Tammy Price of Daphne, Alabama on Life, Lessons & Legacy

We’re looking forward to introducing you to Tammy Price. Check out our conversation below.

Tammy, we’re thrilled to have you with us today. Before we jump into your intro and the heart of the interview, let’s start with a bit of an ice breaker: What do you think others are secretly struggling with—but never say?
I feel that many of us quietly move through life with feelings of abandonment and rejection … and because we don’t have a depth of awareness about it .. because we are trained only to treat symptoms .. we aren’t able to speak to it.

These emotions have woven themselves into our sense of belonging so early that they become part of the backdrop of who we are.

In my experience, this ‘struggle’, or opportunity depending on how one looks at it is born out of a training ground … one that, though painful, feels familiar. And because it’s familiar, we tend to take action that supports staying there. Not because we want to, but because not knowing what life might feel like on the other side can be scary.

The work, for me, has been noticing when I’m moving from that place… and asking, if I were operating from a place of being 100% whole, would I still choose this … or might something else be possible?

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I’m someone who’s endlessly curious about how we become who we are … and what it takes to stay true to that as we evolve.

I’m a ten-year cancer survivor, author, and researcher exploring how abandonment and rejection shape our patterns of connection and belonging.

My life and work are about staying in integrity with my own constantly shifting, embodied beliefs … giving myself space to pivot and expand as new awareness lands.

Beyond the Plunge, the studio I co-founded, is one expression of that exploration. It’s a space where people reconnect with themselves through cold, heat, breath and community … all grounded in the understanding that nervous system regulation is the foundation for meaningful change.

To me, it’s part of a much larger conversation about what it means to live from the inside out, led by curiosity rather than conditioning.

Okay, so here’s a deep one: Who were you before the world told you who you had to be?
I’m not sure that version of me ever fully had the chance to form.

From the beginning, we’re born into families doing the best they can, often carrying their own dysfunction, their own unhealed stories.

I feel like I came into the world already learning how to read the room.

When I imagine myself as the center of a flower … the place where bees come to collect nectar and create something sweet … that’s the potential I feel we’re all born with.

The petals around that center hold the experiences that have shaped us, the stories that became part of our identity.

And in the spaces between those petals, we often reach for things … people, money, health, drugs, alcohol, food as a small sample, in an effort to feel whole again.

For me, the work has been about being honest and observant about those patterns … witnessing where I create from emptiness instead of connection and then gently shifting back toward what’s real.

The body remembers the way home.

It’s always guiding us there, if we’re willing to listen.

When did you stop hiding your pain and start using it as power?
I feel like for a long time, I was conditioned to be ashamed of my pain … to keep it quiet, to move on quickly, to be ‘fine.’

I was part of the matrix, doing what I thought I was supposed to do to survive vs thrive – to stay rooted in that abandonment and rejection training ground.

And yet, eventually, something in me chose differently.

I stopped intellectualizing my pain and started feeling it … all of it.

I surrounded myself with people who knew what it meant to hold space for that process without trying to fix it.

What I discovered is that the body doesn’t separate emotions; it only knows feeling so if I shut down my potential to feel pain, I also shut down my potential to feel joy.

That realization changed everything. I began to see that we can grow just as much through joy as we do through pain … and that was a complete shift in how I approached healing. So many get anchored in the belief that pain is required for growth. For me, the power came in realizing that life itself … in all its textures … is what grows us.

I think our readers would appreciate hearing more about your values and what you think matters in life and career, etc. So our next question is along those lines. What’s a belief or project you’re committed to, no matter how long it takes?
I have worthy student tattooed on my left arm as a reminder that I’m always learning.

The one thing I cannot not do … what I’m most passionate about … is my research around abandonment and rejection, and how those energies shape the way we move through the world. When I first learned about Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey, it completely transformed me.

As my own research evolved, I began to see how that journey intersects with the Law of Attraction … that the degree to which we’ve defined and integrated the energy of abandonment or rejection within ourselves determines how turbulent our ‘hero’s journey’ becomes.

I think of Dorothy on the yellow brick road … her version of the hero’s journey. All the encounters, the lessons and the longing to get home and yet I keep wondering: could we choose differently … make decisions from an energy of worth rather than from the residue of feeling abandoned or rejected?

That question continues to guide me … it’s the reason worthy student will always feel like a truth I’m still growing into.

Thank you so much for all of your openness so far. Maybe we can close with a future oriented question. Are you tap dancing to work? Have you been that level of excited at any point in your career? If so, please tell us about those days. 
Absolutely.

On the days I’m in the studio with clients (aka Beyonders) … watching them move between heat and cold … I swear I can feel my heart expanding inside my chest.

And when I get to co-facilitate breathwork, cold, and contrast trainings, I still have those pinch-me moments.

I can’t believe this is my work … helping people experience transformation through something as simple and primal as breath, water, and heat.

My favorite part? That moment with a first-time plunger when the energy shifts … their facial expression changes and they drop into the body. It feels like standing on the observation deck of a miracle. Every. single. time.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://beyondtheplunge.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shiftingintohighgear/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tammypricecmi
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tammy.p.correia