Beyond the Spot

Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC
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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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  1. Capacity Has Consequences: How Nervous-System Growth Changes Relationships, Roles, and Tolerance

    EPISODE 32

    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 inevitably change relationships, roles, and relational tolerance. As capacity expands, old dynamics may no longer fit. What was once tolerated may become untenable. What once felt “normal” may now feel misaligned. Drawing from Brainspotting, somatic psychology, trauma science, and spiritually grounded clinical practice, this episode names the grief, rupture, and clarity that often follow genuine healing. Capacity is not neutral — it reorganizes systems. This episode is for clinicians, helpers, leaders, and individuals navigating relational shifts after deep healing work, boundary repair, or nervous-system maturation.

    28 min
  2. The Body and Belonging: From Somatic Exile to Homecoming

    EPISODE 33

    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 Gantlin-Monroy, LPC reframes belonging as a nervous-system experience rather than a social identity. This episode honors historical and contemporary sources of disconnection while inviting listeners across cultures to consider how privatized survival has shaped us all. Healing, Tracy suggests, is not about forcing closeness — but about creating safety for homecoming.

    28 min
  3. The Stories We Carry: Storytelling and Ancestral Wisdom in Mental Health

    EPISODE 34

    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 medicine. Before clinical models, before pathology, before diagnosis — there were stories. Stories that validated grief. Stories that encoded survival strategies. Stories that passed down dignity. This episode examines: How trauma disrupts narrative coherenceWhy sharing story in safe spaces restores regulationThe difference between performative vulnerability and embodied testimonyHow ancestral storytelling practices inform modern trauma workHow clinicians can integrate narrative without retraumatizationThe difference between retraumatizing retelling and regulated witnessing How ancestral stories encode resilienceWhat it means to decolonize the therapy space without rejecting clinical rigorBecause healing is not only about what happened. It is about who gets to tell the story. Until the lion tells the story, the hunter will always be the hero.

    23 min
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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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  • Creator
    Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC
  • Episodes
    39
  • Seasons
    3
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2025
  • Show Website
    Beyond the Spot