No Permission to Feel

Segments

No Permission Episode

30 min

Grieving - Mother

This clip is a good example of expressing empathy, understanding, and encouragement to a friend who is overwhelmed at the moment. Good friends are often touched deeply when one of them loses an important emotional attachment.

  • Attachment Type: Relationship

  • Running Time: 2:54 min

  • Type: Heartfelt – The scene deals with personal loss and emotional vulnerability.

  • Curated into: 6,9,12

  • Languages: English

  • Segment Code: 1023A

  • Sources: The Big Bang Theory. S8E15, 2015

Acting-Out Feelings - Bullying

In this emotionally charged scene, the character Bender peels back his tough exterior to reveal the unresolved pain he carries from his abusive home life. His sarcasm and rebellion, which have defined him until now, are revealed to be protective shields against deep emotional wounds.

The group begins to understand that each of them, in their own way, is carrying emotional baggage—some inherited, some self-inflicted, and all of it unspoken until now. This is a rare moment of vulnerability where grief, anger, shame, and loneliness converge, showing that much of what we call “bad behavior” is actually unprocessed pain.

Breakfast Club, 1985

  • Included in: 3,6,9,12

  • Principles discussed: Emotional Baggage, Unfinished Feelings, Processing Feelings

  1. Raw – Emotions are exposed without filters, giving the scene a powerful, almost uncomfortable honesty.

  2. Empathetic – It invites viewers to feel beyond the surface and recognize the pain behind the performance.

  3. Uncomfortable – The truth revealed about abuse and hidden feelings is hard to witness—but important.

  4. Humanizing – The scene breaks down stereotypes and reminds us that everyone carries pain we often don’t see.

Grieving - Breakup

“All you can do, is let it hurt” These 8 words should become a meme! It is a fundamental truth that not only is letting it hurt all we can do; it is the best thing to do!

Type: Honest

Curated into: Comprehensive

Languages: English

Sources: Californication.

Grieving - Goal or Cause

This is funny take on how we might miss doing a chore and have to grieve the loss.

Type: Funny

Curated into: Comprehensive, 6 hour

Languages: English

Sources: Gilmore Girls

Processing - Drug Habit

Description:  A funny and honest look at how difficult it is to process the complex feelings around an addiction.

Type: Funny, Tragic

Curated into Program: Comprehensive, 6 hour

Languages: English

Source: Fraser S3Ep21, 1996,  Basketball Diaries 1995