Episode 30 is a threshold episode — not a recap, not a reflection, but a praxis.

In this closing episode of 2025, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC, Brainspotting Trainer, names what the nervous system learned through the year’s conversations on grief, anger, boundaries, no contact, liminality, neurodivergence, culture, and liberation. Rather than offering resolutions or goals, this episode centers capacity — the ability to stay with sensation, truth, and emergence without rushing to label, fix, or perform healing.

As 2025 comes to a close, this episode offers a reflective pause — not to measure productivity, but to name what the nervous system learned to stay with.

This is not a recap of accomplishments. It is a praxis — an invitation to enter 2026 with regulation, honesty, and embodied wisdom.

Listeners are guided to reflect on what softened, what stabilized, and what no longer requires explanation in order to be honored.

Listeners are invited to carry forward what has integrated in their bodies, release what no longer serves, and enter 2026 with greater honesty, regulation, and relational integrity.

This episode is an offering of grounding, reverence, and slow integration — honoring that healing is not what we accomplished, but what we can now stay with.

In this episode, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC, offers a deep nervous-system and spiritually rooted exploration of liminal space — the transitional terrain between who we were and who we are becoming. Contrary to dominant narratives that equate uncertainty with pathology, liminality is framed as a place of sacred reorganization, meaning-making, and identity expansion.

Tracy unpacks:

• What the nervous system does in seasons of transition
• Why liminality often feels like disorientation
• How social and cultural systems mislabel becoming as instability
• The grief embedded in transformation
• How Brainspotting and somatic witnessing support identity shifts
• The spiritual dimension of wandering, waiting, and unfolding

Listeners are guided through grounded reflection as Tracy challenges the myth that we must “know” in order to move — and instead affirms that becoming is its own form of knowing.

In this episode, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC, offers a grounded, decolonized exploration of what happens after we set a boundary. While Episode 27 unpacked the complexity of no contact and relational rupture, Episode 28 moves into the healing phase that most conversations skip: aftercare.

Drawing from Polyvagal Theory, somatic psychology, intergenerational trauma, Brainspotting, and liberatory practice, Tracy names the nervous-system shifts that occur once a boundary is set — and why shame, guilt, collapse, freeze, or loneliness often surface afterward.

Through somatic invitations and Brainspotting-inspired interventions, listeners learn how to:

• regulate after relational rupture
• grieve the roles they once held
• metabolize inherited guilt
• understand the silence that follows separation
• rebuild identity from a rooted, regulated place

This episode offers language, compassion, and nervous-system clarity for anyone navigating the emotional terrain of boundary-setting and the sacred work that follows.

This is not just an episode about saying “no.” It’s about becoming yourself again afterward.

“A boundary protects you in the moment; aftercare heals the parts of you that learned to live without protection.”

Happy to share references for further engagement:

• Porges, S. (2011). The Polyvagal Theory.
• Levine, P. (1997). Waking the Tiger.
• Grand, D. (2013). Brainspotting.
• Menakem, R. (2017). My Grandmother’s Hands.
• hooks, bell. (2000). All About Love.
• Bowen, M. (1978). Family Therapy in Clinical Practice.
• Ogden, P., Minton, K., Pain, C. (2006). Trauma and the Body.