What if the pressure to be the “good one” was actually a trauma response?

In Episode 10 of Beyond the Spot, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy unpacks the origins and impacts of the “model minority” myth—a narrative that has shaped and harmed Asian American, Latinx, and immigrant communities for generations.

We explore how survival-based personas like perfectionism, overachievement, and silence are often rooted in collective trauma, assimilation pressure, and intergenerational fear. Through a Brainspotting lens, Tracy reveals how “good behavior” is not always goodness—but a nervous system seeking safety.

This episode is a call to deconstruct false proximity to whiteness, reframe internalized performance, and restore humanity across all cultures.

Whether you're a clinician, community leader, or someone healing from the myth yourself—this one’s for you.

Our emotions were never the problem—our silence was survival. In this episode, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC, Brainspotting Trainer, reclaims the rage and grief of Black, Brown, and Indigenous women—and exposes how those feelings have been pathologized under the white gaze.

From the “Angry Black Woman” trope. The “spicy Latina.” The “stoic Native.” To emotional invisibility in the therapy room, Tracy breaks down how Brainspotting supports embodied reclamation—and how healing becomes possible when the full spectrum of expression is welcomed.

She also calls in white-bodied clinicians and co-conspirators: Liberation costs comfort. Authenticity requires discomfort. And healing demands truth.

This episode is a sanctuary for grief, a song for rage, and a reckoning for those ready to feel.

Summary: For generations, BIPOC communities have been told we’re “too emotional.” Too angry. Too dramatic. Too loud. Too sensitive. Too much.

But what if our emotions were never the problem—just the truth?

In this episode of Beyond the Spot, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC, Brainspotting Trainer, invites us to reclaim the full spectrum of our emotional expression—from ancestral grief to righteous rage.

She breaks down how tropes like the “Angry Black Woman,” the “model minority,” and the “stoic Native” suppress embodied truth—and how Brainspotting helps us liberate what the nervous system never forgot.

Tracy also speaks directly to white-bodied co-conspirators about the cost of choosing justice, and how true allyship requires emotional honesty and the willingness to be uncomfortable.

Because healing doesn’t require silence. It requires space. And our bodies already know what to do with that space—if we let them.