THE AFTERCARE OF BOUNDARIES: How the body heals after Truth-Telling

Beyond the Spot por Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC

Notas del episodio

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 follow ... 
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Aftercare of boundariesBrainspotting boundary workSomatic psychology boundariesPost-boundary guiltFamily estrangement healingNo contact aftermathEmotional regulation after boundariesPolyvagal Theory boundariesDecolonizing therapy boundariesIntergenerational trauma and boundaries