E.193 Healing Trauma Through Dance: Insights from Dance Movement Therapist Lisa Manca

Finding Your Way Through Therapy

Steve Bisson

Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Psychology, Counseling, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Honest, Substance Use, Social Sciences, Science

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Send us a text What if you could heal trauma and emotional pain through movement? Join us as dance movement therapist Lisa Manca, alongside guest co-host Courtney Romanowski, unveils the transformative power of dance therapy. Lisa brings her expertise from forensic and psychiatric settings, offering unique insights into how movement can aid personal growth and healing. We tackle the challenges mental health professionals face in intense environments like prisons, revealing the unexpected bene...

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to Finding Your Way Through Therapy, a proud member of the SightCraft Network.
0:09.4	The goal of this podcast is to demystify therapy, what can happen in therapy, and the wide array of conversations you can have in and about therapy.
0:18.8	Through personal experiences, guests will talk about therapy, their
0:22.5	experiences with it, and how psychology and therapy are present in many places in their lives,
0:28.1	with lots of authenticity and a touch of humor. Here is your host, Steve Bisson.
0:37.4	Oh, there you are. Welcome to we said la.
0:38.8	Oh, there you are.
0:40.3	Welcome to episode 193.
0:42.0	If you haven't listened to episode 192 is with Jessica Jameson.
0:45.1	We talked about movement as well as nutrition instead of a fitness and exercise.
0:51.3	So go back and listen to it.
0:52.6	We talked about food trauma too, which was really good.
0:55.1	But episode 193 is going to be with Lisa Manka,
0:58.3	with special guest co-hosts, a good friend.
1:01.5	Obviously, you've heard her before on the show,
1:03.2	Courtney Romanowski.
1:04.4	Happy to have her back.
1:05.6	I'm not going to go too long, but yeah,
1:07.4	always happy to have Courtney.
1:08.5	Courtney is coming on because Lisa is someone who is, Lisa Monka is a dance movement therapist
1:15.0	and uses other mental health techniques.
1:17.4	She works with super smart professionals who feel numb after pain and tragedy to reconnect
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