Beyond the Spot
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.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 18
- Years Active
- 2025
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 cl…
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 …
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 Episod…
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 …
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…
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 m…
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 narrativ…
"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 wome…
"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 t…
"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…
"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 …
"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 …
"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 sp…
"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 …
"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 …
"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 i…
"The Spot and the Story"
Trailer for Ep 1. The full episode will drop Sunday, 5/18/2025 @ 4pm ET (officially).
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, So…