Episode notes
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 Tra ...
Keywords
liminality meaningidentity transitionsnervous system regulation podcastBrainspotting practitioner insightssomatic therapy podcastdecolonizing mental healthhealing in transitionnervous system in changespiritual identity shiftsliminal space psychologyembodiment and becomingtrauma-informed transformationBIPOC healing frameworks