"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.

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.