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.

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?”

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.