Episodios

  • Trauma Work Belongs to All of US: Not Just Clients
    Aug 17 2025

    Healing spaces are only as safe as the nervous systems holding them.

    Healing is relational—it flows both ways.

    In Episode 13 of Beyond the Spot, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy speaks to clinicians, healers, and space holders about why trauma work belongs to all of us—not just clients.

    Through somatic wisdom, Brainspotting, and lived experience, Tracy unpacks how unprocessed trauma and unnoticed limbic countertransference can leak into the therapy room. She offers reflections for both clinicians and clients on how survival mode, silence, or avoidance can block healing—and how awareness, presence, and nervous system work open the door to resonance.

    This episode invites us to unlearn what gets in the way of presence, and to remember that safe healing spaces are built on the ongoing work of everyone in the room.

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  • Healing Is Not a Trend: What TikTok Therapists Get Wrong
    Aug 10 2025

    In this episode of Beyond the Spot, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC calls out the rise of viral therapy, toxic positivity, and “manifestation on steroids.” From TikTok therapists to Instagram healers, we explore how modern wellness culture has turned trauma recovery into content—and why that’s a problem.

    Tracy breaks down the harm of aesthetic-based healing, spiritual bypassing, and one-size-fits-all advice—and offers a return to embodied, lineage-rooted healing. Through Brainspotting, she shares how true transformation doesn’t perform. It resonates.

    If you’re tired of chasing algorithms and ready for something sacred, this episode is your invitation to return to what’s real.

    Episode 12 Reflection Invitations

    1. What does “healing” mean to me when I strip away the social media version?
      • Journal about what healing feels like in your body versus what you’ve been told it should look like.
      • Notice if any of your images or expectations come from trend culture instead of your lived truth.
    1. Where have I felt pressured to perform my healing?
      • Recall moments you posted or shared progress to prove worth or credibility.
      • How did your body feel in those moments—open, grounded, and safe, or tense, shallow-breathed, and alert?
    1. When have I been harmed by quick-fix advice?
      • Write about a time a meme, soundbite, or “manifestation” tip minimized your lived experience.
      • What truth did your nervous system know in that moment?
    1. What practices feel sacred, even if they’re not shareable or “pretty”?
      • Name three ways you’ve supported your healing that no one else has seen.
      • How do those private acts of care nourish you differently than public ones?
    1. Where am I ready to slow down?
      • Identify one area of your healing you’ve been rushing because of comparison or pressure.
      • What might happen if you gave yourself permission to linger, to feel, to be incomplete?
    1. Who in my lineage practiced healing without the internet?
      • Bring to mind ancestors or elders who embodied grounded, embodied care.
      • What rituals or values from them can you reclaim now?
    1. How does my body signal ‘enough’ when I’m consuming too much online healing content?
      • Track physical cues: fatigue, tension, irritability, shallow breathing.
      • Experiment with stopping at the first sign of overwhelm and turning toward a regulating practice.
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    34 m
  • Neurodivergence Is Not Defiance: The Pathologizing of Nonlinear Minds in Communities of Color
    Aug 3 2025

    What if the way your brain works was never the problem—but the way it’s been misunderstood?

    In Episode 11 of Beyond the Spot, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy names the racialized misdiagnosis, mislabeling, and masking of neurodivergent people—especially in Black, Brown, and immigrant communities. From ADHD to autism and everything in between, this episode explores how our brilliance was pathologized in systems designed for compliance, not care.

    Tracy breaks down the history of neurodivergence, the whitewashing of diagnostic criteria, and the harm of labeling nonlinear minds as "defiant." Through the liberatory lens of Brainspotting, she offers a new paradigm—one where difference is data, not disorder.

    If you’ve ever been called “too much,” “hard to reach,” or “not trying hard enough,” this episode is your invitation to stop apologizing for your rhythm—and start reclaiming your design.

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    41 m
  • The Myth of the Model Minority: How “Good Behavior” Became a Trauma Response
    Jul 27 2025

    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.

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    39 m
  • "Tending the Sacred Wound"
    Jul 20 2025

    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.

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    21 m
  • "Our Emotions Were Never the Problem: Reclaiming Grief, Rage, and Expression Across BIPOC Communities"
    Jul 6 2025

    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.

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    35 m
  • "Is Spirituality Missing from Therapy? A Call Back to Our Ancestors"
    Jun 29 2025

    Is Spirituality Missing from Therapy?

    A Call Back to Our Ancestors with Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC, Brainspotting Trainer

    What happens when therapy leaves spirit at the door?

    In this episode, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy challenges the Western clinical model’s detachment from the sacred and calls for a return to spiritually rooted healing. With reverence and clarity, she explores how ancestral practices, ritual, and embodied spirituality are not only valid in the therapy room—but vital.

    From Brainspotting as modern soul retrieval to breath as prayer, Tracy shares how therapists and clients alike can reconnect with what many lineages have always known: healing is sacred, not sterile.

    This episode is a call back—not just to tradition, but to the sacred memory inside the body.

    Journal Prompt Listeners

    “What did the women, elders, or spirit-keepers in your life do that brought peace—before they had access to therapy?”

    “If you could speak to your lineage today… what would your nervous system ask for?”

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    55 m
  • "From Surviving to Resonance: What Radical Attunement Looks Like"
    Jun 22 2025

    What Radical Attunement Looks Like with Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC, Brainspotting Trainer

    What if survival isn’t the goal—but the beginning?

    In this episode, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy explores what it means to move beyond surviving into resonance—where the nervous system feels safe enough to be fully seen. With deep grounding in Brainspotting, somatics, and cultural awareness, Tracy names how trauma teaches us to scan and perform, while true healing invites rest, presence, and radical attunement.

    She calls the roll across BIPOC, Jewish, Queer, and historically silenced communities, honoring the survival strategies that have carried generations. Then, she shows how Brainspotting supports the return to resonance—not as a clinical outcome, but as a birthright.

    This episode is a call to feel, a reminder that being met with presence is not a luxury—it’s liberation.

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    36 m