Today's guest, Erica Hornthal, AKA The Therapist Who Moves You, is a board-certified dance/movement therapist and licensed clinical professional counselor. She’s the founder and CEO of Chicago Dance Therapy and creator of the Dance Therapy Advocates Summit. She talks about how her relationship to dance and movement evolved from her childhood experience (where her skill and execution triggered perfectionism) into her adulthood where dance and movement is now an embodiment practice. She helps her clients to get to the root of their emotions, process them, and become more attuned to themselves and their body’s needs through movement. Erica talks about about how our minds can gaslight our bodies— how in society we are often conditioned to ignore our body’s cues and seek to control our body instead of getting curious about what our bodily sensations mean and how what they have to tell us is not only at the core of healing, but also a vital experience in allowing ourselves to be fully human.
