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