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.
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, overfunctioning, and the quiet burden carried by those who hold families, organizations, communities, and helping professions together.
Rather than asking us to become less strong, this conversation invites a different question: Who has been tending the gardener?
Drawing from neuroscience, clinical practice, Brainspotting praxis, and decades of accompanying people through healing, Tracy reminds us that sustainable leadership begins by recognizing that even the strongest among us require rest, nourishment, and care.
As always, this episode is an invitation—not simply to learn—but to notice.
8 Jun 2026
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 relational exile.
Drawing from years of clinical work, Brainspotting practice, and lived experience, she examines the difference between belonging and compliance, why betrayal affects the nervous system so deeply, and how healing requires discernment rather than emotional withdrawal.
This conversation invites listeners to consider an important question:
What if the wound is not simply what happened—but what should have happened and never did?
Through a trauma-informed, culturally conscious lens, Tracy offers a pathway toward rebuilding trust, reclaiming authenticity, and remembering that true belonging never requires self-abandonment.
29 Mar 2026
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 episode unpacks the role of collective care, co-regulation, and community in trauma healing, challenging the idea that healing is an individual process.
Through a Brainspotting and neuroexperiential lens, Tracy invites listeners to reconsider what the nervous system actually needs to stabilize, process, and heal.
Because sometimes the question is not:
“What’s wrong with me?”
But:
“Who is holding me?”
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