Dance Episodes

Movement as Medicine: How Dance Therapy Helps Chicagoland Process Stress with Erica Hornthal
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Nov. 4, 2025

Movement as Medicine: How Dance Therapy Helps Chicagoland Process Stress with Erica Hornthal

Licensed clinical professional counselor and board-certified dance/movement therapist Erica Hornthal (“The Therapist Who Moves You”) joins Aaron to explain how changing the way we move changes the way we feel. Recorded on November 3, 2025, the conversation grounds movement therapy in the realities of Chicagoland life: financial pressure, screen-driven immobility, community trauma in Highland Park, and heightened anxiety around recent ICE activity across the North Shore. Erica shares practical, accessible ways to regulate the nervous system, reduce anxiety, and communicate nonverbally when words are not enough.