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Beyond the SpotThe Myth of the Model Minority: How “Good Behavior” Became a Trauma ResponseWhat 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 fals...2025-07-2738 min
Beyond the Spot"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 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 he...2025-07-2020 min
Beyond the Spot"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, 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....2025-07-0634 min
Beyond the Spot"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 TrainerWhat 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...2025-06-2955 min
Beyond the Spot"From Surviving to Resonance: What Radical Attunement Looks Like"What Radical Attunement Looks Like with Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC, Brainspotting TrainerWhat 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 c...2025-06-2236 min
Beyond the Spot"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. Brainspotting is a powerful therapeutic tool—but unlike many modalities rooted in Western clinical systems, it was designed with indigenous communities in mind, given it’s inherent nature towards the dual attunement frame, relational & neurobiological. And, the uncertainty principle.In this episode, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy breaks down how Brainspotting honors the language of the peop...2025-06-1539 min
Beyond the Spot"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. Drawing from her own lived experience as an American Black therapist and her recent training in neuroscience, trauma, and psychotherapy with Dr. Damir del Monte in Poland, Tracy expands the conversation beyond social justice and into the nervous system.She explores how trauma is processed in the brain and body, how “predicti...2025-06-0843 min
Beyond the Spot"The Algorithm Isn't Your Therapist"Misinformation in Mental Health: What’s Not Being Said Beyond the Spot with Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPCIn 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,” viral trauma trends, and algorithm-approved narratives, many people are unknowingly absorbing false or harmful beliefs about what healing should look like.Tracy challenges popular myths like:“You have to talk about it to heal.”“If you’re still crying, you’re not healed.”“All therapists are trauma-informed.”...2025-06-0134 min
Beyond the Spot"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.Drawing from her clinical background in Somatic Experiencing and Brainspotting, Tracy guides us through the ways the body communicates before words arrive—and how culture offers the rituals, rhythms, and refuge that support regulation. Whether you’ve been disconnected from your body, misunderstood in therapy, or misdiagnosed entirely, this conver...2025-05-2540 min
Beyond the Spot"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, culturally attuned modality that helps your system finish what trauma interrupted.Tracy shares how Brainspotting creates space for silence, resonance, and truth—especially for those who have been misdiagnosed, dismissed, or told to “just talk about it.”This is the episode that sets the tone: honest, ground...2025-05-1837 min
Beyond the Spot"The Spot and the Story"Trailer for Ep 1. The full episode will drop Sunday, 5/18/2025 @ 4pm ET (officially). 2025-05-1600 min
Beyond the SpotThis Is Not Just A PodcastThis 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 is here to challenge mental health misinformation and honor the sacred work of healing through body, culture, and spirit.Subscribe for short, potent, weekly episodes exploring trauma, nervous system regulation, somatic healing, and culturally conscious therapy.This is where your story meets science, and your body remembers how to return home.2025-05-1500 min
Rebel TherapistA Liberated Way To Lead Groups With Tracy Gantlin-MonroyYou want to run a group program? One common question from my participants is: “What skills do I need to learn in order to facilitate a group really well?” I’ve got someone here on the pod to share her unique process of leading large groups in an expansive, liberated and trauma informed way. Introducing Tracy Gantlin-Monroy. Tracy Gantlin Monroy is a licensed professional counselor and resident therapist at Grace Community Counseling & Social Services in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a brain-wise, body therapist passionate about trauma healing. Tracy is the first Black female Brains...2023-04-1851 min
Ms. FitOne Lifestyles with Elizabeth ColenEP 117: Healed Looks Good on YouTracy Gantlin-Monroy, a Licensed Professional Counselor in Atlanta, the first Black female Brainspotting trainer in the world, discusses Brainspotting, how trauma impacts you and how it is healed. You hear her passion for healing trauma and mental health with a social justice orientation. She talks about BIPOC, what the acronym stands for and what it means. We talk about how healing shows as con-fidence, her UnBound Black Women Healing series and the re-treat. Connect with Tracy her website www.gracecommunitycounseling.com follow her IG @Monroylpc and let your healing show2023-02-0939 min