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Beyond the Spot
by Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC
Beyond the Spot: Decolonizing Healing One Brain at a Time is a bold and restorative podcast hosted by Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC, and the first Black female Brainspotting trainer in the world. Centering cultural consciousness, trauma recovery, and truth-telling in therapy, this show explores what healing looks like when we decolonize the process—one nervous system at a time. Join Tracy as she challenges mental health misinformation, uplifts body-based wisdom, and invites you to reclaim healing as a birthright. For clinicians, seekers, and anyone ready to go deeper than talk therapy.
Episodes
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The Cost of Being the Strong One When Everyone Leans on You
What does it cost to become the person everyone depends on? In this opening episode of Season 3, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy explores the hidden nervous system consequences of always being "the strong one." Together, we examine caretaking identities, leadership fatigue, compassion fatigue,...
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When Belonging Hurts: Healing After Community Wounds, Betrayal, and Exile
What happens when the places, people, and organizations that once felt like home become the source of pain? In this episode of Beyond the Spot, Tracy explores the nervous-system impact of community wounds, organizational betrayal, exclusion, church hurt, professional disappointment, and…
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It Takes a Village (Again): Reviving Collective Care for Nervous System Healing
Healing was never meant to happen in isolation. In Episode 35 of Beyond the Spot, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC, Brainspotting Trainer, explores the truth that many nervous systems are struggling not because something is wrong internally—but because something is missing relationally. This…
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The Stories We Carry: Storytelling and Ancestral Wisdom in Mental Health
We are shaped by the stories we inherit. In Episode 34 of Beyond the Spot, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC, explores how storytelling functions as nervous-system regulation, cultural preservation, and intergenerational healing. In many marginalized communities, oral tradition has always been...
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The Body and Belonging: From Somatic Exile to Homecoming
Episode 33 explores somatic exile — how disconnection from culture, community, and collective care is stored in the body — and what it takes to return. Drawing from Brainspotting, somatic psychology, ancestral wisdom, and present-day realities impacting marginalized communities, Tracy...
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Capacity Has Consequences: How Nervous-System Growth Changes Relationships, Roles, and Tolerance
Growth in nervous-system capacity is often framed as universally positive — but it comes with consequences that are rarely discussed. In Episode 32 of Beyond the Spot, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC and Brainspotting trainer explores how increased regulation, embodiment, and internal coherence...
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Staying Regulated in a Dysregulated World Why calm is not the goal — capacity is
In this episode, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC and Brainspotting trainer reframes one of the most misunderstood concepts in mental health and nervous-system work: regulation. Calm is often sold as the goal — but calm without capacity is fragile. In a world marked by collective grief, social...
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What We Practiced in 2025: A Nervous-System Praxis for Entering 2026
Episode 30 is a threshold episode — not a recap, not a reflection, but a praxis. In this closing episode of 2025, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC, Brainspotting Trainer, names what the nervous system learned through the year’s conversations on grief, anger, boundaries, no contact, liminality,...
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“The Space Between Who You Were and Who You’re Becoming”
In this episode, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC, offers a deep nervous-system and spiritually rooted exploration of liminal space — the transitional terrain between who we were and who we are becoming. Contrary to dominant narratives that equate uncertainty with pathology, liminality is framed…
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THE AFTERCARE OF BOUNDARIES: How the body heals after Truth-Telling
In this episode, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC, offers a grounded, decolonized exploration of what happens after we set a boundary. While Episode 27 unpacked the complexity of no contact and relational rupture, Episode 28 moves into the healing phase that most conversations skip: aftercare....
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“NO CONTACT: When Roles Replace Relationship and Humanity Gets Lost”
In this episode, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC, Brainspotting Trainer, reframes no contact as neither rebellion nor rejection, but a relational and nervous-system response to ruptures that were never repaired. Tracy explores how family systems operate through roles instead of relationships, how...
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“The Sacredness of Anger in a Season of Grief” A nervous-system, spiritual, and decolonized exploration of anger during collective heaviness
In this episode, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy explores the sacredness of anger during a season marked by grief, loneliness, recession, uncertainty, and collective emotional fatigue. Tracy reframes anger not as pathology, but as a nervous system signal — a spiritual truth-teller, and a decolonized…
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Healing in Community vs. Individualism: The Pathologizing of Connection Reflective Invitations
Reflective Invitations In this bonus episode, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy offers a series of embodied, soul-rooted reflective invitations designed to help listeners gently return to themselves and to the communities that hold them. Through nervous-system awareness, ancestral wisdom, and decolonized...
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Healing in Community vs. Individualism: The Pathologizing of Connection
Healing in Community vs. Individualism: The Pathologizing of Connection Beyond the Spot: Decolonizing Healing One Brain at a Time with Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC, Brainspotting Trainer Episode Summary: In this episode, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy dismantles the Western myth that healing is a solo...
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The Spiritual, Science and Soul of Coherence: Bridging HeartMath and Somatic Experiencing
The Spiritual, Science and Soul of Coherence: Bridging HeartMath and Somatic Experiencing In this bonus companion episode to Reclaiming Rhythm: The Nervous System Beyond Hustle, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy takes listeners deeper into the anatomy of coherence — the sacred intersection where science…
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The Spiritual, Science and Soul of Coherence: Bridging HeartMath and Somatic Experiencing
The Spiritual, Science and Soul of Coherence: Bridging HeartMath and Somatic Experiencing In this bonus companion episode to Reclaiming Rhythm: The Nervous System Beyond Hustle, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy takes listeners deeper into the anatomy of coherence — the sacred intersection where science…
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Reclaiming Rhythm — The Nervous System Beyond Hustle
Episode 24: Reclaiming Rhythm — The Nervous System Beyond Hustle In this powerful new episode of Beyond the Spot, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy reframes hustle culture as a trauma imprint on the nervous system — not a mindset to overcome. Tracing the historical roots of urgency, exploitation, and...
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The Soft Life Era: A Collective Reclamation Toward Liberation
Episode 22: The Soft Life Era — A Collective Reclamation Toward Liberation In this powerful new episode of Beyond the Spot, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy reframes the “soft life” movement through the lens of nervous system healing and decolonized rest; a collective reclamation of safety, rest, and...
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When the Healer Is Hurting: The Cost of Carrying Others’ Pain and How to Come Home to Yourself
In Episode 22 of Beyond the Spot, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy speaks directly to healers, clinicians, caregivers, and helpers—the ones holding the pain of others while quietly carrying their own. Through a trauma-informed, decolonized lens, Tracy explores the cost of compassion fatigue, the historical...
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Substance Use and Addiction as Coping: Addiction Reframed as Survival--Criminalization of BIPOC Communities--Somatic Approaches
Episode 21 of Beyond the Spot reframes addiction as survival—a nervous system strategy for regulation in the absence of safety and connection. Through the historical lens of colonization, systemic oppression, and the criminalization of BIPOC communities, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, LPC (host) invites...
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Episode 20: AI, Technology, and Mental Health
Episode 20 of Beyond the Spot explores the impact of technology and AI on mental health and human connection. Tracy Gantlin-Monroy reframes our digital lives through the nervous system—showing how hyperconnectivity breeds disconnection, and how embodied awareness becomes a radical act of...
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Parenting and the Nervous System: How our Unhealed Wounds Shape the Next Generation
Episode 19: Parenting and the Nervous System – How Our Unhealed Wounds Shape the Next Generation In Episode 19 of Beyond the Spot, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy explores parenting through the nervous system, revealing how unprocessed trauma shows up in family life across BIPOC and dominant-culture…
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The Loneliness Epidemic: Why Disconnection Hurts the Nervous System
Episode 18 reframes loneliness as a nervous system wound with deep historical roots—from slavery and Indigenous displacement, to migration and mass incarceration, to the isolation of women carrying households alone. Tracy Gantlin-Monroy explores how loneliness shows up across history and culture,...
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The Hustle of Healing When Self-Work Becomes Performance
In Episode 17 of Beyond the Spot, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy explores the hustle of healing—the way self-work has been co-opted into performance and productivity. Drawing from history, culture, and the wisdom of the nervous system, Tracy unpacks how hustle culture shows up in wellness practices…
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When the Therapist Needs Healing Too: Decolonizing the Myth of the Untouchable Clinician
The myth of the untouchable clinician has cost us all. In Episode 16 of Beyond the Spot, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy unpacks how therapists’ unhealed wounds—when left unattended—leak into sessions, burden clients, and reproduce systemic harm. Tracing the history of self-neglect in the helping…
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What’s Stored in the Body Is Bigger Than You (Beyond Epigenetics—Embodiment, Ancestral Memory, and Nervous System Inheritance)
The stories our bodies carry didn’t start with us. In Episode 15 of Beyond the Spot, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy explores the many ways trauma is transmitted across generations—not just through biology, but through silence, caregiving, systems, and spirit. Epigenetics explains part of the picture, but...
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The Weight of Healing Spaces Why the Therapist’s Body Matters in the Room
The Weight of Healing Spaces Why the Therapist’s Body Matters in the Room Host: Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC, Brainspotting Trainer Therapy isn’t neutral—because our bodies are not neutral. In Episode 14 of Beyond the Spot, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy explores how the therapist’s body, nervous…
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Trauma Work Belongs to All of US: Not Just Clients
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…
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Healing Is Not a Trend: What TikTok Therapists Get Wrong
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...
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Neurodivergence Is Not Defiance: The Pathologizing of Nonlinear Minds in Communities of Color
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…
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The Myth of the Model Minority: How “Good Behavior” Became a Trauma Response
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.…
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"Tending the Sacred Wound"
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…
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"Our Emotions Were Never the Problem: Reclaiming Grief, Rage, and Expression Across BIPOC Communities"
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,...
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"Is Spirituality Missing from Therapy? A Call Back to Our Ancestors"
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…
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"From Surviving to Resonance: What Radical Attunement Looks Like"
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...
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"Brainspotting in the Hood: Making Neuroscience Accessible"
Brainspotting isn’t just for private practice or clinical jargon—it belongs in the barbershop, the community clinic, the classroom, community associations, ancient healing circles, on the corner, on the catamaran, the veranda during the storm, the living room, under the tree, and the hood....
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"Neutrality Isn't Healing: Naming Whiteness in the Room"
What does it mean when therapy claims to be “neutral”? And who does that neutrality actually protect? In this episode, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC, challenges the myth of neutrality in clinical spaces—exploring how silence around whiteness, race, power, and culture often reinforces harm....
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"The Algorithm Isn't Your Therapist"
Misinformation in Mental Health: What’s Not Being Said Beyond the Spot with Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC In this episode, Tracy unpacks the rising tide of mental health misinformation and how it’s reshaping the healing landscape—for better and worse. With the rise of Instagram “therapists,”...
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"Your Nervous System Speaks In Sensation"
In Episode 2 of Beyond the Spot, Tracy explores what happens when trauma is not just remembered through thought—but through sensation, posture, stillness, and sound. This episode is an invitation to listen to the wisdom of your body and honor the role culture plays in nervous system healing....
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"The Spot and the Story"
In this first episode of Beyond the Spot, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC, lays the foundation for the journey ahead—unpacking what Brainspotting really is and why it matters. Forget the myths. This isn’t hypnosis, and it’s not just another trauma trend. It’s a body-based, neuroscience-backed,...
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"The Spot and the Story"
Trailer for Ep 1. The full episode will drop Sunday, 5/18/2025 @ 4pm ET (officially).
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This Is Not Just A Podcast
This is not just a podcast. This is a space for embodied truth. For nervous system repair. For trauma-informed liberation. Hosted by Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC—licensed professional counselor, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, and the first Black woman Brainspotting trainer—Beyond the Spot…
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Beyond the Spot: Decolonizing Healing One Brain at a Time is a bold and restorative podcast hosted by Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC, and the first Black female Brainspotting trainer in the world. Centering cultural consciousness, trauma recovery, and truth-telling in therapy, this show explores what healing looks like when we decolonize the process—one nervous system at a time.
Join Tracy as she challenges mental health misinformation, uplifts body-based wisdom, and invites you to reclaim healing as a birthright. For clinicians, seekers, and anyone ready to go deeper than talk therapy.
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