Today we’d like to introduce you to Dr. Tasha Mac.
Hi Dr. Tasha , we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
From Courageous Rebirth to becoming unbroken NOW.
I did not just endure grief. I decoded the architecture grief disrupts.
I did not set out to become known as the Grief Pathway Doctor. I became her because I could not find language for what was happening to me or to others.
Grief, exhaustion, burnout, fear, and collapse are not the problem.
They are signals of incoherence.
For more than two decades, I worked inside leadership, compliance, transformation, and coaching across government, corporate, and community spaces. I watched capable, high functioning adults carry profound loss while still leading teams, parenting families, and meeting expectations. They were not falling apart publicly. They were unraveling quietly.
Then it happened to me.
I experienced a private collapse that did not fit the categories people expect. I was still functioning, still responsible, still strong by every external measure. But internally, something no longer aligned with who I had been. What I was experiencing was not weakness or burnout. It was unresolved grief, identity disruption, and years of survival adaptation catching up without a framework to hold it.
What I could not find was language or structure for people who were overwhelmed yet still functioning without immediately pathologizing them or forcing them into labels. Grief was treated as an emotion to process, not as a life experience that reorganizes identity, safety, and meaning.
The Five Stages of Grief, originally observed in the terminally ill, were never meant to be prescriptive frameworks for the living. Yet because grief was largely unspoken, that model became the dominant language and was broadly applied. Without that work, we would not be here today. It opened the door to acknowledging grief at all. But it was not a system.
So I built what did not exist.
The Grief Pathway emerged through lived experience, systems thinking, neuroscience, leadership psychology, somatic regulation, and faith. Faith became the anchor that held me when understanding ran out and endurance was all that remained. It is not coaching, therapy or diagnosis. It is a guided orientation that helps people understand what is happening internally and stabilize before trying to fix or push through.
People began calling me the Grief Pathway Doctor because I did not try to change who they were. I helped them regain coherence and find their way forward without shame. That work became the foundation for Becoming UNBROKEN NOW.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
No. And it was never meant to be.
As a systems thinker, the first challenge was recognizing a pattern others were missing. People were not failing. The systems they were using simply were not built to support what happens before healing or growth can integrate.
The second challenge came after surviving a near death health crisis during the pandemic. That experience clarified something essential. Grief is not only about who we lose. It is about what we are forced to carry. I was navigating grief, health challenges, financial instability, and identity disruption while developing a system that required precision, restraint, and coherence. That forced me to slow down, observe carefully, and allow the work to mature rather than rushing it into visibility.
Another major obstacle was language. What I was experiencing did not fit neatly into existing clinical, leadership, or grief frameworks. I had to resist forcing this work into models that could not hold it.
I saw the same pattern repeatedly in myself and others. People were investing time, money, and hope into motivation programs, healing modalities, leadership coaching, and even clinical care, yet still feeling triggered, fragmented, and internally unsettled. That consistency was not accidental. It was a signal.
People were not failing the programs. The programs were never designed to address what happens before regulation, before reprocessing, and before healing can hold.
There was also isolation. Much of this work required containment before exposure. I had to learn when not to share, when to pause, and when to protect the integrity of what was still forming.
Those challenges did not stop the work. They refined it. They ensured it was built from coherence rather than survival. That is why it holds.
We’ve been impressed with IAM Systems, but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
IAM Systems is the system beneath the systems.
It is a scalable, identity based platform designed to address a critical gap across grief support, leadership development, wellness, and transformation. At its core, the work focuses on restoring internal coherence after grief, loss, disruption, and major life transitions, especially for people who continue functioning while carrying too much for too long.
Our flagship offering is Becoming UNBROKEN NOW: The Grief Pathway, a twelve week guided orientation built around a person’s real internal experience, not assumptions or timelines. This work does not replace therapy, medical care, or healing modalities. It prepares people to engage those supports from a regulated, grounded place.
What sets this work apart is clarity. Most approaches focus on emotions, mindset, or performance. We focus on what must stabilize before those approaches can actually work. Grief is not treated as something to suppress or perform through, but as a signal that identity, safety, and meaning need reorganization.
We are known for working with high functioning adults, high performers, and leaders who are still showing up but feel internally incoherent. People who have done the work and still feel off. People grieving things that were never named, such as loss of identity, health, direction, safety, or self trust.
What I am most proud of brand wise is integrity. This system was built through lived clinical level integration, comparative research, and real world observation. It was not rushed. It was tested carefully and designed to hold complexity without turning people into diagnoses or trends.
Through structured analysis with 77 women and 21 men, the patterns consistently confirmed the architecture. Participants consistently report feeling seen and understood. More importantly, the assessment insights help orient their entire care ecosystem. Rather than competing with therapy, coaching, medical care, or healing modalities, the Grief Pathway System stabilizes the internal conditions that allow those supports to work more effectively. IAM Systems complements existing care. It does not replace it.
This work is not about fixing people. It is about helping them become safe inside themselves again, while removing the barrier of mental health labeling that often obscures internal incoherence and prevents many high functioning individuals, high performers, and leaders from seeking support.
Organizations can host “Becoming UNBROKEN NOW” leadership and employee conferences as a structured wellness and development resource that moves beyond awareness into actionable support. The experience equips leaders and teams with shared language, orientation, and practical tools to stabilize morale, restore clarity, and sustain performance during periods of change, loss, or prolonged pressure.
Within this framework, individuals may access the Grief Pathway as a private wellness resource designed to support stabilization and integration without diagnosis, labeling, or disruption to ongoing responsibilities.
The Books Behind the Work
Courageous Rebirth: The Little Girl traces the origins of survival through the child’s nervous system and the early adaptations that shape leadership, identity, and endurance long before adulthood.
Becoming UNBROKEN: The Grief Pathway follows adult consciousness back through those early imprints, redefining grief and loss not as emotions to process, but as life experiences.
Together, these books reveal why grief disrupts identity before it touches emotion—and why healing cannot begin without first restoring internal coherence.
Subscribe at www.becomingunbrokennow.com to receive the opening chapter, Why Grief Disrupts Identity, Not Just Emotions.
In terms of your work and the industry, what are some of the changes you are expecting to see over the next five to ten years?
We are moving toward a structural shift, not just an expansion.
For decades, grief support, leadership development, mental health, coaching, somatics, spirituality, and performance optimization have operated in parallel lanes. Each offered partial support, yet many people continued to feel fragmented despite doing everything right.
That model is reaching its limit.
The next evolution is identity integration. We will move away from symptom management and motivation cycles toward systems that address what happens before healing, leadership, or performance can stabilize. The focus will shift upstream to internal coherence, nervous system readiness, and sustainable capacity.
Foundational work like Elisabeth Kübler Ross’s Five Stages of Grief mattered. It opened the door to acknowledging grief. What is happening now is the next step. Humanity no longer needs observational models alone. We need orientation frameworks that help people navigate grief, disruption, and transition with precision and safety.
In the coming decade, we will see the rise of institutes that train and certify professionals across disciplines to work from shared identity integration frameworks. Leaders, clinicians, coaches, healers, educators, and organizations will require systems that restore coherence before intervention or diagnosis.
IAM Systems is not responding to a trend. It is preparing the infrastructure for what comes next.
The future is not about doing more.
It is about becoming coherent first.
And that shift has already begun.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.becomingunbrokennow.com
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